Shed My Skin

from Bridgeway by Blake Gifford

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Settled down, sitting alone
Waiting for all the kids to go back home
I'm a slave to the time of the day, but can't show up on time for anything
Least of all, my masters

I've tried and tried to shed my skin, I'll take it on the chin again
My fear is that I'm quick becoming elderly
But the earth maintains velocity,
A quarter of my life I'm watching walk right out the back door of an office park, of an office park

Well we're all we are and all we're ever gonna be
And it's time we learned we're seeing what we always wanted to see
We can fight it off, but it'll always come around
Leaves an exit wound without a sound

Dialed down, driving alone, begging the traffic to let me go back home
Just to scan a screen for some kind of novelty
A never-ending empty sea that's bent on monotony

Well I'll cross the land to shed my skin, oh twice more on the chin again
I'm losing all my faith in what I want to be
Still the earth maintains velocity, a life held still, a life let free
I tried so hard to cross them but I fell between, oh, I fell between

Well we're all we are and all we're ever gonna be
And it's time we learned we're seeing what we always wanted to see
We can fight it off, but it'll always come around
Leaves an exit wound without a sound
Shed my skin and drop it to the ground

Oh, if only I could shed my skin
Purge all these layers of everything I've known and everyone I've been

We're all we are and all we're ever gonna be
And it's time we learned we're seeing what we always wanted to see
We can fight it off, but it'll always come around
Leaves an exit wound without a sound
Leaves an exit wound without a sound
Shed my skin and drop it to the ground

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from Bridgeway, released March 31, 2016

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