Dont wanna be

Step inside… the cracks of my mind

Where the light dies… and the shadows grind

I don’t wanna be… I don’t wanna be…

Feel my pulse… match the heartbeat of the dead

I’m already here… crawling inside your head

Mirror cracked, jagged grin, shadows smirk back

Hands claw the walls, heart attack in pitch black

I’m the beast I built, hands stitched from my sins

Breath reeks of venom, hate seeps through my skin

Staring down a ghost, me in the reflection

Past-life aggression, my own possession

Fangs in the soul, my name in the dirt

I don't wanna be… the one that leaves you hurt

I don’t wanna be, I don’t wanna be

The shadow creeping closer when you try to breathe

I don’t wanna be, I don’t wanna be

The monster in the mirror staring back at me

I don’t wanna be, I don’t wanna be

The fear inside you that you can’t release

Horns sprout slow, crown forged from my rage

Caged by the flames, I wrote my own page

Fist through the glass, shards drip like a flood

Paint the canvas red with my own damn blood

Eyes gone hollow, swallowed by the hunger

Thunder in my chest, self-torn asunder

Every scar's a map of my darkest descent

I don’t wanna be… the one you can’t defend

I don’t wanna be… the nightmare that won’t end

Chains rattling, dragging my name in the dust

I’m rust, I’m lust, I’m a soul turned to a husk

I don’t wanna be, I don’t wanna be

The storm you can’t weather… the one you can’t see

Pray for the day I can sever this tether

I don’t wanna be… the shadow forever

Voices in the dark keep chanting my mistakes

Echoes of the choices that I couldn’t unmake

Shadows stretch long, wrapping tight ‘round my spine

Dragging every secret I buried in time

Tremors in my breath, fear carved in my name

Walking through a fire made from my own flame

If redemption’s real, let it crawl through the black

I don’t wanna be… the one who turns back

I’m trying every night not to turn and attack

I don’t wanna be… the ghost you can’t unpack

I don’t wanna be, I don’t wanna be

The shadow creeping closer when you try to breathe

I don’t wanna be, I don’t wanna be

The monster in the mirror staring back at me

I don’t wanna be, I don’t wanna be

The fear inside you that you can’t release

If the night pulls me under, don’t follow me in

I’m wrestling the darkness that grew from my sin

I don’t wanna be… I don’t wanna be…

But I’m fighting now, I’m breaking free

I’m trying to beat the demon in me.