7. Clean Songtext
von Ruston Kelly

Born under the thunder
Thrown into the waves
Told to rise above the clouds
To find my brighter days
I don′t remember when it happened
But I remember how it felt
Something slipped away
And I became somebody else

In the summer stars I see
Someone I used to be
Just a kid again
With the sky in my hands
Flying free


I gave up on El Dorado
So I started painting stones
Lived under a lie so big
It shrunk into my clothes
Talking to my shadow
Mumbling in the night
Covered up the windows
'Cause the light would hurt my eyes

And in notebook 23
There′s a boy I used to be
Stuck in his head
Picking bugs from his back
And dying to be free

Ejected from the jungle
Hallelujah, peace at last
Once I got out of the woods
I thought I never would look back
And I hate that it's still ringing
And I hate that it's this hard
Lurking for the very things
That scare you in the dark

In the creaking door I hear
Those shadows reappear
They try to pull me in
But now I′m tied to the wind
And I′m blowing out of here


I don't wanna be a preacher
I don′t wanna be a saint
I just came here with the word
That you can learn from all the pain
Whatever may be heaven
However you believe
Something circled in and pulled me out
And I got clean