THE HOUSE THAT HALLOWEEN BUILT [Pre Intro] (Wind. Thunder. A faint music box.) A black invitation. No return address. No name. Only one message... "Your reservation has been confirmed." "October 31st." "Midnight." Beneath the words... A photograph. A house beneath a dead October moon. Windows glowing. Front door open. I stared at the image... Because I knew that place. I had never been there... But somehow... I remembered it. The paper began to crackle. The edges turned black. The ink bled away. The photograph faded in my hands. Ash fell between my fingers... Until nothing remained. No invitation. No address. No proof it ever existed. [Intro] Then... I woke up. Cold air against my skin. Wet leaves beneath my feet. Fog surrounding me. No road. No lights. No one. I looked down... And froze. These clothes weren't mine. An old black coat. Worn leather boots. A shirt that smelled of time. No phone. No wallet. No memory... Of how I crossed that line. Then I saw it. The iron gate. The dead trees. The glowing windows. The house from the photograph... Standing right there. The photograph wasn't a picture. It was a memory. (Door opens.) "Welcome..." "You've been expected..." "Come in..." "Come in..." (Haunting laughter) [Verse 1] The hallway stretched forever. Candles burned without flame. Portraits watched me passing by... Like they knew my name. A rocking horse moved slowly. A child's laughter filled the air. Tiny footsteps crossed the floor... But nobody was there. A grandfather clock counted backward. A music box began to play. A song I almost remembered... From another life, another day. [Chorus] Welcome to the house that Halloween built. Where the forgotten come alive. Where every shadow has a story. Where every ghost refuses to die. Walk deeper through the darkness. Let the unknown pull you in. The night knows all your secrets. The house knows where you've been. Welcome... To the house that Halloween built. [Verse 2] The nursery door stood open. A lullaby played slow. A doll sat in the corner... With eyes that seemed to know. The ballroom lights awakened. Golden dust danced through the air. For one moment it felt like home... And that was what scared me there. The basement called my name. The attic changed my face. Every room held something hidden. Every shadow knew my place. [Bridge] (Everything cuts out.) (Heartbeat begins.) THUMP... THUMP... THUMP... The house stops breathing. The shadows stop moving. The laughter disappears. THUMP... THUMP... THUMP... Something is standing in the darkness. Something is waiting. THUMP... THUMP... THUMP... THUMP... The walls begin to shake. The air grows colder. The door slams. (Hysterical laughter) [Adrenaline Rap] Footsteps running but the hallway keeps changing. Every door disappears, every wall rearranging. Lights flicker, floors crack, something's getting closer. Cold breath on my neck but there's nobody over. Clock hands spinning, counting down my fate. Every exit disappears behind another gate. Hear the attic laughing, hear the basement calling. Hear something crawling through the walls while they're falling. Run through the darkness, can't find where I started. Every room keeps a memory I thought I discarded. Mirrors keep shifting, faces keep changing. The house isn't chasing me... It's rearranging. The ceiling starts breathing. The walls start screaming. The house knows my thoughts before I start dreaming. I run from the monster that I cannot see... Then the monster turns around... And it's me. [Final Verse] The final door opened. No monster. No demon. No creature in the dark. Only a room of mirrors... And a thousand broken parts. Every face staring back. Every age I left behind. The child I abandoned. The dreams I buried. The truths I denied. Then I saw the coat. The boots. The clothes I wore when I arrived. Not a costume. Not a disguise. A version of myself... I left behind. The mirrors began to crack. Every reflection looked afraid... Except one. One of them smiled. [Final Chorus] Welcome to the house that Halloween built. Every fear became a wall. Every memory became a room. Every shadow heard my call. I spent my life running from ghosts... Never knowing what they were. The house wasn't haunted. It was remembering. [Outro] (The music box melody returns, slower and distorted.) Halloween never built a prison... It built a mirror. Every October... The door appears. Every October... It waits. (A final whisper.) "Welcome home." (Music box fades. Laughter disappears into the wind.)
