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Living In Your Shadow

from Brain On Tap by The Pandemics

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Living In Your Shadow. A song about idolizing a relationship, even after things have gone sour. Also the recovery from said relationship after taking off once's rose colored glasses.

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Its been two years
Since we parted ways
Not a month's gone by
That I don't miss those days
Back when we would sit and play
Now things don't feel the same...

Way back when,
We were young,
Things were great
And Life was fun
But after six years on the run
I was content, but you were numb

To my affections and my needs
And all my selfless deeds
It was someplace you had to be
Just running out the clock

For one more second, one more song
Why couldn't we get along?
It's not my fault!
I gave you all I got!!!

A few missed calls,
A lack of wings,
Time spent waiting on the phone to ring
While other's wished to hear angels sing
I just longed to hear your voice...

To hold you close
To see your face
To feel the warmth of your embrace
But now these thoughts seem out of place
All silenced but not by choice...

It left me hardened and jaded
All fucked up, under appreciated
You wasted all my time!
You still occupy my thoughts!

Your accomplishments and fame
Keep putting me to shame...
Spinning me round,
Like some kind of top...

Right now!
I need to believe
Somehow!
This is a fantasy
I feel!
I'm bursting at the seams!
I blister and I bleed!

Right now!
I just need a friend
Just one
Who can help me mend
This heart!
Whose gonna be there til the end!

Two more years pass
Since you been gone
I finally feel like I am moving on
My heart it sings no more sad songs
About when I saw you last

I've left the house
And gone on dates
But something makes me hesitate
I'm not sure if you can relate
I'm still tethered to our past...

It comes out of nowhere
Something sets me off
I wonder if you still care
about me the way
That I care about you...

You know I heard through the vine
That you're doing fine
But I've hit a wall
A wall I can't break through...

There was a time...
That I saw something in you...
But your memory...
It blocked out the truth...
And at the time I couldn't see
Exactly what had been done to me
You watched me scream,
You watched me bleed,
Well Fuck Off!, Now you can watch me leave!

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from Brain On Tap, released July 27, 2012
Written by Chris Malone & The Pandemics
Lyrics by Chris Malone
Arranged by Brian Kennedy

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