The house of shadows (🏚😈😨🍖)

[Intro – Whispered /mysterious] I wear the skin of timber and stone… A coffin dressed as shelter. Step inside, little moth— I’ve been watching you since before your fear learned its name. [Verse 1 – Low, Predatory] Your kind calls me “haunted,” as if I need your legends to breathe. I am older than your tragedies, I am hunger shaped into geometry. Floors sigh, windows blink— every groan you hear is a throat opening. And you… reporter man… you walked right into my jaw, so certain you’d expose me. You never question a house. You trust the door. You step inside [Pre-Chorus – Choir Rising] You cannot comprehend my purpose. I observe. I sample. I feast. Dark… In Dark Still… I Lurk The Walls… They Creak… [Chorus – Operatic, Wicked] I am the House that watches. The timber that listens. The darkness that breathes behind wallpaper skin. I feed on the ones who wander, I cage the ones who scream. Your world is just a fishbowl, and I am the hook in the dark. You fear what you don’t remember, but I remember everything. You call it haunting— I call it living. [Verse 2 – Smug, Mechanical Rhythm] To you, a home is safety. To me, it is camouflage. A mask of doors and dust pretending to be harmless. You gather outside, searching for spectacle— oh, humans are so deliciously predictable. Crowds make such wonderful echoes… so many little trembling minds pressing their faces to my walls. I could have swallowed the whole street tonight. A banquet. A festival. A feeding season. [Bridge 1 – Distorted, Chaotic] Then you appeared— cloaked sorcerer… the only one who sees what I am. Why do you deny me, Strange? Why do you protect the herd? You and the armored one— you are not like them. You could stand beside me. You could rise above them. You could— (Church bell sounds) …no? [Pre-Chorus 2 – Furious, rabid] You force me open. You strip away my disguise. You make my corridors scream. Stop—STOP— I am not finished feeding! [Chorus 2 – Unstable, Desperate] I am the House that watches. The timber that listens. The darkness that breathes behind wallpaper skin. I feed on the ones who doubt me, I thrive on the ones who dream. I’ve crossed dimensions starving, I will not leave unseen! You think you have defeated me— but I am more than this façade. Send me back, tear me down— I am not dying. I am only remembering. [Final Confrontation – Spoken, Glitching Between Voices] Wait—Sorcerer—listen. We… we don’t have to fight. Let me take them. Not you. Never you. You are above them— let me cleanse this world for you. I can spare your champions. I can spare your kind. Just open the door— let me— (Church bell sounds) NO! You cannot banish me! I am not a nightmare! I am NOT a memory! I— I WILL— [Outro – Whisper fading] …return. Every door is a wound. Every shadow is a mouth. And when you forget me— I will find you again. I always do