My disguise

"My disguise" is a song by LorD and Master. This song explores the idea of the duality of being a queer person and the need to pretend to be cis-het in less accepting circumstances.

Lyrics

The way I talk and The way I walk
They're my disguise
They don't betray
What I want to say 
Or what's behind my eyes

You don't know what l'm thinking
There's no behaviour linking 
My thoughts and my desires

Thad to learn from an early age 
To step back and disengage
I didn't want to be afraid
Any more

And by the time I was twenty-three 
I had lost my identity
Unable to discern between me 
And the me I needed to be

From a hereonormative
Point of view
I could pass as straight
But in the great big scheme
Why was I so keen To display that state

You don't know what I'm thinking
There's no behaviour linking 
My thoughts and my desires

I had to learn from an early age 
To step back and disengage
I didn't want to be afraid
Any more

And by the time I was twenty-three 
I had lost my identity
Unable to discern between me 
And the me I needed to be

You don't know what I'm thinking
There's no behaviour linking 
My thoughts and my desires

I had to learn from an early age 
To step back and disengage
I didn't want to be afraid
Any more

And by the time I was twenty-three 
I had lost my identity
Unable to discern between me 
And the me I needed to be

Versions

• Appears on Queer.

Personnel

• Written, produced and performed by Daniel Bailey-Graham.