Shadow People Songtext
von 12 Step Rebels

Voices in my head and I′m tied to my bed
And they came to me in the darkest of dreams
No shot in the arm is gonna calm me down tonight
Cause these things that I see, they're torturing me
They′re almost human, can't you see them hiding in the darkness?
Waiting to steal your soul
The shadow people

So Mama leave the lights on, don't close the bedroom door
And Daddy check the closet so I can be sure
That it′s safe to go to sleep, before I lay me down tonight
And I′ll say a little prayer, but God won't be there
Just demons flying everywhere to take me to hell
Cause I′ve been a bad, bad boy

And I've heard all the things that can happen to me
All the wicked words of the good book you read
But in tears now I′m pleading cause nothing's worse than them
But you say they don′t exist, it's all in my dreams
And you put me in the cellar beneath lock and key
Banished from the light 'til I see things your way


Now I′m huddled beneath a crack in a window painted black
Protection that′s fleeting, how long can it last
The light, now it's fading, as terror fills my heart
And the visions they start
The demons possess me, the shadows caress me
Clawing at the walls, please someone get me out of this place
There′s no use, nowhere to run
As the shadow people come!

Now my body isn't mine, just a prison I′m in
Convulsing and puking, this pain never ends
My blood coats the walls bearing witnesses to my fate
Now the cellar door, it cracks, a plate and a glass
Let their shards be the weapons which destroy them at last
Mother enters first, never knowing it's too late
Oh yeah

Now I′m strapped down surrounded by white coated thugs
With the power to administer psychotropic drugs
Electric shock and Prozac. Thorazine and Rorschach. Oh yeah
But these things that I see, they're torturing me
They're almost human. Can′t you see them hiding in the darkness
Waiting to steal your soul
The shadow people