[Verse 1]

My black backpack's stuffed with broken dreams

20 bucks should get me through the week

Never said a word of discontentment

Fought it a thousand times but now

I'm leaving home

[Chorus]

Here in the shadows

I'm safe

I'm free

I've nowhere else to go but

I cannot stay where I don't belong

[Verse 2]

Two months pass by and it's getting cold

I know I'm not lost

I am just alone

But I won't cry

I won't give up

I can't go back now

Waking up is knowing who you really are

[Chorus]

Here in the shadows

I'm safe

I'm free

I've nowhere else to go but

I cannot stay where I don't belong

[Outro]

Show me the shadow where true meaning lies

So much more dismay in empty eyes