There are so many questions,
there are so many doubts -
this is auto-suggestion
your spirit is giving out
If I offered my reasons
would you give me a break?
Now it's all open season,
no sense of quit and take

You see I'm not the man I was

But of I'm not the man
that you took me to be
do I fade from your dreams,
disappear from your memory?
Look at me:
if I'm not the man I was
then who was he?

There can be no returning
to the scene of the crime
For perfection you're yearning:
some romance, some foreign chime!
Is the memory explicit
under strict rule of thumb?
It was always implicit,
this character I've become

But if I'm not the man
that you took me to be
do I fade from your dreams,
disappear from your memory?
I remember it well,
I can guess what went wrong
you believe all these words
in the popular songs
but if I'm not the man
that you took me to be,
did I walk in your dreams?
I've no idea who that person could be

Look at me:
if I'm not the man I was
then who is he