[Intro – Whispered, distant children’s voices]
(Tick… tick… tick…)
The clock stopped at midnight…
But the house kept breathing.
The shadows know my name…
They’ve been waiting for me.
[Verse 1]
Old wooden floors beneath my feet,
Dust on the pictures, ghosts in the sheets.
Candy wrappers from a year gone by,
Forgotten costumes in the attic hide.
Pumpkin faces on the window glow,
Like little secrets we used to know.
Neighborhood whispers, the streetlights fade,
The monsters we feared were the ones we made.
[Pre-Chorus]
Do you remember the sound of the door?
The footsteps you heard when you were alone before?
The laughter stopped, but the echoes stayed…
Buried deep where the memories fade.
[Chorus – Heavy drop]
Welcome back to the house of the lost,
Where every little ghost remembers the cost.
The masks we wore, the games we played,
The scars we hid and the promises made.
The jack-o’-lanterns watch from the street,
Counting every heartbeat underneath.
You locked those memories far away…
But they came back on Halloween night.
[Verse 2]
Old VHS tapes in a cardboard box,
Frozen moments that time forgot.
A childhood room with a flickering light,
A shadow moving at the edge of sight.
The smell of leaves, the cold October rain,
A familiar feeling you can’t explain.
The songs we sang, the names we called,
The voices waiting behind the walls.
[Bridge – Slow, eerie breakdown]
(Whispers)
Don’t open the door…
Don’t look in the mirror…
Don’t wake the things…
That have been sleeping for years.
Every fear that you buried alive,
Every memory you tried to survive…
Every scream that you swallowed whole…
Has been waiting to come back home.
[Final Chorus – Bigger, darker]
Welcome back to the house of the lost,
Where every forgotten nightmare counts the cost.
The candles burn, the shadows crawl,
The ghosts aren’t hiding anymore at all.
The children laugh, the midnight calls,
Your old fears are walking through the halls.
You thought you buried yesterday…
But yesterday remembers your name.
[Outro – Music box fading]
Tick… tick… tick…
The clock starts again.
The house is quiet…
Until next Halloween.
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