Name: Man That I Am (Demo)
Duration: P00H03M40S
Description: I wrote this song and recorded this demo while I was in Norway in a hotel room. I was 3 1/2 years sober when I wrote it and it's sort of a look back at my various states during the years I drank. When I wrote about drinking back then, there was a feeling of self pity and darkness but with Man That I Am it's more a matter of fact statement on who I used to be.

Man That I Am (Demo)

from Demos: Light In The Window by Star Anna

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I wrote this song and recorded this demo while I was in Norway in a hotel room. I was 3 1/2 years sober when I wrote it and it's sort of a look back at my various states during the years I drank. When I wrote about drinking back then, there was a feeling of self pity and darkness but with Man That I Am it's more a matter of fact statement on who I used to be.

lyrics

God I was so ugly inside
I was looking for a good place to hide
On the edge of the bed in the morning coming down
From a cocaine high

I was begging you not to go
Cuz I didn't want to be alone
It was another in a long line of too many nights
I could get so low

Set it in stone
This man that I am
My flesh and bones
I've got blood on my hands

Mary, can I stay the night
Yeah I promise me and D won't find
But I'm one drink away from forgetting that I am
Too drunk to drive

There's a party down the street again
Yeah the party around here never ends
Now I'm the only one awake with the shakes and a smoke
And it's 6 am

Set it in stone
This man that I am
My flesh and bones
I've got blood on my hands

Well behold on the streets there's no cars
And it's long after they close the bars
And the song that I play on repeat to come down
Is The Prettiest Star

I can hear the birds start to sing
A song that is not welcoming
And the garbage truck sounds like my head getting crushed
In a rusted machine

Set it in stone
This man that I am
My flesh and bones
I've got blood on my hands

Say it ain't so
This man that I am
My flesh and bones
I've got blood on my hands

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from Demos: Light In The Window, released September 19, 2016

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