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Shadows on my Wall

by Luna Keller

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Andy Taylor Another superb song Luna. You are amazing. Well done!
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About Shadows on my wall

This song started as a poem written into my phone at 3am after waking up from a nightmare. It really just flew directly out of my subconscious onto the page and I fell asleep again right afterwards. It was only a couple of days later that I realized that the guitar part I had been playing around with fit the poem perfectly. So that’s how I wrote it, but what is it about?

I often find that songs that come to me like this try to tell me something I haven’t consciously realized. This one is no exception, it addresses how our perception of reality is altered by our minds insecurities and fears. I was bullied so badly I had to change schools when I was 10, and even though I have become a confident and happy person, those negative voices sometimes still take over. Depending on my emotional state they can be a passing thought or a full day of anxiety about that one thing I said. They aren’t true, they are a distorted vision of reality that always second guesses if someone really likes me, if I’m good enough… I’m not the enemy, no one is… it’s just shadows on my wall, the strangers in my hall that I create.

In one way or another we all have these voices and shadows, that we need to quiet down sometimes. Music has been such a great help for me to live through mine, and I hope that this song can be as cathartic to others as it has become to me.

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Lyrics

They told me it wasn’t over
So I kept looking over my shoulder
In this house no one is safe
My mind made me a slave

So I stare
At the closed door
I swear
I’ve never seen it before

All the shadows on my wall
All the strangers in my hall
They are ghosts I create
In my manic mind state

The walls are thin the voices loud
The streets walked by a lonely crowd
And I keep on standing still
Watching my nightmares kill

Still I stare
At the closed door
I swear
I’ve never seen it before

All the shadows on my wall
All the strangers in my hall
They are ghosts I create
In my manic mind state

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released September 23, 2021
Credits

Lyrics and music by Luna Keller

Vocals - Luna Keller

Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, recording and editing - Roger Keller

Drums - Jason Meekins

Edited and mixed by - Uli Pfannmüller - TonUP Studio

Mastered by - Andreas Balaskas - Masterlab Mastering

Cover by - Lara Gimero

Produced by Roger Keller & Uli Pfannmüller

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Luna Keller Cologne, Germany

I'm a singer-songwriterholic who loves making indie folky songs and putting my soul on paper.

Music was part of my life, I remember listening to my parents doing music when I was little and singing along getting all the lyrics wrong. I was thirteen when I picked up one of my dad's guitars and 19 when I moved out to become a full time musician. I am so grateful to be on this path! ... more

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