Starting Over Lyrics - The Heist [deluxe Edition] - Macklemore

One, two, now... 

Those three-plus years, I was so proud of 

Then I threw them all away for two Styrofoam cups 

The irony, everyone will think that "He lied to me" 

Made my sobriety so public, there's no fucking privacy 

If I don't talk about it then I carry a date 

A "08/10/08" that now has been changed 

And everyone that put me in some box as a saint 

That I never was, just a false prophet that never came 

And will they think that everything that I've written has all been fake? 

Or will I just take my slip to the grave? 

What the fuck are my parents gonna say? 

The success story that got his life together and changed 

And you know what pain looks like 

When you tell your dad you relapsed and you look at him directly into his face 

Deceit on your shoulders, deceivingly heavy weight 

Haven't seen tears like this on my girl in a while 

The trust that I once built's been betrayed 

But I'd rather live tellin' the truth than be judged for my mistakes 

Than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised 

I guess, I gotta get this on the page 

Feelin' sick and helpless 

Lost the compass where self is 

I know what I've gotta do, and I can't help it 

One day at a time is what they tell us 

Now I've gotta find a way to tell them 

God help 'em, yeah 

One day at a time is what they tell us 

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Now I've gotta find a way to tell them 

We fought so hard 

Now we gotta get back what we lost, lost 

I thought you'd go 

But you were with me all along, along 

And every kid that came up to me 

And said I was the music they listened to when they first got clean, now look at me 

A couple days sober, I'm fighting demons 

Back of that meeting on the East Side, shakin', tweakin' 

Hope that they don't see it, hope that no one is lookin' 

That no one recognizes that failure under that hoodie 

Just posted in the back with my hands crossed, shooken 

If they call on me I'm passin' it, if they talk to me I'm bookin' 

Out that door, but before I can make it 

Somebody stops me and says "Are you Macklemore? 

"Maybe this isn't the place or time, I just wanted to say that" 

"If it wasn't for 'Otherside' I wouldn't have made it" 

I just looked down at the ground and say "Thank you" 

She tells me she has 9 months and that she's so grateful 

Tears in her eyes lookin' like she's gonna cry, fuck 

I barely got forty-eight hours, treated like I'm some wise monk 

I want to tell her I relapsed, but I can't 

I just shake her hand and tell her "Congrats" 

Get back to my car, and I think I'm trippin', yeah 

'Cause God wrote 'Otherside', that pen was in my hand 

I'm just a flawed man, man I fucked up 

Like so many others, I just never thought I would 

I never thought I would 

Photos 

Didn't pick up the book 

Doin' it by myself didn't turn out that good 

If I can be an example of gettin' sober 

Then I can be an example of startin' over 

If I can be an example of gettin' sober 

Then I can be an example of startin' over 

We fought so hard 

Now we gotta get back what we lost, lost 

I thought you'd go 

But you were with me all along, along 

We fought so hard 

Now we gotta get back what we lost, lost