# **THE WOLF INSIDE** **[Verse 1]** They built the house with crooked walls, taught me silence before words. Every kindness had a cost. Every warning went unheard. I learned the weather of a room, when to vanish, when to freeze. How to make myself so small even shadows passed through me. **[Pre-Chorus]** You call it instinct. I call it years. A body learns what it has to fear. **[Chorus]** **I was raised by wolves,** **I learned to bite.** **Wolves making wolves** **in the dead of night.** **I keep looking up,** **but there’s no light—** **I was raised by wolves,** **so the wolf still lives inside.** **[Verse 2]** They threw me past the garden gate, where the branches scratched my name. Every stranger looked like winter. Every doorway felt the same. So I wore the cold like armor. Made a shelter from distrust. If the world would never hold me, I would teach myself enough. **[Pre-Chorus]** You call me distant. You call me wild. But no one came to tame the child. **[Chorus]** **I was raised by wolves,** **I learned to bite.** **Wolves making wolves** **in the dead of night.** **I keep looking up,** **but there’s no light—** **I was raised by wolves,** **so the wolf still lives inside.** **[Bridge]** Now every open hand looks like a trap. Every warm room has an unseen crack. I know the forest even when it’s gone. I hear its breathing when the night comes on. And sometimes I wonder what I might have been if love had found me before survival did. **[Breakdown]** The woods are gone. The fear remains. Different sky. The same old rain. I left the pack. I crossed the line. But what survives does not stay behind. **[Final Chorus]** **I was raised by wolves,** **I learned to bite.** **Wolves making wolves** **in the dead of night.** **I keep looking up,** **but there’s no light—** **I was raised by wolves,** **so the wolf still lives inside.** **[Outro]** I left the forest. I left them behind. But some things follow without making a sound. The wolf still lives inside.
