How To Kill Your Shadow

By Perry Maysun

On Reverie III

Released on April 10, 2023

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[Intro]

This—, this is a story of a paranoid man

Let his shadow hold him up, took the money out his pants

Then just ran, ran, ran, ran, ran with his hands up

Shadow got a hold of him and put him in a trance


[Chorus]

I see movies alone, every night, can't get enough of it

Fell in love with this bitch paranoia, she won't fuck the kid

Scared of my shadow, 'cause they always follow me home

Looking through the window

Pistol in the peephole

I just wanna change my name and move to Puerto Rico

But it doesn't matter, 'cause you will still follow me home

I see— I see— I see movies alone, every night, can't get enough of it

Fell in love with this bitch paranoia, she won't fuck the kid

Scarеd of my shadow, 'cause they always follow me homе

Looking through the window

Pistol in the peephole

I just wanna change my name and move to Puerto Rico

But it doesn't matter, 'cause you will still follow me home


[Verse 1]

My shadow told me, she would roll me in a Backwood

If I didn't act good

That word to the beanie that I keep on my head top

Drove a thousand miles from your ass, hit a rest stop

Then I went to sleep


[Verse 2]

Paranoia gave me roses

Got down on one knee, proposing

Perry, that ain't happen, bogus

I guess I'm just the proponent

I ain't never been this focused

Since I smoked and crashed the Focus

Running from my shadow, in a battle, and I'm hopeless


[Bridge]

This what happens when you loose your mind

I gotta stop going to movies every night


[Chorus]

I see movies alone, every night, can't get enough of it

Fell in love with this bitch paranoia, she won't fuck the kid

Scared of my shadow, 'cause they always follow me home

Looking through the window

Pistol in the peephole

I just wanna change my name and move to Puerto Rico

But it doesn't matter, 'cause you will still follow me home


[Verse 3]

Off a lot of carbon fiber, drippin' fire, chippin' tires

Sick and tired of this motherfucker followin' me home every night

Like I might, ice pick, eye sight, can't see

Might win a Grammy for rappin' like I'm fine

Give that shit to my family and die

Get a little bit of shine on the metal

Put in time for reflection, with divine intervention

I don't see no objections in this bitch

Heart racing, the fastest in this bitch (What!)


[Verse 4]

If I go crazy and die tonight

Out of spite, kill my shadow with a pipe first

Show him what it's like

Follow him 'round the snow, winter, ice

In the summer, he's a runner, but you'll catch him like a mice

Get a lil' bit of gas, on his ass, put a match to his head

Strike, flint-type (Whew)

Boom


[Outro]

You can't kill your own shadow, man

You'll never be able to kill your own shadow, man