Even Shadows Have Shadows Lyrics - Singles - Eyedea

I stand alone 

Burned every bridge over the troubled water 

No longer hiding from my personality disorder 

A stronger tide is coming and I've been running 

trying to function fine with out my mind 

climbing out this fucking corner 

I was born a thorn away from the rotten petals 

A forgotten rebel crafted in the absence 

of heaven's heavy hands, 

to develop an evident level of benevolence 

so it's probably better I sold my soul to the devil 

This is a message to anyone I met that thinks they know me 

Don't pretend to understand any of the issues that I'm holding 

I was in a rush to grow up, look Mom no cuts 

Just a stomach in disgust, and the fear 

that I might go nuts this year 

If I don't slow up, I'll see you one my way 

One day this shit'll kill me but I guess that it's OK 

I've lost all fate in a world so full of hate 

I don't fucking love music I just use it to escape 

I'm caught between wanting to punch someone in the face 

and putting a bullet in my head to leave the human race 

Everything takes its toll but there's no tolls I can take 

I haven't yet found a good reason to be awake 

Introducing the corroded bones I had behind my smile 

I'm angry at the universe for the way she treats me now 

And keeps me down, stealing all my energy 

I'm feeling like my enemy, concealing my identity 

Not dealing with my tendencies 

I peel the skin and then I squeeze 

The real imprinted Hanse's disease 

Not human in this century, I'm kneeling the entity 

Who built this penitentiary, It's filthy as a centipede 

And guiltless in a sense cause he was willing to 

just let me bleed, While I wore a game face 

In 10 years don't check for me I'll be in the same place 

This planet is just an overpopulated mental hospital 

Each zombie walks around constitutes another obstacle 

So here it is I'm finally coming out my shell 

All 19 years of my life have been in conflict with myself 

I'm insecure by every facet of the existence 

From my addictions, to the conditions I choose to live in 

Who you kidding I suffer from excess anxiety 

A product of pollution in American society 

Stare into my eyes and see the hell that burns inside my mind 

and I no longer have an ego I can hide behind 

But I've been disregarding my insanity 

Every form of art isolates you from humanity 

But it's provoked against being force fed 

so Fuck education for a decade and 3 years 

of headaches from my peers 

Cause now I realize I could have learned more on my own 

They taught me how to know everything except my soul 

Which is everything I need to grow 

Everything that keeps me whole 

Everything that ever meant anything to Eyedea 

So I leave with golden hope 

to rip the beast that holds my focus 

but the fact remains the same, I'm still bound by chains 

It doesn't matter if your chain is 10 ft or 100 ft 

The fact remains the same, you're still bound by chains 

So people say I've changed, and it's harder to relate to me 

Good, I never liked you our friendship was make believe 

I'm peeling the mask back and revealing the wrath that's been 

Filling my organs drilling distorted short portions 

of morbid masochistic torture that unfortunately crafted an interest to orbit my portrait and inflict my image with disorder, 

The minutes get shorter, the walls start to close in 

Feels like the brain is hanging on but with clothes pins 

I've hidden in the darkness for too long 

I make it look all right but in the inside its so wrong 

I want life to change but I don't know if it can 

for a man or machine or whatever the fuck I am 

I stand alone burned every bridge over the trouble water 

No longer hiding from my personality disorder 

You want to die in my life then come and stay 

in madness' favorite little corner 

Cause even Shadows have Shadows 

and my secrets are eating me eagerly feeding 

I scream in my dreams Away but they keep on defeating me 

Even Shadows have Shadows 

Welcome to the dusty subconscious of an actor 

Who murdered his childhood to stop the audience's laughter 

Even Shadows have Shadows 

I'm about to break free from my fears 

When I don't like what I see 

and I can't feel what I hear 

Even Shadows have Shadows 

So don't judge my book by it's cover 

Cause my story is fucked up as any other!