Released: November 29, 1993
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Pet Shop Boys
[Chorus]
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
[Verse 1]
The husband or the hedonist
The businessman or the communist
The artist or the showbiz creep
The lover or the nervous geek
[Pre-Chorus]
The question of identity
Is one that's always haunted me
Whoever I decide to be
Depends on who is with me
[Chorus]
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
[Verse 2]
The tactless twit putting his foot in it
Or the sensitive soul who's a role model
The urban jet setter never at home
Or the country recluse, just leave me alone
[Pre-Chorus]
Extrovert or introvert
Love is kind and love hurts
Rebellion or conformity
What is my identity?
[Chorus]
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
[Bridge]
The intellectual and bon viveur, or
The naive simpleton, so immature
The devoted son and family man
Or the wicked uncle who doesn't give a damn
[Pre-Chorus]
How often these have tempted me
The question of identity
Depends on what I'm meant to be
[Chorus]
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
[Verse 1]
The husband or the hedonist
The businessman or the communist
The artist or the showbiz creep
The lover or the nervous geek
[Pre-Chorus]
The question of identity
Is one that's always haunted me
Whoever I decide to be
Depends on who is with me
[Chorus]
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
[Verse 2]
The tactless twit putting his foot in it
Or the sensitive soul who's a role model
The urban jet setter never at home
Or the country recluse, just leave me alone
[Pre-Chorus]
Extrovert or introvert
Love is kind and love hurts
Rebellion or conformity
What is my identity?
[Chorus]
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
[Bridge]
The intellectual and bon viveur, or
The naive simpleton, so immature
The devoted son and family man
Or the wicked uncle who doesn't give a damn
[Pre-Chorus]
How often these have tempted me
The question of identity
Depends on what I'm meant to be
[Chorus]
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people
I sometimes think that I'm too many people
Too many people, too many people at once
more tracks from the album
Very: Further Listening 1992 – 1994
- Go West
- Shameless
- Liberation
- Some Speculation
- Yesterday, When I Was Mad
- One in a Million
- Absolutely Fabulous
- Girls & Boys (Live in Rio)
- I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing [7" Version]
- Confidential (Demo for Tina)
- Falling (Demo for Kylie)
- Yesterday, When I Was Mad (Single Version)
- Go West [12" Version]
- Euroboy
- Can You Forgive Her?
- I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing
- The Theatre
- Decadence
- Young Offender
- If Love Were All (Bitter Sweet)
- To Speak Is a Sin
- A Different Point of View
- Forever in Love
- Violence (Haçienda Version)
- Too Many People
- One and One Make Five
- Dreaming of the Queen
- Hey, Headmaster
- Postscript (I Believe in Ecstasy)
From the albums
- Alternative (1995)
- Very: Further Listening 1992 – 1994 (2001)
Pet Shop Boys popular songs
- West End Girls
- It’s a Sin
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
- Go West
- Always On My Mind
- Being Boring
- Suburbia
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- Domino Dancing
- The Pop Kids
- Left to My Own Devices
- Rent
- New York City Boy
- Love etc.
- Love is a Bourgeois Construct
- Burning the heather
- Dreamland
- Closer to Heaven 3
- Footsteps
- Closer To Heaven / Left To My Own Devices
- Je T’aime Moi Non Plus
- Yesterday, When I Was Mad (Coconut 1 12" Mix) [Disco 2 Version]
- In His Imagination
- Sail Away