Shadow (From Songland)

[00:06.98]Got me straight up drinkin' from the barrel
[00:10.32]I've been losin' hours
[00:14.47]Singin' sad songs underneath the gallows
[00:17.79]Runnin' from my shadow
[00:21.61]Runnin' from my shadow
[00:22.43]I need relief I need some peace
[00:24.05]But the voices they keep talking to me
[00:25.91]And I keep going to meetings I pray every evening
[00:27.88]But I can't escape my disease
[00:29.76]Lookin' at me stare in the mirror
[00:31.35]Look at the man starin' back at you
[00:33.22]You are your failures you are your triumphs
[00:35.10]You are a prophet you are an a*shole
[00:36.95]You are a devil and you are a god
[00:39.06]You buy a shovel and bury it all
[00:40.81]Think you can purchase your way right out of the void
[00:42.89]And not end up payin' the cost
[00:44.43]Lie to yourself lie to them hell
[00:46.33]Whatever helps forgotten what's real
[00:48.24]You think the secrets you keep stay between you and me
[00:50.31]But the shadow's attached to your heels like
[00:52.18]Got me straight up drinkin' from the barrel
[00:55.27]I've been losin' hours
[00:59.49]Singin' sad songs underneath the gallows
[01:02.74]Runnin' from my shadow
[01:06.55]Runnin' from my shadow
[01:07.99]I let it rain through the sunroof
[01:09.68]I've been parked out by the waterfront
[01:11.48]Been going to war with myself
[01:13.04]Reading Sun Tzu bumpin' Tha Carter I
[01:15.90]I'm back on day two forgot how hard it was
[01:19.27]Starin' at me for so long I forgot who the target was
[01:23.26]I thought I was over this this isn't what sober is
[01:26.75]What kind of dad would hold their kids
[01:28.64]Then go back out and ignore the risk
[01:30.31]The shadow wants me to forget the pain
[01:32.45]Wants me to live in the guilt and the shame
[01:34.16]So much that I have no choice
[01:35.31]But to die from the drugs or blow out my f**king brain
[01:37.86]The shadow it wants me too busy
[01:39.21]It wants me keep driftin'
[01:40.16]It wants me to give in to fame
[01:41.50]It wants me forgettin' that I got an illness
[01:43.37]That lives in my spirit in different ways
[01:45.44]Shadow the light
[01:47.34]They can both blind got different names
[01:49.10]If it's too dark if it's too bright
[01:51.04]It can still burn you with different flames
[01:52.95]And I don't owe them an iota
[01:54.78]Tell my mama I'ma die sober
[01:56.67]Yeah I might be bipolar
[01:58.30]I should write an album out in Wyoming
[02:00.49]Low bottom I'm a high roller
[02:02.14]Go full throttle got no chauffeur
[02:03.96]Got two voices on both shoulders
[02:05.82]But I keep swinging 'til the fight's over
[02:07.34]Got me straight up drinkin' from the barrel
[02:10.35]I've been losin' hours
[02:14.52]Singin' sad songs underneath the gallows
[02:17.80]Runnin' from my shadow
[02:21.49]Runnin' from my shadow
[02:22.63]Runnin' I'm runnin' I can't get away away away
[02:26.19]Chasin' me down every night and all day all day all day
[02:29.91]Runnin' I'm runnin' I can't get away away away
[02:33.67]Chasin' me down every night and all day all day
[02:37.47]Runnin' I'm runnin' I can't get away away away
[02:41.17]Chasin' me down every night and all day all day all day
[02:44.96]I'm runnin' I'm runnin' I can't get away
[02:46.75]Chasin' me down every night and all day
[02:48.67]My mama told me I gotta be brave be brave
[02:51.35]Keep runnin' from my shadow