BEFORE YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES

Yeah...
Did you ever ask why they leave it all on me?
You swear your life's different.
Maybe that's just what your brain wants you to believe.
Heh.

Why they leave it on my shoulders every time they disappear?
Why you call it something different when we living through the same fear?
You don't know what you've been missing till the silence gets too clear,
Then you need somebody guilty when the ending drawing near.

You keep pointing at the world like the world gon' take the blame,
Paint a smile across your face, but the picture stays the same,
Every hallway got an echo, every memory got a stain,
You can change the way you tell it, can't erase the fucking pain.

I'm the shape behind the doorway, I'm the breathing in the dark,
I'm the little bit of panic when the bedroom lights go off,
Had you sleeping with the bulb on, had you listening to the walls,
Now you grown and call it nothing, but you still pick up my call.

Say you never saw me,
Say it was all in your head,
Then why you leave that light on?
Why you check beneath the bed?

Monster, monster, underneath your bed,
I turned your nightmares on, now they're living in your head,
Crawling through your skin till your heartbeat feels like mine,
Tell me I ain't real before you close your eyes.

Monster, monster, don't you turn around,
You can lock a hundred doors, I ain't making any sound,
At the end of that tunnel, when the last light dies,
You'll know the face you feared your whole damn life.

I'm the reaper by the bed where somebody takes their breath,
But they see an angel glowing when they standing close to death,
Call me messenger from Heaven, sent by God to lead the way,
I don't answer, I just listen to the last thing that they say.

Funny how the kid saw horns and the old man sees a crown,
Same shadow, same visitor, only time turned it around,
What you feared when you were little, you might welcome when you're weak,
And the truth ain't getting louder just because you hear it speak.

I don't need to break your window, I don't need to cross your floor,
I was hiding in the question you were scared to ask before,
In the space between your eyelids, in the minute before sleep,
All the things you swear are buried got a way of running deep.

Monster, monster, underneath your bed,
I turned your nightmares on, now they're living in your head,
Crawling through your skin till your heartbeat feels like mine,
Tell me I ain't real before you close your eyes.

Monster, monster, don't you turn around,
You can lock a hundred doors, I ain't making any sound,
At the end of that tunnel, when the last light dies,
You'll know the face you feared your whole damn life.

Who you blaming when the clock don't care about your name?
Who you calling when the light can't make the shadows go away?
You can swear you lived a life that nobody else could claim,
But the ending got no favorites, everybody plays the game.

I watched kings become a whisper, watched the poor become the dust,
Watched the faithful beg for answers, watched the fearless lose their trust,
Every secret that you swallowed, every lie you kept inside,
What goes in comes back outside, ain't a single place to hide.

I'm no savior, I'm no devil, you decide what you believe,
I'm the face your mind invented from the things you couldn't see,
Little child or dying elder, I ain't changing what I am,
Only thing that ever changed was the meaning in your head.

Leave the light on, leave the light on,
Like you did when you were young,
You been running from a shadow,
But the shadow never runs.

Monster, monster, underneath your bed,
I turned your nightmares on, now they're living in your head,
At the end of that tunnel, when the last light dies,
You'll know I was there before you closed your eyes.

You called me a monster then.
You call me an angel now.
I never changed.
What goes in...
Comes back outside.