If we really want to get honest with ourselves and each other, we could agree that we all have that monster in us, if put in the wrong circumstances and pushed too far. So often, we need to look at each other with more depth than just demonising - the monster is a coping with their interpretation of an ugly world - its not an identity  - do you agree?

Monster Lyrics 

They don’t know
From where you came
They have no idea
How you were shaped
When something pure
Is pressured with pain
It may endure
But expect the stain

As the insults flowed
That stain would grow
Pushed you to a dark 
Heavy new low
Severed from decency
Your destiny was set
You hadn’t fathomed
That identity yet

Who chooses this?
It wasn’t your decision
To let the evil express
With dark precision

You're the monster
Everyone fears
The monster (Monster)
Bringing many to tears
The monster
Wreaking havoc
Wherever you go 
The Monster (Monster) 
The Monster (Oh) 
The Monster (Oh) 
The Monster (Oh)

I look at you
I see right through
If only I could find
A way to you
While believing in you
You cut me to pieces
You couldn’t help yourself 
You had to feed it

Who chooses this?
It wasn’t your decision
To let the evil express
With dark precision

You’re a monster
Everyone fears
The monster (Monster)
Leaving many in tears
The monster (Monster)
Raising hell wherever you go
The Monster (Monster) 
The Monster (Oh) 
The Monster (Oh) 
The Monster (Oh)

What took you there
Surely can bring you back
The thread of hope
Prevents my attack
I see that look in your eye
Push my defences down 
Only for you to strike me 
Hard to the ground

I am in two worlds
With no way out 
The one where I hurt 
Or burn you down 
I believe in miracles
But you feed my doubts 
I am human too 
With a monster to come out

And as the days pass by 
And the hurt builds up
The monster I become
For the world to cut

Who chooses this?
It wasn’t my decision
To let the evil express
With dark precision

I’m now the monster
You also fear
The monster (Monster)
Leaving you in tears
The monster (Monster)
Raising hell wherever I go
The Monster (Monster) 
The Monster (Oh) 
The Monster (Oh) 
The Monster (Oh)

Hurt people hurt people 
I get it now
I must retire the dark forces
I need to figure out how
Now (Now, now, now) 
But how (How? How? How?)

Who chooses this?
It isn’t our decision
To let the evil express
With dark precision

We are the the monster
We all do fear
The monster (Monster)
Leaving many in tears
The monster (Monster)
Raising hell wherever we go
The Monster (Monster) 
The Monster (Oh) 
The Monster (Oh) 
The Monster (Oh)

Monster

I create music as a hobby and as a therapy and provide workshops for others to do that too, using AI to help produce tracks. I also create empowerment systems to help people at scale increase their confidence and resilience by engaging their adaptive nature and work towards living a purposeful life. While all my song lyrics are written by me, and some tracks come from my personal compositions including instrumentals that I add lyrics to, I use AI to merge these with songs I share with you here. It really makes you realise how important your own words are in a song.

Monster

George V Musing