Outside the Walls

[Verse 1]
There was a time, some time ago
Where I found myself alone
And cut off from the outside world
I thought I'd come to know
Now I'm tearing down this house
To see what I've left behind

One day I awoke to find
A roof over my mind
And walls around my eyes
Made to look thinnest from the other side

But blind is being afraid in so many ways
But none led out of there

And now and then I'll still hear an knocking at the door
An one by one I've let 'em in
And let 'em down a thousand times before
As this solitude breeds chaos, shaking ceilings to the floor

[Chorus]
There was no way
Out of that place
Standing here I feel the same thing

As I get inside
Where I used to hide
The melodies of normalcy continue haunting me

[Verse 2]
I went down to cross the bridges of the deepest moat
Just to learn they'd burned them all down years ago
I returned to the Dark Town from where I came
Only to feel the pain again and it was much the same

And the Dracula, Frankensteins, and all of the witches
Surrounded me once again (Ah, hahahahaha)
And I'm reminded of why I ran away in the first place
This whole world is full of monsters, but not like them!

It's like I died many many long years ago
And I chose to be indefinitely left alone
Turned out to be not so one-of-a-kind

Oh and I lived many many long years to free
But this realization is bittersweet
Like a new beginning at the end of time

[Chorus]
There was no way (There was no way)
Out of that place (Out of that place)
Standing here I feel the same thing

As I get inside (As I get inside)
Where I used to hide (Where I used to hide)
The melodies of normalcy continue haunting me

Outside the walls
I'm the monster after all
When I hear those melodies, I sing along

Na, na na na, nanana na, nanana na
Na, na na na, nanana na, nanana na
Na, na na na, nanana na, nanana na