Monsters

All these monsters are real

All these monsters are real, it wasn't in my head

All these monsters are real

They're underneath my bed, yeah

All these monsters are real

(All these monsters are real)

(It wasn't in my head)

All these monsters are real

They're underneath my bed, yeah

Cemetery walls in Glassell Park

Some people die before it gets dark

Down on Drew Street, they'll test your heart

You better test back or they'll rip you apart

How do you escape a voice in the next room?

Show me a home, I'll show you a tomb

A dead memory to a dead melody

Is that what you're selling me? Your picket fence dream?

No innocence lost, no innocence gone

No one's innocent, it was you all along

Nothing washes it away, no such thing as better days

Not a single story, I'd tell a single soul

A long goodbye, I guess that's how it goes

The monsters are real, and everybody knows

That under the bed, the monsters will show

All these monsters are real

All these monsters are real, it wasn't in my head

All these monsters are real

They're underneath my bed, yeah

I remember waking up and having rats in the kitchen

No screens on the windows, that shit ain't no fiction

There were too many mouths and too many children

But the world don't give a fuck about us and our feelings

Looking up, are you listening? 'Cause I'm on my knees

Even though I'm not a Christian, listen, I might be

One in a million, 'cause I made it out of that kitchen

Now my friends are rats and they're snitchin'

I never wanted to be a millionaire

I just wanna make music

I said, Lord, are you even there?

Maybe you'll show up if I wreck this Buick

I have to prove it, growing up, I grabbed a fifth

I never had shit, so how could I lose it?

Monsters are real, everybody knows

Under the bed, the monsters will show

I'm running from the monster now

I can't escape, it holds me down

I have become the monster now

I hate my face, I love the sound

Of running from the monster now

You can't escape, I hold you down

You have become the monster now

I need to leave this goddamn town