Monster In My Head

Michael Longcor

Appears on the albums Dangerous Heroes (1995) and Owlflight (2000). Michael's material is available from Firebird Arts and Music.

Monster in My Head

Words and music by Michael Longcor, 1994
Copyright ©2000 by High Flight Arts & Letters/BMI.
Used by permission.

I'm a kitten and a flower
I don't want no fame or power
I just want to smell the grass and feel the sun
I can't stand the sight of bleeding
I can't stand the sound of screaming
And I didn't do the things they say I done.

But there's a monster in my head.
There's a monster in my head.
There's a monster in my head,
And he thinks it's lots of fun.

It's an evil without color
It's a thing that harms its mother
It's a laughing boy who'd burn a crippled dog
It needs pain to fill the yearning
It needs blood to cool the burning
It needs screams to find a way out of the fog

'Cause there's a monster in my head.
There's a monster in my head.
There's a monster in my head,
And he don't see nothing wrong.

If I'm quiet as a spirit
It won't know that I'm here with it
If it knows I'm here it makes me go away
I don't like the things we're seeing
I don't like the thing we're being
I can't stop us and I know I'll have to pay.

Not the monster in my head.
There's a monster in my head.
There's a monster in my head,
And it wants to go and play.

I'm a kitten and a flower
I don't want no fame or power
I just want to smell the grass and feel the sun
I can't stand the sight of bleeding
I can't stand the sound of screaming
And I didn't do the things they say I done.

But there's a monster in my head.
There's a monster in my head.
I've got a monster in my head.
And it's having all the fun.

There's a monster in my head
There's a monster in my head
We've all got monsters in our heads.
And the monsters, they keep havin' all the fun.