Running From My Shadow

F#m

[Verse]
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Wanna know where I don’t go
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When it goes from OK to a oh no
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When it goes from hi five to a low blow
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When it goes from all five to a solo
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Lemme tell you what you don’t know
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I been down / so low / I was
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Looking for something but denying that I found it
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There’s an elephant sitting in the room
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And I can’t find another way to tiptoe around it
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I been doing greater good for a long time
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But I can’t find any other way to give now
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I been putting myself on the sideline
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And it’s been time so I’m saying can I live now
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There are times when I kick myself
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Say I’m not sick but I can’t get well
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Say I got this while I chase my tail
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As if they can’t tell

[Chorus]
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I'm running from my shadow
 E                                B                     Bm
Running from my shadow but it’s still there chasing me down
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I’ll never win the battle
 E                           B                      Bm
Never win the battle and I should have known it by now
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Just when I think I’ve found the end / ohhh
                 B             Bm
I’m going back around again / ohhh
                  F#m
Running from my shadow
 E                                B                     Bm
Running from my shadow but it’s still there chasing me down

[Verse]
F#m
Light side’s got a dark side to it
 E
Daytime flows into night like fluid
     B
The yin and the yang with a curved line through it
     Bm
And none of it’s illuminating why I do it

F#m
 Maybe I didn’t want to chase what was not right
E
 Maybe I didn’t want to face you were offsides
B
 Thinking I was far away from a crossed line
Bm
 But I was giving soft praise to a hard lie
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 There are things that you say and you don’t say
E
 My tongue’s gotten real tired of me biting it
B
 ‘Cause I keep on following the wrong way
Bm
 Time’s come and I can’t keep denying it
F#m
 There are times when I kick myself
 E
Say I’m not sick but I can’t get well
 B
Say I got this while I chase my tail
        Bm
As if they can’t tell

[Chorus]
                      F#m
I'm running from my shadow
 E                                B                     Bm
Running from my shadow but it’s still there chasing me down
                    F#m
I’ll never win the battle
 E                           B                      Bm
Never win the battle and I should have known it by now
                        F#m             E
Just when I think I’ve found the end / ohhh
                 B             Bm
I’m going back around again / ohhh
                  F#m
Running from my shadow
 E                                B                     Bm
Running from my shadow but it’s still there chasing me down

[Bridge]
F#m                  E                     B
  I love you but I know / I gotta let you go
                  Bm                               F#m
Dancing with the devil cause she’s all I’ve ever known
            E                               B
Wanted to pretend / That this time was the end
             Bm                         F#m
Sorry but I guess I gotta let you down again
F#m
Again
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Again
N.C.
Running from my shadow now my shadow is my only friend

[Outro]
F#m E B Bm
                  F#m  E
Running from my shadow
           B                     Bm
But it’s still there chasing me down

F#m E B Bm
                  F#m
Running from my shadow
 E                                B                     Bm
Running from my shadow but it’s still there chasing me down