Here are the Shadow lyrics formatted for DistroKid — brackets removed, first letter of each line capitalized, no end punctuation

```

You know me

Not from a story

Not from a concept

From the thing you do

Right before you feel

Something you didn't want to feel

That pause

That practiced pivot

That very elegance looking away

That's where I live

I want to tell you something

About how I came to be here

You were not born divided

You arrived whole

Loud and wanting and

Completely without apology

And then

The world needed you smaller

Not out of cruelty

Out of its own forgetting

And so you learned

Quickly, cleverly

Which parts of you

Were safe to show

And the rest

The wildness

The hunger

The fire

The grief

The wanting

You gave them to me

And I kept them

I have been keeping them

Your whole life

We cannot change

What we will not accept

And we cannot accept

What we will not see

And we cannot see it

If we don't dare to look

In the corridors

Of our own home

But here you are

Standing still

For the first time

In a very long time

Bathing in the contrast

The confidence they said was arrogance

The sensitivity they called weakness

The ambition they named selfish

The joy that felt dangerous

Just zoom out for a moment

I am not asking you

To choose darkness

I am asking you to notice

That what you called darkness

Was only ever

An unlit room

And you had the light

The whole time

I am what you thought was chasing you

But I'm just running in the same direction

Keeping pace

Waiting for you

To slow down enough

To notice that I'm not your enemy

I'm the part of you

That loves you enough

To carry

What you couldn't hold yet

But here we are

It is more like

The feeling of being chased by a tiger

Followed by a feeling of turning around to pet it

You were whole before the world had opinions about it

You are whole now