Tenant Underneath Your Skin

[Verse 1] Meet the tenant living underneath your skin The uninvited guest you keep locked in the basement He feeds on the things you refuse to look at Every lie, every buried trauma You think you drowned him in the bottle But he's just learning how to swim [Verse 2] I can hear him scraping at the floorboards tonight Telling me everything I already know about myself That I'm broken, that I'm a disappointment So I take another hit just to quiet the noise Just to numb the stinging in my chest But the silence never lasts [Chorus] And I am feeding the monster inside of my chest Trying to poison the ghost that won't let me rust Embrace the shadow and bite a man Stop the numbing, I'm self-medicating Just to survive the night Or let the darkness swallow you whole [Verse 3] Anesthetize the symptom, ignore the disease A cowardly economy of coping mechanisms You can't cure the infection by hiding the wound Shine a light on the ugliness, on the parasite You think it's that easy to just stand in the light You don't know what it's like to be trapped in this mind I am drowning in reality, I'm burning alive This pill is the only thing keeping me sane [Chorus] Integrate the darkness, give a monster a name It's taking over, I'm losing control He is not your enemy, he is your missing piece It hurts too much, just make it stop Look him in the eye I am my own ruin [Outro] I'm still hiding from myself The shadow remains until you wake up