Faster Than My Shadow

They carve my name on wanted signs like stone

Make me a giant in a land I've never owned

Kids point at clouds and swear they see my hat

While I'm just a man who can't remember where I'm at

They build me taller with every whispered tale

Like I'm cut from thunder, not from flesh that fails

The stories run ahead, they shape the path I take

I'm chasing echoes of a man I didn't make

The crowd sees the lightning, I feel the burn

They love the flash, but I'm the one who learns

They say I'm faster than my shadow in the wind

But the shadow's what remains when the light grows thin

They want the legend, cold and made of steel

I'm just the bones that crack under the wheel

Faster than my shadow, that's the crown they give

But it weighs me down like chains I can't forgive

They cheer the myth, they feed it every fight

I'm the man who bleeds behind the spotlight

A town builds statues of the shots I never fired

Paints me as the storm they think they all desired

Strangers quote my lines from books I didn't read

Turning scars to glory, planting what I bleed

I walk through markets where they sell my face on tin

Like I'm a product, not a pulse under the skin

The myth grows roots in soil I never turned

Leaves me hollow where the real me should have burned

If I shatter the mirror, they rebuild it twice

Call it destiny, call it sacrifice

The man wants quiet, the myth wants war

I'm trapped in between, knocking at the door

Knocking at the door

They say I'm faster than my shadow in the sand

But the shadow holds the secrets of the hand

They carve the hero, they ignore the cost

I'm the flesh that fades when the legend's lost

Faster than my shadow, yeah, that's what they claim

But my shadow's the truth in this endless game

When the tales run dry and the crowds move on

I'm left with a man who was there all along