Who is the monster

That swallowed up the kid

Buried deep inside

Where your heart lived before?

Who is the monster

That beats behind your eyes

Hungry as religion

Wanting more more more?

But now I wake in the back of the family car

Desert Storm on NPR

Though I am eleven

I know my depression

Even better than my reflection

And I was never good with images

So I never had what it takеs to

Put the visions into words

You wouldn't mistake

I shake shakе shake but can’t shake the dream

I shake shake shake but can't shake the dream

And now I've shed my every scale

A monster swallows up its tail

In a shape I know, but I know I’ve never seen

Who is the monster

Becoming all the kids?

A hot and hungry coil

With nothing at the core

Who is the monster

Pulling across the sand

Can we run away, run away, run away, love?

Isn't that what running's for?

But now I

I wake up again when I hear Public Enemy

For the first time, it's infecting me

I am weaponry made for the worst time

No no no no

Did you ever wish that decade or century

Was all just a reverie

And if every day was an ache it's okay

One day you'd wake?

I shake shake shake but can't shake the dream

I shake shake shake but can't shake the dream

And now I’ve shed my every scale

A monster swallows up its tail

In a shape I know, but I know I’ve never seen

Under the dull brown sun of life in quarantine

You can run away run away run away

You can run away run away run away

You can run away run away run away

But who is the monster?