The Vent

There are Things in the Dark

There are Things in the Dark

There are things in the Dark

Because you blew out my candle

There are creatures that I cannot see

You have left me alone in this shadowed room

Where fiction melts into reality

There are things in the dark

There are things in the dark

There are things I can tell that hate me

There are things now that I can't identify

Because you blew out my candle

And left me here to die

I've been shoved to the ground and called liar and thief

All because I've been replaced

You've left me here clawing

With hands towards the window

Where you I can no longer embrace

I'm losing it I'm losing it I'm losing my mind

Because somewhere it's you I'm not allowed to find

Where I told you to fight and all you can say is I tried

Where I told you to tell me and you flat out lied

There are things in the dark and I cannot begin to explain

All the hells and the jail cells I've seen and I've been

Metaphorically speaking it's a mind cell but WHY WOULD YOU TRADE ME FOR A TICKET TO POPULAR VILLE

You betrayed be by leaving

You blew out my candle

You tricked me, deceived me

And you were more than they could handle

You tried to climb up and got pushed off the cliff

You tried to be cool and got bruises and hits

You thought you could be what they wanted you to

But what they are is just masked by the sports and the shoes

And what you are is just me, with a heart black and blue

There are people like them

More than of you

And they live to be popular and stay popular too

They will make you feel broken

Wounds open anew

And they'll try to change you into someone untrue

They'll tell you to lie and to cheat and to steal

They'll tell you to believe in what simply isn't real

And then ditch you alone driving blind at the wheel

Because they'll blow out your candle

And leave you in here

To be ravaged by bullies

Torn apart by your fear

To be locked in a cage

Helpless drowning in rage

And all this for what?

Desperate pressure to change

It's desperate gnawing from the outside in

And nobody wants to be told they're a sin

But who's to say that you're choosing it wrong

When somehow they know you've been right all along

That they grew up and knew that they made a bad choice

But realized too late when they didn't have a voice

The world is a pit

And you're stuck in the middle

You're climbing but falling

They scream "YOURE TOO LITTLE"

There were things in the dark

And you slashed and you kicked

Desperate screaming "DID IT HAVE TO BE ME WHO WAS PICKED?!"

So don't be a fool

That's what is found in the dark

Living under your beds

Where your fear leaves its mark

And you blew out my candle

You left me in shadows

You blew out my candle

You blew out my -