POISONED DREAMS [Intro — broken music box, children humming] [Children whispering] Close your eyes… Count to ten… Let the poison in again… One for worry, Two for pain, Three dark shadows Inside your brain… [Verse 1] It starts as a whisper beneath the skin, A drop of fear that crawls within, It slips through cracks behind your eyes, And feeds your sleep with little lies. It stains the faces that you know, It makes the safest darkness grow, Until your blood begins to change. A heartbeat knocks beneath the floor, Something breathes behind the door— Only poison in the air. [Children’s Choir] Drink it slowly, Breathe it deep, Feed the worry While you sleep. Every nightmare, Every scream, Anxiety will poison Every dream. [Pre-Chorus] It moves like venom through the mind, Leaving peace and sense behind, Every thought begins to rot, Every fear becomes a knot. What if they leave? What if you fall? What if the shadows know it all? [Chorus] Anxiety’s poison Is crawling through my brain, Turning every dream I have Into a house of pain. It blackens every memory, It whispers through my bones, It makes a monster from my thoughts And feeds when I’m alone. The poison of anxiety Is living in my veins, It wears my face, it moves my hands, It tightens all my chains. I’m trapped inside my own mind, Where every doorway screams, The worry took my body— And poisoned all my dreams. [Verse 2] I woke to find my body still, Frozen underneath its will, A shadow sitting on my chest, Smiling while I begged for rest. Its fingers curled around my spine, Its voice sounded just like mine: “I know the thoughts you never say, I know what keeps you wide awake. You made me every sleepless night, You fed me every time you cried. I’m not the thing beneath your bed— I am the poison in your head.” [Children chanting] You let it in, You let it grow, You gave it names That no one knows. You built the room, You locked the door, Now worry wants A little more. [Breakdown] GET OUT OF MY BLOOD! GET OUT OF MY BRAIN! YOU TURN EVERY WHISPER INTO SUFFERING AND PAIN! YOU LIVE IN THE “WHAT IF”! YOU FEED ON THE “WHY”! YOU BURY TOMORROW BEFORE IT CAN ARRIVE! I’M RUNNING FROM NOTHING, BUT NOTHING IS NEAR, NOTHING HAS TEETH— AND ITS NAME IS FEAR! [Children screaming] Drink the poison! Dream the pain! Let the worry Eat your brain! Don’t resist— Every nightmare starts like this! [Bridge — one child singing] Hush now, little frightened mind, Leave the waking world behind, Close your eyes and count to three, Give your thoughts away to me. One little worry becomes two, Two little worries swallow you, Three little worries learn your name, Four little worries light the flame. Five steal breath, Six bring screams, Seven crawl into your dreams, Eight are watching, Nine are near, Ten become The shape of fear. [Final Chorus] The poison of anxiety Has swallowed every light, It pours its nightmares through my eyes And drags them into life. It crawls beneath my fingernails, It sleeps behind my stare, It turns the safest room I know Into something waiting there. The poison of anxiety Now controls my blood and breath, It makes me live a thousand lives And fear a thousand deaths. I’m buried in my own mind, Where nothing’s what it seems, The worry owns my body— The poison owns my dreams. [Outro — music box slowing] [Children whispering] Close your eyes… Count to ten… Let the poison Start again… [One child] You never escaped the nightmare. It lives inside you.
