I tied my shadow to the wall
You say that don't make sense at all
But I like the imagery
And it sounded good to me
Some things are hard to say with words
You can't be sure what people heard
But what I really want to say
I don't like feeling this way
[Chorus]
But I'll do it how I want
I'm the one writing this song
And you can all just kiss my ass
I'm sorry for what I just said
It's not your fault it's this pounding in my head
Trying to come up with clever lines
Get past all the stupid rhymes
This is harder than it looks
You can't learn it from a book
Even Dylan had some duds
And I've spent too long on this one
[Chorus]
I kind of liked the groove
And all the attitude
Is it as good as Wagon Wheel?
I tied my shadow to the wall
Now it don't follow me at all
But it's still so hard to see
Am I the one I want to be
The promise of the past
It all went by so fast
I kept ignoring all the signs
And now I'm running out of time
[Chorus]
I'm still looking for the key
Life's a gift but it's not free
Sometimes it'd hard to see the truth
Past all the tattooed memories
And all the things I thought I believed
Trying to understand it all
So I wrote "I tied my shadow to the wall"
