You Know Who I Am
You Know Who I Am - meaning Summary
Love as Paradoxical Identity
This poem presents a speaker wrestling with love as both connection and separation. The narrator admits mutual inability to fully follow one another, while claiming an identity that transforms "from nothing to one." Desire alternates between tenderness and violence, asking for care, procreation, and even harm. Repeated refrains emphasize a restless, shifting self who can surrender yet remain a fractured partner to be taught how to be whole again.
Read Complete AnalysesI cannot follow you, my love You cannot follow me I am the distance you put between All of the moments that we will be You know who I am You've stared at the sun Well I am the one who loves Changing from nothing to one Sometimes I need you naked Sometimes I need you wild I need you to carry my children in And I need you to kill a child You know who I am You've stared at the sun Well I am the one who loves Changing from nothing to one If you should ever track me down I will surrender there And I will leave with you one broken man Whom I will teach you to repair You know who I am You've stared at the sun Well I am the one who loves Changing from nothing to one I cannot follow you, my love You cannot follow me I am the distance you put between All of the moments that we will be You know who I am You've stared at the sun Well I am the one who loves Changing from nothing to one
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