Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Starting Over, artist - Macklemore. Date of issue: 08.10.2012
Age restrictions: 18+
Song language: English
Starting Over |
| Those 3 plus years, I was so proud of |
| And I threw 'em all away for 2 Styrofoam cups |
| The irony, everyone will think that he lied to me |
| Made my sobriety so public, there’s no fuckin' privacy |
| If I don’t talk about it then I carry a date |
| 08−10−08, that now has been changed |
| And everyone that put me in some box as a saint |
| That I never was, just a false prophet that never came |
| And will they think that everything that I’ve written has all been fake |
| Or will I just take my slip to the grave? |
| Uh, what the fuck are my parents gonna say? |
| The success story that got his life together and changed |
| And you know what pain looks like |
| When you tell your dad you relapsed then look him directly into his face |
| Deceit on your shoulders, deceivingly heavy weight |
| Haven’t seen tears like this on my girl |
| In a while the trust that I once built’s been betrayed |
| But I’d rather live telling the truth and be judged for my mistakes |
| Than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised |
| I guess I gotta get this on the page |
| Feeling sick and helpless, lost the compass where self is |
| I know what I gotta do and I can’t help it |
| One day at a time is what they tell us |
| Now I gotta find a way to tell them |
| God help 'em |
| Yeah, one day at a time is what they tell us |
| Now I gotta find a way to tell them |
| We fall so hard |
| Now we gotta get back what we lost… lost |
| I thought you’d go |
| But you were with me all along… along |
| And every kid that came up to me |
| And said I was the music they listened to when they first got clean |
| Now look at me, a couple days sober |
| I’m fighting demons |
| Back of that meeting on the east side |
| Shaking tweakin', hope that they don’t see it |
| Hope that no one is looking |
| That no one recognizes that failure under that hoodie |
| Was posted in the back with my hands crossed shooken |
| If they call on me I’m passing, if they talk to me I’m looking at the door |
| But before I can make it somebody stops me and says, «Are you Macklemore? |
| Maybe this isn’t the place or time |
| I just wanted to say that if it wasn’t for «Otherside"I wouldn’t have made it.» |
| I just looked down at the ground and say, «Thank you.» |
| She tells me she has 9 months and that she’s so grateful |
| Tears in her eyes, looking like she’s gonna cry, fuck |
| I barely got 48 hours, treated like I’m some wise monk |
| I wanna tell her I relapsed but I can’t |
| I just shake her hand and tell her congrats |
| Get back to my car and I think I’m tripping, yeah |
| 'Cause God wrote «Otherside», that pen was in my hand |
| I’m just a flawed man, man I fucked up up |
| Like so many others I just never thought I would |
| I never thought I would, didn’t pick up the book |
| Doin' it by myself, didn’t turn out that good |
| If I can be an example of getting sober |
| Then I can be an example of starting over |
| If I can be an example of getting sober |
| Then I can be an example of starting over |
| We fall so hard |
| Now we gotta get back what we lost… lost |
| I thought you’d go |
| But you were with me all along… along |
| We fall so hard |
| Now we gotta get back what we lost… lost |