SoulStatic Music - Monsters make Monsters

"Monsters make Monsters" is about a woman who knew exactly what monsters create, which is why she vowed the line would die with her. But pressure wears you down when love is dangled like a leash. He insisted, she broke, and a child was born into a story she never wanted to repeat. He calls it a family. She calls it the beginning of the ending she tried to avoid.

Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
I grew up in rooms where tenderness
never learned how to stay.
Every silence felt like danger,
every step gave me away.
I was shaped by people breaking
anything too soft to keep,
so I learned to hide my heartbeat,
trained my fears not to speak.

[Pre-Chorus]
I promised if I ever healed,
I’d end what I was taught,
no child deserves to inherit
the wars I grew up fighting.

[Chorus]
Monsters make monsters,
that’s the truth stitched into me.
I’ve spent years unlearning shadows
that still breathe beneath my ribs.
If protecting someone innocent
means choosing an empty home,
I’d rather stand alone forever
than pass the darkness on.

[Verse 2]
Then he came with quiet kindness,
like he understood the cracks.
He touched the places I kept hidden,
the ones that never let light back.
He spoke about soft mornings,
about building something whole,
but the thought of raising anything
with the damage in my soul.

[Pre-Chorus 2]
I told him I was terrified
of handing down my past.
He held my gaze and whispered,
“I need a future we can grow.”

[Chorus]
Monsters make monsters.
his words slipped under my ribs.
He didn’t mean to hurt me,
but he didn’t live where I once lived.
He could walk away untouched;
I’d collapse beneath the loss.
He dreamed of something hopeful,
I feared the cost.

[Bridge]
He was the only calm I’d found
in a lifetime full of storms,
the only warmth that didn’t ask
my heart to change its form.
So when he stepped a little back,
when his voice grew colder still,
the loneliness rushed at me
like something feral, something real.

[Breakdown]
I knew the right thing clearly,
the truth I should’ve said.
But the thought of life without him
pulled the ground out from my chest.

[Final Chorus]
Monsters make monsters…
I’ve heard it since I was small.
But losing the only peace I had
felt worse than risking it all.
So I folded in my reasons,
let his dream replace my own,
a future I never wanted,
but couldn’t face alone.

[Outro]
I stayed because he quieted
all the noise inside my head.
Not because I wanted to be a mother,
but because without him, I felt dead.
And maybe that’s the saddest truth
I’ll ever have to say:
sometimes love feels like safety,
and safety becomes the cage.