To truly understand my world, there's things you need to endure

Like sleep paralysis, have you had it before?

I can't move as I hear someone open my door

Silently panicking as I hear the creaks in the floor

When I finally see him, I can't see his face

Tells me his name, it's literally the sound of chains

He stands up and walks over to the stairs

Now he knows why I'm scared, he smiles and asks"Aren't your kids up there?"

And now he's walking up the stairs real slow

Taking his good old time laughing the whole way 'cause he knows

There's nothing I could do trying my hardest to get up

I'm desperately trying to scream the name of Jesus

But I can't because he beat me to the punch

Before I could say a thing, he tied my mouth shut

And now I feel my heart pounding, my chest gonna explode

The pressure gets worse and worse the further that it goes

I don't have words that can truly express

The full extent of the petrified distress

And when I finally get the strength to get up, I'm drenched

And I'm not sure if it's my tears or my sweat

Before he leaves, he looks at me and says"I had a good old time

Yeah, we should do this again

You'll love what I have planned for us next"

So now you know, so don't ask me why I wake up exhausted and stressed

I wouldn't say I'm afraid of the dark

I am petrified of what comes out in the dark

I can be all by myself

And when I turn the lights off, I am not alone

Do I have your attention? Do I got you listening?

You might think this is a gift, but I can promise it isn't

I might even accidentally bless you with the verse

Just understand, it's coming from my own personal curse

When people ask me about my flow, it's kind of like Edgar Allan Poe

Laced with a little hope, but I want you to feel the chill run up your spine

Anytime I feel the demon's finger running up mine

Christians tell me that I shouldn't write these songs

'Cause it gives Satan glory, but that's not the case

I'm just trying to tell the story how my own faith keeps enduring

'Cause in my life, having God is mandatory

And yeah, you're right, I'm dead afraid

I live in a world where I have no choice but have faith

'Cause I see things that would make an atheist pray

So I'm not gonna sit here and say it's all okay, nah

A mastermind of description, I take a picture in my head and depict

A scene so vivid like Quentin Tarantino without a camera

I take something that you hear and turn it to a vision

Now let me explain why I wear the cross around my chain

Because I know that there's power in Jesus' name

But with my mouth so shut, it's not one I can say

So I'm hoping the demon sees it and it works the same way (whoo)

When you're dreaming and you wake up, you realize that you were dreaming

But during sleep paralysis, you are cognitively functioning at full capacity

You just can't move, it's like a straitjacket

And when you finally can sit up, you realize that you just went through a traumatic experience

And it was real, and you realize that there are things that operate outside of this realm, and that is terrifying

And the only solace that you can find is the fact that God operates in every realm and He is always there