Fear Has Teeth

⸻ [Verse 1] You feel it crawling when the room goes still Not in the dark… but behind your will It knows your name, it don’t speak out loud Just breathes real slow when you’re in a crowd You say you’re fine, yeah you play it clean But it lives between what you say and mean Every silence got teeth that bite And it waits… for the perfect night ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] You don’t run — you just look away But it’s closer now than it was yesterday ⸻ [Hook] It never left you It just learned how to hide In the space between your bones And the back of your mind You can lock every door You can bury it deep But it breathes when you don’t And it wakes when you sleep It never left you… ⸻ [Verse 2] It’s in the mirror when you hold your stare That second too long — yeah it’s right there In every “what if” you won’t confess In every almost and every guess It don’t scream, it don’t need that noise It just twists your thoughts into little decoys Makes you doubt what you almost knew Then hands that doubt right back to you ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] You call it stress, you call it pain But it smiles every time you explain ⸻ [Hook] It never left you It just learned how to hide In the space between your bones And the back of your mind You can lock every door You can bury it deep But it breathes when you don’t And it wakes when you sleep It never left you… ⸻ [Bridge – Whispered / Distorted] (whisper) I was there when you first felt small When the silence got too loud to call (low distorted layer) You grew up… but I stayed the same Just changed shape… learned your name (whispers stacking) closer now… closer now… closer now… ⸻ [Final Hook – Bigger, Heavier Drop] It never left you It just lives in disguise In the corners you ignore And the truths you deny You can run from the dark But it’s already inside Yeah it learned how to wait Yeah it learned how to hide It never left you… It’s been here the whole time.