Demons Surround Me (2026)

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** Shhh... You hear that? Every time the room get quiet... that's when they start talking. *(Pick up... pick up...)* I ain't answering. --- ##

**Demons surround me all the ti-i-ime...** *(All the time... all the time...)* I close my eyes but they still inside my mind. **Demons surround me all the ti-i-ime...** *(Ah-ah-ah...)* Something on the other end keeps calling on the psychic line. **Ring-ring... I ain't picking up.** **Ring-ring... they ain't giving up.** Every shadow moving when I turn out the light— **Demons surround me...** **ALL THE TIME.** *(All the time... all the time...)* --- ##

Woke up at three with a knock at the door, Look through the peephole—ain't nobody anymore. Phone start ringing but the screen don't glow, Voice in my head say, **"You already know."** Hold up— Paranoid, hearing noises in the walls, Shadows getting longer when I'm walking through the halls. Something keep whispering my name from behind, Turn around quick—ain't nobody in sight. Am I losing my mind? Or seeing the signs? Seven on the clock and the numbers align. Tick-tock, don't stop, heartbeat jump, Cold wind blow but the windows shut. Everybody tell me it's all in my brain, 'Til they spend one night and start hearing the same. Now who crazy? I been running from the darkness since a youngin', Every time I think I lost it, feel it coming. Got a Bible by the bed and my eyes on the ceiling, 'Cause whatever's in this room— **I can feel it breathing.** --- ##

**Demons surround me all the ti-i-ime...** *(All the time... all the time...)* I close my eyes but they still inside my mind. **Demons surround me all the ti-i-ime...** *(Ah-ah-ah...)* Something on the other end keeps calling on the psychic line. **Ring-ring... I ain't picking up.** **Ring-ring... they ain't giving up.** Every shadow moving when I turn out the light— **Demons surround me...** **ALL THE TIME.** --- ##

Crossroads, lost souls, walking where the fog rolls, Black clothes, cracked roads, everybody got ghosts. Who knows what waits when the heartbeat stops? When the body goes cold and that last tear drops? **Zoom!** From the womb to the tomb, better move when it comes, Hear the boom in the room but there ain't no drums. Something scratching underneath my floor, Something whispering, **"Come and open the door."** Hell nah— Back up, get away, ain't playing today, I've been fighting these thoughts trying to stay in my lane. But the deeper I sleep, the closer they creep, And they know every secret that I buried underneath. Premonitions— See the ending before it begins, See the faces of enemies disguised as friends. Everybody got a demon they don't want you to see, Difference is— **Mine keep talking to me.** Phone ring— **Who's there?** Nothing but breathing. Phone ring— **Who's there?** Same damn feeling. Third ring, voice say, **"We been waiting for you."** CLICK. I ain't talking to you. --- ##

*(Ahhhhh...)* **Don't pick up that line...** *(Don't pick it up...)* Some things calling you ain't supposed to be answered. **Don't pick up that line...** *(Leave it alone...)* Some doors only open once. --- ##

Now I'm sitting in the dark trying to separate What's real, what's fear, what's love, what's hate. Every scar got a story, every nightmare a face, Every ghost from my past still remembers my name. Maybe demons ain't horns and fire in the night, Maybe demons are memories you keep trying to fight. Maybe demons are regrets that you can't undo, Or that voice in your head saying, **"Nobody loves you."** Maybe that's why they follow wherever I go, Why the room gets colder when I'm sitting alone. Why the past comes knocking when I'm finally okay, Trying to drag me backwards to my darkest days. But I ain't going. No. I done walked through the valley with my soul barely breathing, Had a thousand reasons to quit— **I'm still here for a reason.** So ring that phone. Let it ring all night. Let the shadows come close. I'm done living in fright. You can whisper my name, You can wait outside— But there's one damn thing you ain't taking tonight: **MY LIFE.** --- ##

**DEMONS SURROUND ME ALL THE TI-I-I-IME...** *(All the time! All the time!)* I close my eyes but they still inside my mind. **DEMONS SURROUND ME ALL THE TI-I-I-IME...** *(Ah-ah-ah-ahhhh...)* Something on the other end keeps calling on the psychic line. **Ring-ring... I ain't picking up.** *(Don't pick it up!)* **Ring-ring... I done had enough.** They can follow every step till the day that I die— **Demons surround me...** *(Surround me...)* **Demons surround me...** *(All the time...)* **DEMONS SURROUND ME...** **ALL. THE. TIME.** --- **

** *Ring...* *Ring...* *Ring...* *(whisper)* **Don't