Imposter syndrome also called perceived fraudulence

Involves feelings of self-doubt and personal incompetence when comparing oneself to their peers

These often illusory perceptions persist despite your education experience and accomplishments

To counter these feelings one might end up working harder and holding themselves to ever higher standards

I don't want attention but I need the recognition

Because every self versus other just highlights what I'm missing

Like there's been some kind of system and I never got admission

One that doesn't care for wisdom only focused on commission

Sounded more like prison just to get to some position

Something better something greener something that matched with my ambition

So I had to pay tuition

And make money my only mission

So I could tell any and all the opposition

I got that fuck you money

But now I'm like fuck you money

Guess I caught a break fast

Just to sing for my supper

Because the less I feel like last is the more that I suffer

I don't want a race I want to set the pace

Trying to face my problems but my problem is my face

If I only look to use it to keep track of where I place

And look up and down but not around only seeing the mistakes

Like where's that thirty under thirty?

Where's the plays?

Where's front page?

Where's the fans and the stage?

Like yeah I'm paid yeah I get laid yeah I got it made

But we're fighting battles all the same

To each our own separate strain

We're all equal in our pain

Like why can't I pay my damn student loans?

Putting interest over principles that I'm forgetting what I've known

Am I just gonna keep chasing my youth?

Is it gonna be voices back or just me in the booth?

When am I gonna stop feeling so hopeless?

When am I gonna make that magnum that opus?

Because they been dreaming while I been lucid

They been losing I've been losing losing

They been rusing I've been musing

But still I don't know who Peter's choosing

The choir of my past selves sings to me

You're an instrument for the symphony

But you've been watching way too much TV

But you've been scrolling endlessly

The choir of my past selves sings to me

You're an instrument for the symphony

But you've been ruled by jealousy

But you've forgotten self-empathy

Comparison is the thief of joy

I've had it with these status ploys

Once I have x then I can enjoy?

My life is more than what I employ

The holes before us make us porous

So we flow just like a torus

If we're all one they can't ignore us

So I guess I'll join the chorus

I gotta find my voice

The signal is the noise

My success is just a choice

I will never fill my void

I gotta find my voice

The signal is the noise

My success is just a choice

I will never fill my void

You're an instrument for the symphony

I'll never fill my void never fill my void

You're an instrument for the symphony

I'll never fill my void never fill my void

To thine own self always be true

Giants exist to shoulder you

They think they're imposters too

We all don't know what to say or do

The truth is always misconstrued

So chase the sight not the view

I find my truth on the map I drew

I'm not held down by peer review

I'm a visionary surrounded by the blind

Like the canary that never made it from the mine

I try to get it out but these thoughts are all still mine

I can't confine or define the design of the divine

We're all steady sipping from the same eternal fountain

So there's no competition it's why I'm aiming for the mountain

Once I make it you'll ask how'd I ever doubt him

But there's no it so we need to stop the counting

And just be

The symphony

There's no me just the we

So just be

The symphony

There's no me just the we