Bit of a Monster

It's all an elaborate stage show
Please won't you hold your applause
Adorned bouquets of withering roses
I've seen it
Seen it all before
I've been trying to ignore the symptoms
Of being full of myself
Bearing my teeth again
Oh dear
And still I'd wish you well

I've been headed to the top
Just to look back down
And over my shoulder
Every smile comes unwound again

I'm a little bit of a monster
Drowning myself in what you thought dried up yesterday
I'm a little bit of a monster
Holding my head up high to keep on breathing

Have I the luckiest cure all for the night
Why can't you tell
Why can't you tell
Why can't you tell
What I can't tell
Don't you know when you've been bitten
Don't you lie to me
Is there nothing more I can do
To see past my reflection

I'm a little bit of a monster
Drowning myself in what you thought dried up yesterday
I'm a little bit of a monster
Holding my head up high to keep on breathing

Help me understand
Can you know what I am
When the worst is over
I can be
What you see
What you see
In me

I've been headed to the top
Just to look back down
And over my shoulder
Every smile comes unwound again
Shadows dancing as
I raise my fist into the air
Others follow as the fangs
We once would bear are dulled

I'm a little bit of a monster
Drowning myself in what you thought dried up yesterday
I'm a little bit of a monster
Holding my head up high to keep on breathing

I'm a little
I'm a little bit
Of a monster
Oh