[INTRO — WARPED TAPE / DISTANT FEEDBACK] (Detuned guitar, cassette hiss, distant ghost choir) Ahhhhhhh... Something in the garden Has been growing in the dark. Something in the bedroom Has been scratching at my heart. [VERSE 1 — BREATHY, YOUTHFUL FALSETTO] There's a hole in the ceiling Where the afternoon goes And a face in the wallpaper That nobody knows I've been sleeping in my sneakers With the windows open wide Letting all the strange little colors Come and crawl inside The television flickers Like it's trying to speak While the floorboards bend and whisper All the things I couldn't keep I can hear the summer screaming Through the telephone wire There's a little version of me Getting dressed in the fire [PRE-CHORUS — GUITARS SWELL] Oh, I think I'm changing But I don't know into what There's a thousand little voices In the spaces I forgot And the walls are getting thinner And the sky is turning green I can feel something awakening In the space between— [CHORUS — EXPLOSIVE FUZZ / MASSIVE DRUMS] SOMETHING'S HATCHING IN THE GARDEN! Something's clawing at the sun! I've been waiting for a lifetime For the damage to be done! OH, I'M BREAKING OUT OF EVERYTHING! Every little lie I learned to be! There's a monster in the mirror And it looks a lot like me! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT! I can hear it calling now! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT! I don't wanna turn back now! [POST-CHORUS — GHOSTLY HARMONIES] Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah... Something beautiful is dying... Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah... Something ugly learned to fly... [VERSE 2 — WOOZY GARAGE GROOVE] We were kings of the car park With our shoes full of rain Making promises to people We would never be again You had stars in your pockets I had holes in my jeans We were laughing at the future Like it wasn't watching me Now the houses look abandoned Though the lights are always on And the faces in the windows Look like people I have wronged I keep driving past the playground Where the old swings used to squeal Trying to remember if the world Was always this unreal And I swear I saw you standing Where the street bends out of sight With a halo made of headlights And your hands full of July You were smiling like you knew it Like you'd seen this all before Then the headlights passed right through you And you weren't there anymore [PRE-CHORUS 2 — RISING DISTORTION] Oh, I think I'm changing And the change is getting loud There's a crack across the heavens There's a shadow in the clouds And the thing beneath the floorboards Has been calling me by name If I open up my mouth now Will I ever sound the same? [CHORUS 2 — WIDER, MORE CHAOTIC] SOMETHING'S HATCHING IN THE GARDEN! Something's clawing at the sun! I've been waiting for a lifetime For the damage to be done! OH, I'M BREAKING OUT OF EVERYTHING! Every little lie I learned to be! There's a monster in the mirror And it looks a lot like me! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT! I can hear it calling now! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT! I don't wanna turn back now! [NOISE INTERLUDE — GLITCHED VOCALS] In the garden... In the garden... Underneath the skin... Let it in... Let it in... LET IT IN! (Everything cuts to silence.) [BRIDGE — CLEAN GUITAR / ALMOST WHISPERED] Maybe I was never sleeping Maybe I was underground Maybe all the things I buried Were just waiting to come out Maybe growing up is dying In a thousand little ways Maybe every lost tomorrow Is a door that someone made I don't want to be a memory Inside somebody's room I don't want to be a photograph Of someone else's youth If there's something on the other side Of everything I've known I would rather meet the monster Than spend forever here alone [BUILD — HEARTBEAT DRUMS / DISTANT CHOIR] I hear it breathing... I hear it breathing... I HEAR IT BREATHING! IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE! IT'S ALIVE INSIDE! [FINAL CHORUS — CATHEDRAL-SIZED WALL OF SOUND] SOMETHING'S HATCHING IN THE GARDEN! LET THE ROOTS RIP THROUGH THE GROUND! LET THE SLEEPING THINGS AWAKEN! LET THE LOST ONES MAKE A SOUND! I'M BREAKING OUT OF EVERYTHING! EVERY LITTLE SKIN I'VE EVER WORN! I WAS NEVER MADE FOR HIDING! I WAS MADE TO BE REBORN! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT! LET THE WHOLE WORLD TURN AROUND! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT! LET THE SKY COME FALLING DOWN! I'M ALIVE! I'M ALIVE! EVEN IF I DON'T KNOW HOW! I'M ALIVE! I'M ALIVE! AND I'M NEVER GOING BACK NOW! [OUTRO — DETUNED GUITAR / TAPE COLLAPSE] (The band dissolves into feedback. The lead returns to a fragile whisper.) There's a hole in the ceiling Where the afternoon goes... There's a face in the wallpaper... And now I think it knows. (Distant choir) Something beautiful is dying... Something beautiful is born... (Whispered falsetto) I think I'm finally waking up. I think I'm finally... ...home. (Tape slows. One final guitar harmonic.) [END]
