Name: SHADOW IN THE BASEMENT by michael whitaker
Duration: 3 min 25 s
Description: This track is about the part of yourself you lock away because you don’t know what to do with the pain. The “shadow” isn’t evil, it’s just the pieces of you that carried what your childhood self couldn’t. This is me going downstairs in my own mind and finally meeting the version of me I abandoned.

This is the story of growing up in a world where softness is punished and called weakness. I learned early to hide my sensitivity, my intuition, my heart. This track is me reclaiming those things and saying out loud that softness is not the opposite of strength, it is strength.

DON’T BE SOFT

This is the moment the “funny friend” breaks character. The smile stops working. The jokes stop landing. It’s when the people around you still see entertainment, but you feel like you’re dying inside. It’s what happens when performing becomes too heavy to carry.

WHEN THE LAUGH DIES

This track is about the part of yourself you lock away because you don’t know what to do with the pain. The “shadow” isn’t evil, it’s just the pieces of you that carried what your childhood self couldn’t. This is me going downstairs in my own mind and finally meeting the version of me I abandoned.

SHADOW IN THE BASEMENT

michael whitaker

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