Monsters Like Us Lyrics

When I was just a child I was quite

Of shadows in the corner of my room

Without a light at night I would be tearful

But there was only dust beyond the gloom

The monsters aren't under the beds but in them

The only wolves left are the ones inside

We can't conceive a single act or vision

So brutal that it never has been tried

With Monsters like us, who needs stories?

With Tyrants like us, who needs kings?

Where have all the demons gone?

Were their wicked ways undone?

No my dear, You say, they've gone within

I try to keep an optimistic nature

Against the current situation here

All I see is looming threats of danger

Once so distant, now so awfully near

Can't read the news today, it disgusts me

I don't think i can take it anymore

Vultures with their culture of celebrity

Finding new horrors to ignore

With Monsters like us, who needs stories?

With Tyrants like us, who needs kings?

Where have all the demons gone?

Were their wicked ways undone?

No my dear, You say, they've gone within

I want my old fears back, the creatures with their teeth of glass

The ogres in their castles with their clean-licked bones

Because in those old fears of mine, I always seemed to find the time

To be safe in my bed, asleep at home.

Perhaps I'm being far too pessimistic

In looking at the way things are

Perhaps the universe is just sadistic

We try, but it keeps raising the bar

Just give me some hope, I implore you

That the way things are is not the way they'll be

Just give me something that I can do

To make a change in all, not just in me

With Monsters like us, who needs stories?

With Tyrants like us, who needs kings?

Where have all the demons gone?

Were their wicked ways undone?

No my dear, You say, they've gone within