Second Shadow

I got footprints where I never meant to leave them

Names in the walls and a thousand ways to read them

Every wrong turn got a mouth full of teeth

Every bridge I burned keeps lighting up beneath me

I keep moving like the road owes me distance

Head down, heartbeat fighting the resistance

But the faster I go, the closer it gets

Like a hand on my neck made of every regret

Streetlights bend when I’m cutting through the rain

See my old face flash in the window of a train

I don’t turn around, I already know

There’s a second set of footsteps wherever I go

I can change the road

I can change my name

But every mile I leave behind

Still knows the way

There’s a second shadow running with me

No matter how fast I go

Every light I pass just makes it longer

Stretching across the road

I keep chasing somewhere it can’t follow

Somewhere the past lets go

But every time I think I lost it

I see it move below

I left pieces in abandoned rooms

Little versions of me I never came back to

Closed every door, threw away every key

Still hear them turning in the locks behind me

And I know what they want

They want blood from the memory

Want every mistake wearing my identity

So I run through the red while the whole world sleeps

With a cemetery keeping perfect time with me

I can cross the line

I can break away

But every mile I leave behind

Still knows my face

There’s a second shadow running with me

No matter how fast I go

Every light I pass just makes it longer

Stretching across the road

I keep chasing somewhere it can’t follow

Somewhere the past lets go

But every time I think I lost it

I see it move below

RUUUN!

You can bury the evidence

You can silence the room

You can paint over everything

It still bleeds through

I CAN’T OUTRUN

WHAT I DRAG BEHIND

[SHORT SILENCE]

[Whisper]

Keep up.

There’s a second shadow running with me

But I’m not running scared anymore

Let every light I pass make it longer

Let it crawl across the floor

I spent my whole life chasing tomorrow

Like yesterday could own the road

Now if the past is coming with me

THEN LET IT WATCH ME GO

One set of footsteps ahead of me.

One behind.

This time

I know which one is mine.