Horror is a Human Being - Cursive

I took confession for my sins

The priest received me with

A hint of insolence

Like he’s some fuckin' saint of piety

I told him things I’ve never told

How I awoke and swore

I’d had the darkest dream

But it was real as real can be:

In the night I heard a scream

I ran out to the street

The moon a bloody yolk above me

I saw the beast with my own two eyes

I saw the beast and it spared my life

It saw something in me

I wish it hadn’t seen

I lived to tell the tale

So I could lead the little lambs to slaughter

«Who of you would care to see

The razor claws, the gnashing teeth!»

Oh please, the beast is near and dear

Your fears, it’s just a hall of mirrors—

Familiar freaks

Horror is a human being

In the night I heard a scream

I cried out for my love

Her nightgown strewn across the bedroom

I heard the beast in the barren night

I heard the beast and I realized

I’d damned myself again

Unleashed a demon kin

The darkness of a man

Can spread across a village like a virus

«Who of you would care to see

The Hitlers, the Mussolinis!

Fathers and sons locked in arms

Marching down your very street!»

Oh please, just turn on your TV

It’s there — it isn’t history

But soon we’ll be

Horror is a human being