The closing track from Alex G’s 2017 album, Rocket, “Guilty” deals with imposter syndrome, the belief that you don’t deserve the good things in your life, that your successes are unearned or the people in your life would not accept you if they knew the “full truth” about you.
Are you guilty?
Are you waiting to be found?
Do you think that you'd be happier
With no one else around?
Are you hiding?
Will the trial never come?
Baby, I've got news-
Is the truth trapped
Behind iron lock and key?
Have you buried all the evidence of
What you used to be?
Has the question
Become darker than the answer?
Baby, I've got news-