And why can't you see its tearing away what I used to be Oh, so far from home being shallow and alone I'm a shadow of a soul Anywhere I go, anything I try Anyone I love is compromised Everyone I see, staring on back at me Why can't you let me be I don't

Today I felt a switch in my vein (Ordinary ways) I hope they get it right Today I took a walk in the clouds Used to be a shadow Now a shadow scream my name And in the daylight I could swear We’re the same But I’m just an ordinary human

Wait for something better No one behind you Watching your shadows This feeling won't go Candy talks to strangers Thinks her life's in danger No one gives a damn about her hair It's lonely down on track street She used to go by Jackie

We're in too deep We're in to deep I feel you, and you feel me Nothing left of, what used to be Shadows hide, on the wall We're done fighting, lost it all I see you, and you see me

Sweet surrender on the quayside You remember we used to run and hide In the shadow of the cargoes I take you one time And we're counting all the numbers down to the waterline Near misses on the dog leap stairways French kisses in the darkened doorways A

And everybody's peeking No one makes a sound The shadows are deceiving Paranoid and aroused As the angels put me into the ground Help me, I am breaking And my heart is barely beating And the demons they are creeping around Take me, I am sinking

Memories of shadows haunt me From the years when I was young Things that used to terrify me Are the things, that I've become Bloody bone gon' get you And to this day There's a dark moon in the clouds Misty fog in the swamp Crickets chirpin' outside my