The Shadow Boxer Lyrics

All your life

Head hanging like a shadowy day

You keep on walking in the dead of night

Soaking in the freezing rain

Got the ticket for the perfect ride

Don't do nothing but to clean your face

It ain't nothing when it's worth it's price

You're only given what you take a way from this

For all your life and all the things you know you're soon to see

If you're not the one you want then tell me who you're supposed to be?

And with everything you have is it okay to settle down?

While you figure out the rules and how the melody rings out

And you don't want to have another of the years that let you down

And you've been giving in to wanting to escape beneath the doubt

With your wishes to be broken by the roots above the ground

Being haunted as the music plays wherever that you're bound

Feels so strange

Answered questions only asking more

And so we all grow up in different ways

It ain't unpleasant but you can't ignore

The simple things that never crossed your mind

Come together from an altered state

You try to leave them and though try you might

The conversations always to remain

And you don't want to be protected with your fortunes wrapped around

But you can't stand unless the passerby will come and help you out

And it's a part of your decisions to be hanging by a thread

As the voices wind the windmill that you hear inside your head

In a little while the problems that you had will make you laugh

As you're reminded that your problems weren't the product of your past

And if you turn to stand and walk away from everything you know

With the voices raging in your ears wherever that you go