Story Behind The Song

I moved from a small town in New Jersey to the big city of Los Angeles in the 90's. Though I moved so far away, I still had a lot to learn about myself and how life works. This is my story.

Song Description

You can blame it on the town you live in, you can blame it on the external, but wherever you go you always have to deal with your own dysfunction. Maybe the dysfunction is running away, to the big city, and finding out that you still feel the same, because the scenery has changed, but you have not. Yes, it can be frustrating.

Lyrics

Shadow on the Wall

I was a shadow on the wall in a town that time forgot
The sound of nothing happening was deafening
There were years of lost weekends
Women's faces made of stone
Like a movie with no happy ending
But I'd taken all I could, but what I stole was all the same
For the ideas of fools could keep one laughing
For I've run three thousand miles
Just to stand in the sun
To find myself with that same shadow on the wall
It's just my same shadow on the wall
There were big city games and hillsides covered with flames
There were smoke screens in every direction
There was heat rising up with a fire-like lust
Love was on extended vacation
Like a dream gone astray
I woke up on that fateful day
To find a stranger tending my garden
I'd harvest just what I could to save the remaining good for some distant rainy day
And I've run three thousand miles
Just to stand in the sun
To find myself with the same shadow on the wall
It's just my same shadow on the wall
With every move that I made
It's been the shadow's serenade that keeps me dancing to a tune that's too familiar
And wherever I go there's a song that I know
That's been following me down every highway
I heard it too many times like a broken nursery rhyme
That I'll carry from the cradle to heaven
And I've run three thousand miles
Just to stand in the sun
To find myself with the same shadow on the wall
It's just my same shadow on the wall
It's just my same shadow on the wall