Lyrics
[Intro] [distorted guitar chugging, industrial synth textures, heavy drum fill] [Verse 1] [whispered female vocals] Welcome to Wonderland [melodic male vocals] Where the walls all learn your name [melodic female vocals] Where the toys all turn their faces [melodic male vocals] When you try to hide your shame [melodic female vocals] Welcome to Wonderland [melodic male vocals] Leave your skin beside the door [melodic female vocals] We kept every little nightmare [melodic male vocals] You pretended to ignore [growled male vocals] (Go!) [Instrumental Break] [fast double-kick drumming, syncopated guitar riffs] [Verse 2] [melodic male vocals] I still remember cereal bowls and cartoons in the static Blanket forts became a coffin when the silence turned traumatic [melodic female vocals] I remember running barefoot through the grass behind the house Back when fear was just a shadow, not a hand across my mouth [melodic male vocals] Crayon suns on paper plates, now they melt down black and red Every drawing on the fridge has hollow eyes and hanging heads [Pre-Chorus] [female vocals] Come and see, come and see We kept the lights off [male vocals] Come and see, come and see [screamed male vocals] You'll never get out! [Chorus] [melodic female vocals] I thought growing up would save me, I thought time would kill the truth [melodic male vocals] But I buried something breathing and it learned to wear my youth [duet] Welcome to Wonderland, I forgot the way back home I was busy getting colder, left a little ghost alone Welcome to Wonderland, where the past is not a grave It's a room beneath the floorboards where the daydreams misbehave Welcome home, welcome home [male vocals] You don't get to cry alone Welcome home [screamed female vocals] I left him there! I locked the door! I made it strong! Now every child haunts a god! Comes out wrong! [Instrumental Break] [heavy industrial synth bass, distorted guitar stabs] [Verse 3] [melodic male vocals] I miss the sound of summer rain, but now it scratches at the glass Every road I thought was endless only circles back to ash [melodic female vocals] I miss my mother's tired singing from the kitchen down the hall Now the melody is rotting in the corners of the wall [melodic male vocals] I miss believing birthdays mattered, that the candles meant a wish Now I count the years in damage and the things I can't forgive There's a box inside my closet where I keep the small of me Plastic crown and paper dragon, both the burying rod and tree [Pre-Chorus] [female vocals] We saved your tiny rocket, we saved your muddy shoes We saved the secret language that the monsters taught to you [male vocals] We saved your little drawings, we saved your favorite song [screamed male vocals] We saved the part that wondered why you had to hurt so long! [Bridge] [melodic female vocals] I used to laugh with my whole body, I used to cry and let it rain [screamed female vocals] Now I swallow every feeling till it screams inside my veins! [Chorus] [duet] Welcome to Wonderland, I forgot the way back home I was busy getting colder, left a little ghost alone Welcome to Wonderland, where the past can't be forgiven Where the child I stopped protecting built a throne from what was missing Welcome home, welcome home You don't get to cry alone Welcome home [Outro] [soft melodic male vocals] Little me, I'm sorry, I made you disappear I thought if I became heartless, then nothing could get near [soft melodic female vocals] I'm sorry for the silence, for the dreams I let decay [male vocals] For every time I called you weakness when you begged me not to change [duet] You were never wrong for feeling, you were never weak for fear You were just a child screaming, but nobody wanted to hear [female vocals] We kept your place beneath the window, we carved your name into the tree [male vocals] We fed the moon your little secrets, we taught the dark to look like me [duet] We kept the door a little open, we kept the lantern in the rain We knew someday you'd come back broken and we'd make you play again [screamed male vocals] Welcome home! To the room you made! Every dream you killed learned to dance from the ground! I am the child! I am the ghost! I am the woe that you're needing most! No way out! No way out! Wonderland is burning now! [melodic male vocals] Welcome to Wonderland, I am crawling through the door I am tired of being older than the bloodstains on the floor Welcome to Wonderland, I can't hold what I became But the child in the garden hides my face and speaks my name Welcome to Wonderland, where the lost are never found Where the grown-up falls down screaming and the child drags him underground Welcome home, welcome home You were never all alone Welcome to Wonderland, I remember now Leave your shoes beside the door You can't leave anymore [distorted guitar fade out]