"Monster" is the thirteenth track and lead single from Starset's second album, Vessels. The audio for the song was released onto YouTube on October 28, 2016, and for purchase and streaming on November 4, 2016. An official music video followed on January 11, 2017.
At present, the song remains the band's highest ranking track to date, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart in 2017.
Background[]
In mid-October 2016, the song was played prior to a performance by the band at the Highline Ballroom in New York.[1]
Lyrics[]
Under the knife I surrendered
The innocence yours to consume
You cut it away, and you filled me up with hate
Into the silence you sent me
Into the fire, consumed
You thought I'd forget, but it's always in my head
You're the pulse in my veins, you're the war that I wage
Can you change me? Can you change me?
You're the love that I hate, you're the drug that I take
Will you cage me? Will you cage me?
You're the pulse in my veins, you're the war that I wage
Can you change me? Can you change me?
From the monster you made me
From the monster you made me
This is the world you've created
The product of what I've become
My soul and my youth, seems it's all for you to use
If I could take back the moment
I'd let you get under my skin
Relent or resist? Seems the monster always wins
You're the pulse in my veins, you're the war that I wage
Can you change me? Can you change me?
You're the love that I hate, you're the drug that I take
Will you cage me? Will you cage me?
You're the pulse in my veins, you're the war that I wage
Can you change me? Can you change me?
From the monster you made me
From the monster you made me
My heart's an artifice, a decoy soul
I lift you up and then I let you go
I've made an art of digging shallow holes
I'll drop the darkness in and watch it grow
My heart's an artifice, a decoy soul
Who knew the emptiness could be so cold?
I've lost the parts of me that make me whole
I am the darkness, I'm the monster
You're the pulse in my veins, you're the war that I wage
Can you change me? Can you change me?
You're the love that I hate, you're the drug that I take
Will you cage me? Will you cage me?
You're the pulse in my veins, you're the war that I wage
Can you change me? Can you change me?
From the monster you made me
From the monster you made me
From the monster you made me
From the monster you made me
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