1 2, now
Those 3 plus years
I was so proud of
And I threw 'em all away for 2 styrofoam cups
The irony
Everyone would think that he lied to me
I made my sobriety so public theres no fucking privacy
If I don't talk about it then I carry a date
A 08/10/08 and now it's been changed
And every one that put me in some box as a saint
That I never was
Just the false prophet that never came
And will they think that every name that I've written is all they're fake
Or will I just take my slip to the grave
Uh, 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 look him directly into his face
The seat, on your shoulders
The exceedingly 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 telling the truth
Than be judged for my mistakes
And falsely held up, getting props, loved and praised
I guess I gotta get this on the page
Feeling, sick and helpless
Lost the compass we're selfish
I know what I gotta do
And I can't help it
One day at a time is what they tell us
Now I gotta find a way to tell them
God help 'em
Yeah, one day at a time is what they tell us
Now I gotta find a way to tell them

We fall, so hard
Now we gotta get back up
We lost
Lost
I thought you'd gone
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
shaking, tweaking
Hope that they don't see it
Hope that no one is looking
That no one recognizes that failure under that hoodie
That's posted in the back with my hands crossed, shooken
If they call on me I'm passing if they talk to me I'm booking
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 look 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
Looking like she's gonna cry
Fuck, I barely got 48 hours
Treated like I'm some wise monk
I wanna 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 tripping yeah
Cuz I 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
Didn't pick up the book
Doing it by myself didn't turn out that good
If I can be an example of getting sober
Than I can be an example of starting over
If I can be an example of getting sober
Than I can be an example of starting over

We fall, so hard
Now we gotta get back up
We lost
Lost
I thought you'd gone
But you were with me all along
Along
We fall so hard
Now we gotta get back up
We lost
Lost