Alec Benjamin
Shadow of Mine lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2022
- Genre
- Pop, Indie Pop
- Length
- 2:46
Booked a trip to Texas, thought I'd start again
Switched all my addresses and ghosted all my friends
Thought I could escape what I could not transcend
Found myself back in the same old place again
Everywhere I go, my shadow, it follows behind
Doesn't matter where I travel, my shadow, it finds me
Something that I've come to realize after all this time
I can't escape my shadow, I can't escape my shadow
Maybe I'm the nexus, the common thread that binds
The problems in my head and the world that lives outside
I thought I could escape, but it's fate I've come to find
My devil is the devil that's inside
Everywhere I go, my shadow, it follows behind
Doesn't matter where I travel, my shadow, it finds me
Something that I've come to realize after all this time
I can't escape my shadow, I can't escape my shadow
It won't ever let me go
It goes everywhere I go
It won't ever let me go
This shadow, this shadow of mine (shadow of mine)
We grapple, we battle, but we
Are shackled for eternity
We grapple, we battle
We're shackled, we're shackled, we're shackled
Everywhere I go, my shadow, it follows behind
Doesn't matter where I travel, my shadow, it finds me
Something that I've come to realize after all this time
I can't escape my shadow, I can't escape my shadow
It won't ever let me go
It goes everywhere I go
It won't ever let me go
This shadow, this shadow of mine (shadow of mine)
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Key vocabulary
- binds
- ties; fastensC1
- back
- toward the rearA1
- behind
- at the back ofA1
- booked
- reserved; scheduledA1
- come
- arriveA1
- common
- seen oftenA1
- escape
- get free from dangerB1
- ghosted
- ignored after contactB1
- switched
- changed to another thingB1
- everywhere
- in all placesA2
About this song
Alec Benjamin is an American singer-songwriter known for earnest, mellow pop that blends folk-pop songwriting with electronic production. Born in Arizona, he rose to prominence with “Let Me Down Slowly” featuring Alessia Cara and later released These Two Windows in 2020 and “Demons” in 2020.