Shadow

(C'est la prison où j'ai choisi de souffrir)

I feel cold and I can't let go
As I grip the ice, lock eyes, and turn to stone
Ships don't pass in the night, I'm Barbarossa
Won't you come a little closer now

I'm dying in this light
Pure dread with excitement
Contemplative eyes
Cataracts shrouded with enlightenment
Slice me up the middle
It seems I'm dead, just a little
Let down and hanging around
Like I'm hanging on to my potential
Neurons have fired but my thoughts aren't my own (Nah)
I'm fighting every urge just to give up but I won't
Time is going slow, still I'm running out (Running out)
Keeping my head low, keeping my eyes down

I can't see a way back in
I think that I got locked out (Locked out)
Insecure and unsure
Monochrome plague of self-doubt (Self-doubt)
Through my hand, like sand, it slips
Desperate and pathetic
I lose my grip (I lose my grip)
Eating every word I say
These city streets are hallowed ground
Pressed against the wall
I'm afraid of my own shadow now

I'm afraid of my own shadow now
I'm afraid now

Dying in this light
Pure dread with excitement
Contemplative eyes
Cataracts shrouded with enlightenment
Slice me up the middle
It seems I'm dead, just a little
Let down and hanging around
Like I'm hanging on to my potential
Neurons have fired but my thoughts aren't my own (Nah)
I'm fighting every urge just to give up but I won't
Eating every word I say
These city streets are hallowed ground
Pressed against the wall
I'm afraid of my own shadow now
(Of my own shadow... shadow... shadow...)
(Pressed against the wall, I'm afraid of my own shadow now)