Chasing Shadows - Bernz

Shadows

Chasing shadows

Or are they chasing me

Been at this for a minute, resurrected more than once

Late nights to early mornings, eyes burn from lack of slum —

Ber, I make 'em slur under a cloud of smoke and herb

And social lubricants, used to then lubricate their

Sneak in some sleep when no ones looking

Behind the stage while symbols crash, and random club I’m booked in

I’m out performing for my kind, and they shoving and pushing

I’m out surfing over their minds and they providing cushion… Search

I don’t get mad if I’m overlooked in their mags

See, the race’s longer than all these blogger’s half-assed paragraphs

So will they last?

I don’t know

The beast is so hungry, we all liable to go

Since I was just a child, I would beg for this shit out loud

And keep my guardian angels up, mental masturbating for hours

Try to master as many styles as I can before my goodbyes

At least that’s what I say when I wonder if I wasted my life

Shadows

Chasing shadows

Or are they chasing me

If I turn the lights down, I can see you disappear

But when they come back on I’m positive you start to interfere

And I’m addicted to the flicker, the flash and the liquor

But every time I light it up, the shadow gets thicker

Despite our best attempts to rid ourselves of past mistakes

I find me chasing shadows that I’m scared to face

So now my family’s facing things that could leave some disgrace

After a life of fairy tales, I’m now lying awake

Do you believe in American dreams, hittin' this country to get a degree

Workin' few jobs just to make a tuition, then pick up another to buy food to eat

Schooled in the ways of the capital taste, go get your money or get out the way

Step over bodies as if it’s a hobby, until they decide that this boy’s out of

place

Then they take all your things

Hope you got money cause these boys hope that the people don’t win

They want us to all stay asleep on our feet so they keep trying to buy these

new things

I guess that they think that we dumb

I guess that they think that we probably too busy, in love with the shadow we

made under the sun

Shadows

Chasing shadows

Or are they chasing me

Or are they chasing me (x2)