Soft Targets

~Lyrics~



Late night, porch light, bad sign
Grip tight, wood grain, flat line

Door knocks wrong in the dead of night
Shadows stretch just outside the light
Breathing loud through the gaps in sight
Heart beats fast, don’t think, just fight

Grab the bat, hold it just right
Swing first ‘cause fear don’t wait polite
Something cracks on the first hard strike
Hits the ground, bursts open bright?

More shapes form in the flicker light
Different faces, wrong proportions, height
Footsteps crunch but it don’t sound right
Ground turns slick beneath the fight

I don’t stop, I don’t invite
Questions die when instincts bite
If it moves, it meets the bat tonight
Every rule bends for the right to survive

Can’t think straight, vision tight
Every sound feels sharp as spite

Wave after wave in the streetlight
Crack and spill with every strike
I hold the line through the whole damn night
If they fall, then I might live, right?

Wave after wave, no end in sight
Swinging justice, knuckles white
Whatever breaks beneath my might
Stays down long enough to feel like I’m right

Sirens bloom in red and blue enemies surround me don’t know what to do
feeling pale and face went white
Backup comes but it don’t feel right
They move stiff, eyes too bright
Like strings pulled tight and out of sight

Badge flashes in the porch light
Authority joins the hive mind
If they’re gone, then I can’t be kind
Bat swings once, crosses that line

Every hit still bursts on sight
Why does it scatter, not divide?

Wrappers flash in the floodlight
Colors bloom where they collide
Air smells sweet, and that ain’t right
Why does fear taste like sugar tonight?

A scream cuts thin, high-pitched, shrill
Doesn’t match the threat I built
Math starts shifting mid-fight
Pieces slide into the light

Monster Piñatas? Jesus Christ!
It all makes sense in hindsight
Every swing was candy flight
Fear dressed truth in teeth and fright

Monster Piñatas, costumes split
Plastic masks and buckets hit
I didn’t battle hell tonight
I lost a war to Halloween night

So.. I guess that one was on me, my bad.