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Shadow As My Friend Brion' O Neil
I'm serving my sentence one day at a time
locked up here for a killing crime
the past comes back to haunt me, of what I did
back then
so, I pass my time , with my shadow as my friend
[chorus text]
[ serving my sentence with my shadow as my friend
stay of execution, innocense to defend
to make my time go by, I've got to pretend
by having my shadow as my friend]
in the afternoons I read the markings on the walls
by the ones staying here, before their final call
that final call to that slow walk to Hell,
counting each day spent waiting, in this
cold and darkened cell
[CHORUS]
as the sun shines in the window through the bars,
my shadow comes out in the early morning hours
ball bouncing games in between the stripes there
on the floor
letting my shadow win, with one hundred as the score
[CHORUS]
but, when the sun passes the hour of noon,
loneliness brings me back so long, to soon
thinking where I met my shadow for the first time,
past the spotlight at the breakdown bust for crime
then,standing in the courtroom he was always there at my feet
shaking hands with the lawyers that I meet
then my shadow hung his head with mine,
as the sentence was given, tied with the chains that bind
[chorus]
These chains are melted from the heat of doing time
holding us together as we walk the line
so here we stay, untill the bitter end;
with my shadow as my friend
[chorus] END
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