[Verse 1] Light's out in the cave as they start to forget The people can't be saved, if there isn't a threat Prides the pilot light, and the flames gone cold So I'll strike a match, get some stories told a little destruction, a little despair a violent production right in the town square He won’t bare his teeth if the teeth don’t bite So I give them a reason to beg for a fight [Pre-Chorus] One good scare and the mountain remembers What it used to be before it surrendered [Chorus] Let the show begin, let the sirens cry Let them think the world’s about to die I’ll be the monster, he’ll be the man They’ll cheer when he stops what I started on cam [Verse 2] yeah she says it’s dirty, yeah she thinks it’s wrong But I don't see her yelling when the people sing along I don’t need her preaching, I just need the results It's the ends, not the means that gives the dragon a pulse I break what we built so he has to arrive I write the disaster, keep the myth alive He’ll curse me at midnight, he’ll thank me at dawn When the ratio’s climbing and the lights are still on [Pre-Chorus] No audience, no engine, no heat in the stone So I book us a villain and make it my own [Chorus] Let the show begin, let the blood look real Let them thank the dragon for the way they feel If the pride won’t come when you ask it to I'll stage the fright and you'll farm the views [Bridge, building in intensity] Act one is the panic, act two is the fight Act three is the part where they see his might I wrote him the entrance, I timed him the light He hates every word and he still says them right The group chat’s closed now, the thumbnail’s been changed But the mountain remembers the night that we staged Call it a crime, call it content, call it low I call it the only way the flame can grow He’ll call it a sin when the feed goes dark I’ll call it a cheat code into leaving our mark The blood looks authentic, the fires just a bluff But the pride in the comments is real enough When the last siren dies and the crowd goes home I’m still in the rafters with a half-written note He gets the handshake, the weight, and the fans I get the knowledge that the mountain still stands No medal, no mention, no seat at the plan Just the fact that it worked where no real fight can And if it comes out, and the truth is said Better hated and standing than honest and dead [Chorus] Let the show begin, let the sirens cry Let them think the world’s about to die I’ll be the monster, he’ll be the man They’ll cheer when he stops what I started on cam Let the show begin, let the blood look real Let them thank the dragon for the way they feel If the pride won’t come when you ask it to I'll stage the fright and you'll farm the views [outro] Let the show begin Let the show begin
