[Intro]
[low hum, distant growls]
They’re awake
Underneath my tongue
Hear that scratch
Yeah, the dark things come
[Verse 1]
Teeth on the edge of my thoughts
They crawl up the back of my neck
Every little fear that I lost
Came home, came home to collect
I taste rust when they’re talking
(ha) they know every secret I hide
Every sin that I buried in daylight
Dances naked in the back of my mind
[Pre-Chorus]
I feel claws in the crawlspace
Hot breath on my name
Tried praying to a blank sky
But something else came
[Chorus]
Dark things came to play
In my head, in my veins
Hear the demonic growls
Devilish laughs in the haze
They say “you’re ours today”
Drag me down, make me stay
I locked the door, they burned it away
Dark things came to play
[Verse 2]
Words drip thick like venom
Spit fire on the walls of my skull
Every “you’re not enough” that I swallowed
Now they’re lining ’em up, locked and loaded and full
They wear my face when they’re grinning
Flip my memories, twist every frame
Turn my bedroom to a war zone
Every heartbeat spelling my name
[Pre-Chorus]
I feel nails on the mirror
Cold breath on my faith
Tried running from the wreckage
But they kept my shape
[Chorus]
Dark things came to play
In my head, in my veins
Hear the demonic growls
Devilish laughs in the haze
They say “you’re ours today”
Drag me down, make me stay
I locked the door, they burned it away
Dark things came to play
[Bridge]
(ha… ha… HA)
[beat drops, whisper-rap]
They chant in a circle, circle
Round my doubts like prey
Every shadow getting purple
Till the color drains away
You wanna see my halo?
It’s buried in the floor
Every time I reach for heaven
They pull me through the trapdoor
[guttural growl]
You called the dark
Now the dark calls back
You crossed that line
Now there’s no way back
[Chorus]
Dark things came to play
In my head, in my veins
Hear the demonic growls
Devilish laughs in the haze
They say “you’re ours today”
Drag me down, make me stay
I locked the door, they burned it away
Dark things came to play
[Outro]
[distorted laughs fading]
They don’t leave
They just wait
In the cracks
For the next mistake