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1,2, now
[Part 1]
AmG
Those three-plus years, I was so proud of
CF
Then I threw them all away for two Styrofoam cups
AmG
The irony, everyone will think that "He lied to me"
C
Made my sobriety so public, there's no fucking privacy
AmG
If I don't talk about it then I carry a date
CF
A "08/10/08" that now has been changed
AmG
And everyone that put me in some box as a saint
C
That I never was, just a false prophet that never came
AmG
And will they think that everything that I've written has all been fake?
CF
Or will I just take my slip to the grave?
AmG
What the fuck are my parents gonna say?
C
The success story that got his life together and changed
AmG
And you know, what pain looks like
CF
When you tell your dad you relapsed and look at him directly into his face
AmG
Deceit on your shoulders, deceivingly heavy weight
C
Haven't seen tears like this on my girl in a while
AmG
The trust that I once built has been betrayed
CF
But I'd rather live telling the truth and be judged for my mistakes
AmG
Than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised
C
I guess, I gotta get this on the page
AmG
Feeling sick and helpless, lost the compass where self is
CF
I know what I've gotta do, and I can't help it
AmG
One day at a time is what they tell us
C
Now I've gotta find a way to tell them
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God help 'em, yeah
AmG
One day at a time is what they tell us
C
Now I've gotta find a way to tell them
[Hook]
AmG
We fall, so hard,
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now we gotta get back what we lost, lost
AmG
I thought you’d gone,
CFAmGC
but you were with me all along, along
[Part 2]
AmG
And every kid that came up to me
CF
And said I was the music they listened to when they first got clean
AmG
Now look at me, a couple days sober, I'm fighting demons
C
Back of that meeting on the East Side, shaking, tweaking
AmG
Hope that they don't see it, hope that no one is looking
CF
That no one recognizes that failure under that hoodie
AmG
Just posted in the back with my hands crossed, shooken
C
If they call on me I'm passin', if they talk to me I'm booking
AmG
Out that door, but before, I can make it
C
Somebody stops me and says "Are you Macklemore?
FAmG
Maybe this isn't the place or time, I just wanted to say that
C
If it wasn't for 'Otherside,' I wouldn't have made it"
AmG
I just looked down at the ground and say, "Thank you"
CF
She tells me she has nine months, and that she's so grateful
AmG
Tears in her eyes, looking like she's gonna cry, fuck
C
I barely got forty-eight hours, treated like I'm some wise monk
AmG
I want to tell her I relapsed, but I can't
CF
I just shake her hand and tell her, "Congrats"
AmG
Get back to my car, and I think I'm tripping, yeah
C
Cause God wrote "Otherside," that pen was in my hand
AmG
I'm just a flawed man, man, I fucked up
CF
Like so many others, I just never thought I would
AmG
I never thought I would, didn't pick up the book
C
Doin' it by myself didn't turn out that good
[Bridge]
AmG
If I can be an example of getting sober
CF
Then I can be an example of starting over
AmG
If I can be an example of getting sober
C
Then I can be an example of starting over
[Hook]
AmG
We fall, so hard,
CFAmGC
now we gotta get back what we lost, lost
AmG
I thought you’d gone,
CFAmGC
but you were with me all along, along
[Outro]
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