Laura Marling performs The Shadows at Alexandra Palace for 6 Music Festival 2021. Visit the 6 Music Festival 2021 website for more videos and photos www.bbc.co.uk/events/en89hn
Someone was sleeping while she did her leaving Cowards go in the night I lay there sleeping, and how could I blame her? Who has the nerve to fight? She knows, now, she knows now Nothing will tear me apart She lives in the shadows Of my heart I tried to persuade her, in vain, of course, later That's something that I deny I thought it was better to say in my letter That I never even tried She knows, of course, she knows That one day she'll tear me apart She lives in the shadows Of my heart She's leaving, she's leaving My altar, she's leaving Where will I go to pray? I want her, I need her I long to believe her Words that she will not say She knows, of course, I knew That one day she'd tear me apart She lives in the shadows Of my heart She's leaving, she's leaving My altar, she's leaving Where will I go to hide? She lives in the shadows Of my mind
During one of my five escape attempts, while I was waiting for a bus at the train stop around the corner from my little prison, two young boys started running around me, yelling "she's leaving, she's leaving!" And nobody in that nightmare of a town ever was willing to say even a word about wtf was going on and everyone always denied ever having heard of anyone else there. A town of sadists, cowards and hurting lost souls, where everyone was afraid of even their own shadow.
