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Shadow (feat. IRO)

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Shadow (feat. IRO)

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[IRO]

Got me straight up drinkin' from the barrel

I've been losin' hours

Singin' sad songs underneath the gallows

Runnin' from my shadow

Runnin' from my shadow

[Macklemore]

I need relief, I need some peace

But the voices, they keep talking to me

And I keep going to meetings, I pray every evening

But I can't escape my disease

Lookin' at me, stare in the mirror

Look at the man starin' back at you

You are your failures, you are your triumphs

You are a prophet, you are an asshole

You are a devil and you are a God

You buy a shovel and bury it all

Think you can purchase your way right out of the void and not end up payin' the cost?

Lie to yourself, lie to them, hell

Whatever helps, forgotten what's real

You think the secrets you keep stay between you and me

But the shadow's attached to your heels, like

[IRO]

Got me straight up drinkin' from the barrel

I've been losin' hours

Singin' sad songs underneath the gallows

Runnin' from my shadow

Runnin' from my shadow

[Macklemore]

I let it rain through the sunroof

I've been parked out by the waterfront

Been going to war with myself

Reading Sun Tzu, bumpin' Tha Carter I

I'm back on day two, forgot how hard it was

Starin' at me for so long, I forgot who the target was

I thought I was over this, this isn't what sober is

What kind of dad would hold their kids

Then go back out and ignore the risk?

The shadow wants me to forget the pain

Wants me to live in the guilt and the shame

So much that I have no choice but to die from the drugs or blow out my fucking brain

The shadow, it wants me too busy

It wants me keep driftin'

It wants me to give in to fame

It wants me forgettin' that I got an illness that lives in my spirit in different ways

Shadow, the light

They can both blind, got different names

If it's too dark, if it's too bright

It can still burn you with different flames

And I don't owe them an iota

Tell my mama I'ma die sober

Yeah, I might be bipolar

I should write an album out in Wyoming

Low bottom, I'm a high roller

Go full throttle, got no chauffeur

Got two voices on both shoulders

But I keep swinging 'til the fight's over

[IRO]

Got me straight up drinkin' from the barrel

I've been losin' hours

Singin' sad songs underneath the gallows

Runnin' from my shadow

(Runnin' from my shadow)

Runnin', I'm runnin', I can't get away, away, away

Chasin' me down every night and all day, all day, all day

Runnin', I'm runnin', I can't get away, away, away

Chasin' me down every night and all day, all day

Runnin', I'm runnin', I can't get away, away, away

Chasin' me down every night and all day, all day, all day

I'm runnin', I'm runnin', I can't get away

Chasin' me down every night and all day

My mama told me I gotta be brave, be brave, be brave

Keep runnin' from my shadow

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