Black Box

The Beast Inside

Skin pale and frigid
Colorless eyes
Heart dark as the blackest shadows in your mind
Lips dripping with blood
Claws for nails

I'm the beast you are afraid of
The demon inside you
Stashed just beneath your skin
Your greatest sin
The secret you can't tell your friends

I call to you in your dreams
As you stumble through the darkness

I can smell your fear
Feel the beating of your frantic heart

The blood racing through your veins
Smells like heaven to me

I am everything you never want to be
I am the monster going bump in the night
The reason you turn on all the lights
And sleep with the door open, the closet closed
Keeping all your skeletons away from your precious glow
All the secrets you hope nobody ever knows

I am the darkness deep within
Every lie, every sin
The bottom of the bottle
The last pill to keep you sane

You hate me
But I am your everything
You think me ugly
But in this world I am beautiful

You scream at the sight of me
The sound runs through my head
My version of a beautiful melody
A sweet symphony

Guns and chocolate
A delicious intoxication so shiny and sweet
Bet you are sick of me

I am nothing but a monster to you
A secret too scary to share
Not that you would dare
Because deep down

I am beautiful to you
Addictive like the prescription you can't drop
The glass of alcohol you just topped off
I am all you dream about

What others would call nightmares
You call beautiful images
Filled with lust and blood-soaked corpses
Sweet smiles and glittering blades
Our version of what is sane

I am your best friend
The one you want with you until the end
Your fallen angel, your guardian
Your life, your poison

I am the monster you have become
The demon holding a loaded gun
Out for sweet revenge
Ready to destroy the world

I am the beast you are afraid of
The demon inside you
Stashed just beneath your skin
Your greatest sin
I am the you you are afraid to see

I am you, you are me, we are one