Kill Off My Ghosts

[Verse 1]
Woke up on the floor
Same cracked ceiling
Same old war
Names carved in the plaster
Every fear
Every disaster
I fed those shadows for years
Built them thrones from all my tears
Stared at the edge so long
Forgot how it feels to belong
[Chorus]
So I kill off my ghosts
One by one
Let 'em go
All the teeth in my head
Ain't for biting myself anymore
I’ve been fighting in my own skin
Now I’m kicking the monsters out
I kill off my ghosts
So I can live again
Live loud (yeah)
[Verse 2]
Pulled the nails from my tongue
Started saying what I'd run from
Turned my poison to medicine
Breathing deep
Breathing it in
Burned that faded black coat
Where I hid every cracked note
Now the scars on my hands
Look like maps
Not demands
[Chorus]
So I kill off my ghosts
One by one
Let 'em go
All the teeth in my head
Ain’t for biting myself anymore
I’ve been fighting in my own skin
Now I’m kicking the monsters out
I kill off my ghosts
So I can live again
Live loud (oh)
[Bridge]
I’m done being my own cage
Done worshiping my rage
Lit a match in that dark place
Watched the fear melt off my face
If I shake
I shake and stay
If I break
I break my way
Every crack lets in that blaze
I’m not afraid
[Chorus]
‘Cause I kill off my ghosts
One by one
Let 'em go
All the teeth in my head
Bite the chains that I wore before
I’ve been fighting in my own skin
Now I’m kicking the monsters out
I kill off my ghosts
So I can live again
Live now (hey)
Yeah
I kill off my ghosts
So I can live again
Live loud

rock, Big dynamic alternative rock: clean guitar arpeggios in the verse, then explode into overdriven power chords and roomy live drums on the chorus. Male vocals that start hushed and haunted then rise into a strained, cathartic belt. Fuzzy bass glues it together; last chorus adds octave vocal harmonies and crash-heavy drums for a triumphant, stadium-ready finish., light, alternative rock