Crossword Trap

Verse 1

Across a silent table

black ink blots, red frown

Wrong word, wrong turn, scribbled sound

Single square, what do I fill?

Submit mistake then

Static, panic, cryptic thrill

I itch

Fearful stares, pressure games, crooked clues reign

Puzzle piece, pencils shake—name scrawled wrong again

Verse 2

Paper creases, laughter leaking

Empty box row, tangled tongue tricks

Know-it-all gaze drips, deliberate dread

Peak, valley, victory stolen

One word, none right

Tiny square, talking shadows at night

Just one

one answer,

Just one

one lie

Twirling, turning taunt by the margins

Chorus

Boxes burning, ink blurring, mind is frayed

I spin in circles, my pride decayed

Vexed by questions, haunted by doubt

Crossword trap, no way out

Crossword trap, can’t get out

Post-Chorus

Crossed out

Boxed in

Crossed out

Laughing thin

Verse 3

Silent timer ticks deceit

Erase, repeat, defeat delicious

Ill intent in clues concealed

Rows rebel, chaos grown

Turn the page, torn in two

Blank stares, empty boxes, nothing new

Fate betrayed by four perfect corners

An answer, an answer? Blank

A monster hiding softly under banked intentions

Inside letters, ruin grows

Answers bleed into a closing show

Chorus

Boxes burning, ink blurring, mind is frayed

I spin in circles, my pride decayed

Vexed by questions, haunted by doubt

Crossword trap, no way out

Crossword trap, can’t get out

Post-Chorus

Crossed out

Boxed in

Crossed out

Laughing thin

Bridge

Never solved it, never right

Never solved it, never right

Layers laughing at the night

Everything’s ending in black and white

Outro

Final word, a fighting chance

Final word, the devil’s dance

Final word, a failing glance

Then the silence, crossword ends