Behind Your Eyes
One…
two…
It can see
you…
Three…
four…
Don't
lock the door…
Five…
six…
It learned your
tricks…
Seven…
eight… IT'S TOO LATE.
Why are you
pretending to sleep?
There's a woman standing beside my bed
Her feet don't touch the floor
She's been staring at me for seven nights
But tonight she's staring no more
She's crawling slowly across the ceiling
Her neck bends the wrong way round
Her mouth is moving without a voice
But I hear her beneath the ground
I pulled the blanket over my head
I felt her fingers through the sheet Then she spoke inside my
ear—
(Those aren't your feet)
DON'T OPEN YOUR EYES!
DON'T ANSWER THE CRIES!
THE THING IN THE CORNER IS WEARING YOUR SKIN!
DON'T LOOK AT THE DOOR!
IT'S NOT THERE ANYMORE!
THE SCREAMS THAT YOU HEAR ARE COMING FROM WITHIN!
IT CRAWLS! IT BREATHES!
IT HIDES IN YOUR DREAMS!
IT COUNTS EVERY SECOND YOU'RE TRYING TO SLEEP!
AND WHEN YOU WAKE UP—
IT'S ALREADY DEEP…
UNDER YOUR BED WHERE THE DEAD CHILDREN WEEP!
My mother called me from the kitchen She said,
"Come downstairs, my dear" But her voice was coming from my closet
And my mother wasn't here
I heard my own voice start laughing (hahaha)
From somewhere inside the wall
It said, "I've been practicing your breathing" "Soon you won't be needed
at all"
The mirror showed an empty bedroom Except for something dressed like me
It pressed its face against the glass And whispered—
YOU'RE THE ONE WHO SHOULDN'T BE
Under the floor…
Behind the door…
Something is counting…
One hundred and four…
Inside the walls…
Inside your head…
Something is sleeping… INSIDE YOUR BED.
I know you're listening.
(I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME)
TEAR DOWN THE WALLS!
IT'S INSIDE THEM ALL!
THE FACES ARE MOVING!
THE HORRORS CAN CRAWL!
YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY!
YOU CAN'T SEE THE DAY!
IT'S BEEN IN YOUR ROOM SINCE THE NIGHT YOU WERE BORN!
THE MIRROR IS CRACKING!
THE CEILING IS BLACKENING!
THE VOICE IN YOUR THROAT ISN'T YOURS ANYMORE!
IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE!
IT'S RIGHT AT YOUR EAR!
AND NOW IT'S BEGGING YOU TO OPEN THE DOOR!
You
thought this song was about a monster… But monsters don't need permission
to
enter. (ahhhh) And I wasn't singing to you… I
was singing to the thing
standing behind you. THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME WHERE TO
LOOK.