My Shadow Has Another Life

[Intro: reversed guitar, whispered doubles]
(me-me, not-me)
[808 heartbeat]

[Verse 1: melancholic melodic rap]
My shadow walks a little out of time
Takes the exits that I leave behind
He kisses strangers, climbs forbidden hills
Lives a thousand lives while I stand still
(oh-oh, look at him go)

[Pre-Chorus: layered ascending thirds]
But when I turn to face the sun
He fades until there's only one

[Chorus: soaring emotional harmonies]
Oh, my shadow has another life
Every dream I couldn't fit in mine
I love the hands that hold me here
But envy everything that disappears
(ah-ah-ah, somewhere else!)
I wouldn't trade the love I've known
So why can't I leave that ghost alone?

[Drop: chopped vocal duet, 808 slides]
(me-me, him-him)
(stay-go, stay-go!)
[Syncopated breakbeat]

[Bridge: fragile falsetto]
(He wants your life) I want his too
(He envies you) Could that be true?
Perhaps we're both convinced somehow
The other knows a better now

[Final Hook: octave harmonies]
I chase the life he gets to live
He chases everything I'd give
(two lives, one light)

[Outro: fading whisper]
We both think the other won.