Reprogrammed

[Intro] It’s not the dark you fear... It’s what’s hiding in it... The eyes. The smile. The hunger. Don't be afraid. It only hurts. Until you're like me. [Verse 1] It don't hit like a hammer, don't strike like a blade, Its a slow-burn erosion, a gradual fade, A rot in the logic, a glitch in the soul, Parasitic longing taking full control. It stalks through synapses, it hunts in the head, Til every human thoughts blistered and dead, Watch as the politeness withers and dies, The "sweetness" is rotting right before your eyes. [Pre-Chorus] The claw. The maw. The smile that stretches too far to be kind, We are the reason that you fear the dark, The nightside of reason, the horror refined. [Chorus] REPROGRAMMED! One word commands in a hollow chest, AWAKENED! The corpse of a human finally put to rest. Do you feel it? That leftover instinct? The one that told you to run? Welcome to the shadow now, Where the feast has just begun. [Verse 2] Dreams turn to prophecies, riddles turn clear, The devil is detailing every fear, The day is a traitor, a blinding white lie, A sterile wasteland where the spirit goes dry. But the night? Oh that’s just the start, Of aching thirst and a hammering heart, It’s not transformation, it’s shedding of skin, Letting the actual monster in. [Bridge] [Spiraling] It eats at your rhythm. It eats at your speech... The "human" I was is now out of reach... And it eats at me like I eat at you... A hunger that’s honest, a hunger that’s true. [Chorus] REPROGRAMMED! One word commands in a hollow chest, AWAKENED! The corpse of a human finally put to rest. Do you feel it? That leftover instinct? The one that told you to run? Welcome to the shadow now, Where the feast has just begun. [Outro] It doesn’t happen all at once, It's slow, It's lumbering, It's persistent... ...And you're it's next target. [End]