The Shadow Wears My Face

Intro

Verse 1 I saw him in the window When the lightning cut the room Same black hat, same dead eyes Standing in the gloom He moved when I was standing still He smiled when I prayed And every time I said my name He whispered it the same

Pre-Chorus I thought I buried what I was Somewhere off the track But some things don’t stay dead, son Some things follow back

Chorus The shadow wears my face, Walks my road at night He knows every sin I hide And every wrong I like The shadow wears my face, But he don’t carry shame I thought I ran from darkness, But it learned to use my name

Verse 2 There’s a Bible on the table And a bottle by the bed One tells me I can still be saved One helps me forget I hear my mama calling Through the walls of this old place But when I turn to answer her The shadow wears my face

Pre-Chorus I gave the light a thousand lies I gave the dark the truth Now every mirror in this town Knows what I had to lose

Chorus The shadow wears my face, Walks my road at night He knows every sin I hide And every wrong I like The shadow wears my face, But he don’t carry shame I thought I ran from darkness, But it learned to use my name Use my name, Use my name, The dark learned how To use my name

Bridge Don’t ask me where the good man went, I watched him fade away He left his boots beside the door And never saw the day And if you meet him on the road, Don’t look him in the eyes That ain’t me walking toward you, That’s what I left behind The shadow wears my face, Walks my road at night He knows every sin I hide And every wrong I like The shadow wears my face, But he don’t carry shame I thought I ran from darkness, But it learned to use my name The shadow wears my face, No mercy in his hands I used to fear the man I’d be Now I know him where he stands

Outro I don’t know which one of us is real anymore. But he answers when they call my name.

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