Demons by Imagine Dragons

"I wanna hide the truth, I wanna shelter you, but with the beast         

                    inside, there's nowhere we can hide."

People often ask, “Why do I push away the ones I love? ” Maybe it is because deep down we know we will hurt them. We want to help them or protect them but we can’t because we are the threat.  

"Don't get too close, it's dark inside, it's where my demons 

                                               hide."

When people say hurtful things to me I feel alone; however, when I say hurtful things to myself, I realize I'm not alone because inside of me there are demons fighting. These demons are made of broken dreams, failed attempts, and heartbreaking mistakes. These haunting memories are a pain, nothing can ease, not even love. It's agony. Complete excruciating agony. It's like your heart has turned to stone and is stuck in your throat. You’re left: breathless. You don’t have the appetite to eat and suddenly you realize you don’t want to anyways. You can’t think straight and then one day, you can’t at all. It's the most intense pain that you'll ever feel, and the worst part is, there's no way to relieve it. Its unyielding and merciless torture and you know that it's yours for life.

"Curtain's call is the last of all, when the lights fade out, all the sinners crawl. So, they dug your grave and the masquerade will 

                come calling out at the mess you made."

Seeing people for who they really are is the most terrifying yet humbling experience. When you unmask someone and reveal their darkness, they still smile but when you’re not looking, they show they are just humble sinners on their hands and knees, like everyone else. They are waiting for you to fall because they know eventually you will.  

"Don't wanna let you down but I am hell-bound. Though this is 

                 all for you, don't wanna hide the truth."

We let go the ones we love because we don’t want to hurt them. We want to hide our demons, protecting the ones we love. However, sooner or later we show them our skeletons, admitting we are filled with darkness. They have the right to know who we really are, who people all really are. The truth may hurt them, it may make them hate us and scream of how they thought you were different. But at the end of the day we only broke them, to save them.

"They say it's what you make, I say it's up to fate. It's woven in 

                         my soul, I need to let you go."

Some people say that what you do and how hard you work determines the outcome of life. They say that if we wanted hard enough to let our past go that we could. This is a lie. You can’t let go. There’s nothing you can do to change it: your inner demons become a part of who you are.

   "Your eyes, they shine so bright, I wanna save that light."

Often times when we love someone we don’t see the demons they’re hiding. It’s not that we don’t want to, we can’t. Love is blind. We do however see their innocence, magnified.

         "I can't escape this now, unless you show me how."

We think we will be stuck depressed and miserable forever but when we meet 'the one' they prove us wrong. They change us. Yes, we will still have a pit of agony eating away at our hearts but through them, the pain will be bearable.