(I'm Not Going) Back to the Mansion

[Verse 1] There's a meteor under the floorboards Talking to a man in a lab coat Twenty years of secrets and a hamster in the microwave That's the kind of house that taught me how to run away [Verse 2] Tentacles crying in the music room Nurse with a needle, kid with a broom Everybody's got a role to play I played mine once — not gonna play it twice today [Pre-chorus] You can mail the tape, you can sign the line You can wait around till the basement's mine But I already climbed out the window once I know exactly how that story runs [Chorus] I'm not going back to the mansion No, I'm not going back through that door Burn the blueprints, sell the furniture I've played this house before I'm not going back to the mansion You can keep the meteor and the glow I found the one way out that nobody talks about And baby, it's called "no" [Verse 3] Saw Dave running with a flashlight Saw the dog that doesn't bite, bite Saw a future where I'm trapped inside those walls forever Wrote a song instead — figured that was clever [Chorus] I'm not going back to the mansion No, I'm not going back through that door Burn the blueprints, sell the furniture I've played this house before I'm not going back to the mansion You can keep the meteor and the glow I found the one way out that nobody talks about And baby, it's called "no" [Bridge — stripped down, just bass and vocal, building] Every haunted house wants a girl to stay Wants her standing pretty while it rots away Says "this could be yours" like that's a gift — I'd rather starve out here than live with it [Final chorus — full band, screaming] I'M NOT GOING BACK TO THE MANSION! NOT GOING BACK THROUGH THAT DOOR! Burn the blueprints, sell the furniture I've played this house before! I'm not going back to the mansion — Lock the gate and let it fall I already wrote my ending And it's NOTHING — at all — to do with that house! [Outro, shouted over feedback] Razor's out! Scummettes are gone! Turn the porch light off — we're moving on!