Wake the Monster in Me

[Intro] Rain on the windows, thunder in chains

Candles are trembling inside their frames

Something is breathing beneath the floor

And I am not innocent anymore

[Verse 1] I came here clean in my Sunday disguise

With fear in my throat and a storm in my eyes

The walls started laughing, the portraits all leaned

Like they knew every thought I had buried unseen

There’s a voice in the hallway, velvet and cruel

Saying, “Break every promise they taught you in school.”

I should have run when the door lost its key

But something was waking the monster in me

[Pre-Chorus] I feel the wires hum under my skin

I hear the choir of beautiful sin

The mirror is smiling, the shadows agree

Something forbidden is calling to me

[Chorus] Wake the monster in me

Let the old fear fall

Raise the dead little dream

From the cracks in the wall

I was quiet, I was chained

I was trained to obey

Now the dark says my name

And I can't look away

[Verse 2] The staircase is twisting, the red carpet bleeds

The air tastes like secrets and dangerous needs

I see my reflection dressed up in flame

Wearing a hunger too wild to name

The night keeps whispering, “Come as you are.”

With a grin full of thunder and a black-paper heart

I used to be careful, I used to be small

Now I want the echo, the crash, and the fall

[Pre-Chorus] I feel the wires hum under my skin

I hear the choir of beautiful sin

The mirror is smiling, the shadows agree

Something forbidden is calling to me

[Chorus] Wake the monster in me

Let the old fear fall

Raise the dead little dream

From the cracks in the wall

I was quiet, I was chained

I was trained to obey

Now the dark says my name

And I can't look away

[Bridge] No more lace over lightning

No more prayers through my teeth

No more hiding from the hunger

That has slept underneath

If the house wants confession

Let the rafters all scream

I am done being haunted

By the life I did not dream

[Breakdown] Wake it up

Drag it out

Let it breathe

Let it shout

Burn the veil

Break the frame

Crown the fear

Speak the name

[Final Chorus] Wake the monster in me

Let the old fear fall

Raise the dead little dream

From the cracks in the wall

I was quiet, I was chained

I was trained to obey

Now the dark says my name

And I can't look away

[Outro] Rain on the windows, thunder in chains

Nothing walks out of this house the same

I crossed the line where the old self died

And the monster I woke is standing inside