Verse 1 I woke up somewhere I was taught to fear Marble halls and shadows everywhere I had a whole speech ready in my head For monsters underneath the stairs Then a three-headed dog climbed in my lap Like we’d somehow always been friends And suddenly the stories I grew up with Didn’t make much sense Pre-Chorus Because nothing here feels wrong The way it should And that might be the strangest thing of all Chorus Everybody warned me About the King Below About the dark, about the cold About the things I shouldn’t know But nobody warned me I’d feel so calm here Nobody warned me I’d want to stay And I don’t know what that says about me Verse 2 There’s a jacket hanging by my door I probably think about it more than I should It’s not the jacket that keeps me awake It’s how he looked at me Like I was good Not somebody’s daughter Not somebody’s plan Not a problem to solve Or a thing to protect Just me And somehow I can’t quite forget that yet Pre-Chorus Maybe kindness feels different When you don’t expect it Maybe that’s all this is Chorus Everybody warned me About the King Below About the dark, about the cold About the places I shouldn’t go But nobody warned me He’d be gentle Nobody warned me He’d be kind And now I keep replaying every word Like maybe I’ve lost my mind Bridge It’s probably nothing Just a borrowed— No… A gift Just a conversation Just a jacket Just a morning Just a smile Then why does every road Lead back to him? Why does leaving feel harder Than it should? Final Chorus Everybody warned me About the King Below But standing in his kingdom Feels more like home than home And maybe that’s the part I’m not supposed to say Maybe that’s the secret I should take to my grave But when I close my eyes I don’t remember darkness I remember blue
