Unbidden shadows of you formed yesterday   I ran away to a room here on the bay   Interrupted life again, another new beginning   Where the silence echoes you're no longer with me      Here and now, I feel that I'm embracing freedom   Even though I may be alone, but that's okay      Through the darkness I would walk in the streets   Confessions never seemed to provide me with a release   Held me down and tried to cure me tried to give me reason   But nothing could separate this burdened mind from me      Here and now, I feel that I'm embracing freedom   Even though I may be alone, but that's okay   And looking out to a different sky will disengage me   Absence is never the answer, I know, but it serves as my shade      I do not seek and do not intend to find   A calmer ocean or a sun that never will rise   My world will never change and time will bring you to my thoughts, and   I'll move on and then forget you all over again   Moving on, I can forgive you all over again      Here and now, I feel that I'm embracing freedom   Even though I may be alone, but that's ok   And looking out onto a different sky it seems so easy   Absence is never the answer, I know, but it serves as my shade