An episode about embracing our shadows rather than running away from the parts of ourselves we don’t like, are ashamed of or just plain think are shitty!
In this week’s episode of Getting Naked With Nate:
- Do we create the prisons we find ourselves in?
- Is the world as it is, or as we see it to be?
- And so much more…
Quick note: leave a review on iTunes so more people can find and enjoy Getting Naked With Nate.
Links, tweetable quotes and other things
- Watch the raw, unedited facebook live video recording of this episode!
- Tune in on Facebook for livestreamed podcast recordings
- New information about the story of the grandfather and the wolves (which I probably won’t be telling again)
Lyrics
It’s hard to open up my eyes
When I feel like I’ve been blind
All of my days, now I’m
Wandering through the haze
And the world is looks so crazy
Maybe that’s just me
Maybe it’s just meWe all find our secrets
Patient in the shadows
Right there where we left them waiting
No matter how far we run
They run right beside us
Our demons know our names
Better than anyoneSee me trapped within this construct
Beating at the locked up door and
Gripped tight deep within my fist
Is the key to all I’ve missed
That the pain is just the teacher
And the cage is just a mythWe all find our secrets
Patient in the shadows
Right there where we left them waiting
No matter how far we run
They run right beside us
Our demons know our names
Better than anyoneI spend oh so many hours
Building up and giving power
To the worst I can imagine lives in me
And now oh to my surprise
When the ghost as me disguised
Is the best at breaking everything
Everything, everything I dream.You who presume you can stay dry by
Dodging all the raindrops falling
Thick, try lifting up your tongue
To the rain not just the sun
Nothing quite so simple
Was ever so much funWe all find our secrets
Patient in the shadows
Right there where we left them waiting
No matter how far we run
They run right beside us
Our demons know our names
Better than anyone
It’s your turn, dear listener
What do you think? Do you have anything to add? Share your ideas, feelings, questions or whatever you like in the comments below!
This episode and all my creations are made possible thank to the on-going support of the community of Nateives on Patreon, thank you!
Please support this podcast by pledging now at nakedwithnate.com/tribe
Special thanks go to the folk below, who pledge $15+ a month so I can focus on creating full-time:
Until next week!
Your troubadour
Nate
PS: Thanks for listening, and please remember to leave a review on iTunes ?+?+?= ?
Featured photo by Lorna Scubelek on Unsplash
This song is on my Spotify playlists. I absolutely adore the lyrics! I definitely benefited from the second listen, so here’s my perspective….
We can never escape ourselves. We shower with ourselves. We sleep with ourselves. We spend time alone with ourselves. So rather than be our own worst enemy, we should perhaps confront our demons and make them yield to us instead of us yielding to them.
Perhaps in doing so, we will gain a confidence within ourselves for having confronted our shadows…
Just a thought…
Brilliantly written, by the way