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Shadow Lyrics
Don't matter how rotten you feel
there's a shadow in the morning
splits my head wide
memory keeps me back on my heels
like a cold wind
like a shadow it follows me round
we ride the line between tryst and crime
from the angels i seem a distant cry
but this is how i am and you are
and it's real life
I take a hold - then disappear
look for cover
helicopters circle above
we've worn your stone down to a sphere
you keep growing like a shadow
when the sun's going down
we ride the line between tryst and crime
it seems plain like day as the years go by
that this is how i am and you are
and it's real life
there's a shadow in the morning
splits my head wide
memory keeps me back on my heels
like a cold wind
like a shadow it follows me round
from the angels i seem a distant cry
but this is how i am and you are
and it's real life
look for cover
helicopters circle above
we've worn your stone down to a sphere
you keep growing like a shadow
when the sun's going down
it seems plain like day as the years go by
that this is how i am and you are
and it's real life
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great mellow song
Heard it on an ep. of [Scrubs]. Amazing song.
This song is fantastic. Great song for loosening up. I heard it on scrubs too.
awesome song
catchiest song in existence? i think so! it's sprinkled with nostalgia as i listen to it. i feel the protagonist is drowning in guilt and regret over something they've done ("memory keeps me back on my heels, like a cold wind, like a shadow follows me around") that they can't quite get over. yet he/she is beginning to accept that despite how they've felt about the situation for so long - trying to deny it or trying to hide from it, that's just life how is and that's just what they've become (and they inevitably can't change either).
I know I posted on this a long time ago, but this remains my favorite song of all time to this day.