[Verse 1]
I wake with teeth in my throat
Your shadow crawling my walls
Wet footprints on the carpet
Little red smears on the glass
I count the cracks in my ceiling
They count me back, one by one
My lungs get locked in a fist
When the dark says, "run"
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't blink
It learns your name
Don't scream
It likes the taste
Hands on my neck
Cold as a blade
I see my bed
Then it folds away
[Chorus]
Nightmare
Rip through my skull
Nightmare
Make me feel it all
Nightmare
I don't get away
Nightmare
I was born this way
[Verse 2]
There's a girl in the mirror
With my grin and dead black eyes
She mouths my sins in silence
Then drags me under twice
The hallway bends like hunger
Every door has a mouth
I hear my own voice laughing
From the crawlspace south
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't blink
It learns your name
Don't scream
It likes the taste
Hands on my neck
Cold as a blade
I see my bed
Then it folds away
[Chorus]
Nightmare
Rip through my skull
Nightmare
Make me feel it all
Nightmare
I don't get away
Nightmare
I was born this way
[Bridge]
Seven knocks on the ceiling
Then nothing, then your breath
I claw through sheets and meaning
But the dream keeps its teeth
If I wake, I wake bleeding
If I stay, I vanish slow
So I bite the dark first
Let it know, let it know
[Final Chorus]
Nightmare
Rip through my skull
Nightmare
Make me feel it all
Nightmare
I don't get away
Nightmare
I was born this way