Shadows I Keep Within

I wake up with concrete lungs, can't pull in the air

The monster paints graffiti of my doubts everywhere

I scroll 'til my fingers bleed, searching for a cure

But the silence in the static makes me less secure

My shadow keeps receipts of every time I've failed

It whispers like a prophet: "your ship already sailed."

I laugh in conversations, but the mask won't stick

Behind my teeth I'm screaming just to feel legit

Do you hear me?

Do you hear me?

There's a monster under my skin

It's waiting for the moment I let it in

There's a monster under my skin

And it grows every time I let the silence win

The mirror bends my face into a twisted joke

Every compliment I get just feels like second smoke

I patch myself with caffeine, cheap advice, and lies

But the seams keep tearing where the daylight dies

I tried to build a fortress out of songs I wrote

But the cracks in the lyrics let the venom float

So I spit my confession in these bars I bleed

If the monster's gonna kill me, it'll hear me scream

Hear me

Do you hear me?

Can you hear me?

There's a monster under my skin

It's waiting for the moment I let it in

There's a monster under my skin

And it grows every time I let the silence win

Parasite, you won't own me

You parasite, you'll never break me

Do you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Do you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Do you hear me?

Do you hear me?

Can you hear me?

There's a monster under my skin

It's waiting for the moment I let it in

There's a monster under my skin

And it grows every time I let the silence win

There's a monster under my skin

There's a monster under my skin

There's a monster under my skin

There's a monster under my skin

I'm not its shelter, I'm not its home

I'll tear it apart until I stand alone

There's a monster under my skin

There's a monster under my skin