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The Same Person
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Written by: Greg Graffin, Jay Bentley, Brian Baker
Released in: 1998
BPM: 159
Lyrics
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You want prosperity
For yourself, but not for me.
Somehow you just can't see
We're in this collectively.

You think that freedom is
A drastic severance
From your past relations
Just a quest for new bargains.

We're not the same person,
We're not the same person.
Don't even wanna know.
Wo-o-oh.

Don't need no good advice
Nor shoddy merchandise,
I'm the suspect device
Beaten down, unable to strike.

We're not the same person,
We're not the same person.
Don't even wanna know.
Wo-o-oh.

And the sun comes over us again,
We lament, we pine, and we rescind
And we ask for understanding,
But aren't we the stingy ones indeed
When it's needed from us in the end?

We watch the days go by,
Compete and then we die.
So few ever ask why,
But so many just abuse the design.

We're not the same person,
We're not the same person.
Don't even wanna know.
Wo-o-oh.

Versions
Version Length Release Catalog ID Country Format Year
Album version
2:49 No Substance United States 12" 2022
2:49 No Substance Europe 12" 2018
2:49 No Substance United States 12" 2018
2:49 No Substance United States 12" 2018
2:49 No Substance Europe 12" 2013
2:49 No Substance Europe 12" 2013
2:49 No Substance Europe 12" 2013
2:49 No Substance 6997-1 United States 12" 2010
2:49 No Substance 6997-2 Europe CD 2008
2:49 No Substance CPT-2007 South Korea MC 2007
2:49 No Substance ESCA-6949 Japan CD 1998
2:49 No Substance 489570-2 Australia CD 1998
2:49 No Substance United States CD 1998
2:49 No Substance 489570-8 Germany MD 1998
2:49 No Substance 83094-4 United States MC 1998
2:49 No Substance DRA 489570 4 Germany MC 1998
2:49 No Substance United States 12" 1998
2:49 No Substance Germany 12" 1998
2:49 No Substance DRA 489570 2 Germany CD 1998
2:49 No Substance 83094-2 United States CD 1998
2:49 No Substance 83094-2/4 United States CD 1998
2:49 No Substance 83094 United States 12" 1998
2:49 No Substance Spain MC 1998
2:49 No Substance Russia MC 1998
2:49 No Substance Poland MC 1998
2:49 No Substance A 006497 Bulgaria MC 1998
2:49 No Substance Turkey MC 1998
2:49 No Substance 489570-4 Indonesia MC 1998
2:49 No Substance No catalog ID United States MC 1998
2:49 No Substance 489570 2 Argentina CD 1998
2:49 No Substance South Korea CD 1998
2:49 No Substance Canada CD 1998
2:49 No Substance Canada CD 1998
2:49 No Substance Austria CD 1998
2:49 No Substance Russia CD 1998
2:49 No Substance United States CD 1998
2:49 No Substance DRA 489570 9 Germany CD 1998
2:49 No Substance 83094-2 Israel CD 1998
2:49 No Substance 758.443/2-489570 Brazil CD 1998
Not specified
2:49 The New America ZK07115 Russia CD 2000
2:49 No Substance 83094-2P United States CD 1998
2:49 No Substance SAMPCD 4959 Germany CD 1998
2:49 No Substance tbd United States CD 1998
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Henchman

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07/31/2013 at 02:00
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Posts: 649
07/10/2010 at 17:23
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06/12/2008 at 21:45
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12/27/2004 at 02:55
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