my black backpack's stuffed with broken dreams
20 bucks should get me through the week
never said a word of discontentment
fought it a thousand times but now
i'm leaving home

[chorus]
here in the shadows
i'm safe
i'm free
i've nowhere else to go but
i cannot stay where i don't belong

two months pass by and it's getting cold
i know i'm not lost
i am just alone
but i won't cry
i won't give up
i can't go back now
waking up is knowing who you really are

[chorus 2x]

show me the shadow where true meaning lies
so much more is made in empty ey