[Intro – Clean Guitar, Child’s Voice / Whispered]
You said, “I’m safe.”
You said, “Trust me.”
You said, “Don’t tell.”
[Verse 1 – Clean → Grit]
You locked the door but smiled like home,
Said my fear was something I was shown.
Your hands were calm, your voice was low,
You taught me things I shouldn’t know.
You stood between me and the world,
Turned innocence into something curled.
I froze — my body learned to disappear,
While you whispered love into my ear.
[Pre-Chorus – Rising Tension]
I didn’t understand the wrong,
Just knew my stomach screamed all night long.
You stole my words before they formed,
Left a child trapped inside a storm.
[Chorus – Full Scream]
YOU WERE THE FRIENDLY MONSTER
HIDING IN MY BEDROOM LIGHT
A PREDATOR DRESSED AS PROTECTION
DEVOURING ME ALIVE
YOU TOOK WHAT A CHILD CAN’T GIVE
AND CALLED IT LOVE, CALLED IT CARE
YOU WERE MY NIGHTMARE WEARING A NAME
THEY TAUGHT ME TO TRUST
[Verse 2 – Scream / Chugging Riffs]
You taught me silence equals safe,
That fear was just a childish phase.
You rewired shame into my skin,
Made me complicit in your sin.
Every breath felt like a crime,
Every second bent by time.
You walked away untouched, unmarked,
Left me screaming in the dark.
[Pre-Chorus – Half-Time]
I learned to split, I learned to fade,
Learned how to rot without decay.
You planted hell inside my head,
Then slept at night in someone else’s bed.
[Chorus – Lower, Heavier]
YOU WERE THE FRIENDLY MONSTER
TEETH BARED BEHIND A GRIN
YOU FED ON MY CONFUSION
YOU THRIVED WHERE I CAVED IN
YOU STOLE MY VOICE, MY SENSE OF SELF
LEFT ME BLEEDING YEARS LATER
YOU WERE THE DEVIL I CALLED FAMILY
AND NO ONE SAW IT
[Breakdown – Slow, Violent, Spoken/Scream]
I
WAS
A
CHILD
Say it again.
I WAS A CHILD.
YOU KNEW
YOU CHOSE
YOU TOOK
YOU ARE NOT CONFUSION —
YOU ARE CRUELTY.
[Bridge – Clean Vocal, Adult Survivor]
I carried your shadow into every room,
Every mirror, every wound.
But truth survives what secrets try to kill,
And I’m still breathing — against your will.
[Final Chorus – Defiant]
YOU WERE THE FRIENDLY MONSTER
BUT I OUTLIVED YOUR LIE
YOUR POWER DIED THE DAY I SPOKE
AND LOOKED YOU IN THE EYE
YOU DON’T GET MY SHAME
YOU DON’T GET MY PAIN
YOU DON’T GET MY SILENCE ANYMORE
I NAMED YOU
AND THAT ENDED IT
[Outro – Dissonant, Fading]
You hid in kindness.
I survived in truth.
And monsters don’t live
When the child grows teeth.
Broken2Blessed
