Upside Down
Verse 1Streetlight hum, dead moths in the glass
sky wrong-side out and grinning, Asphalt sweats
worms boil up, dead leaves glued down like flayed skin
Wind runs backward through the trees
branches claw for the ground
Somewhere the town still pretends it’s fine while this copy chews on its outline.
You breathe and the fog tastes burned
You blink and the houses grow teeth
Mailboxes melt into ribcages
Stop signs bend into hooks.
Every step lands softer than it should
like the floor wants you deeper
Potholes open into throats, chewing on sneakers
swallowing tread, Power lines sag into spiderwebs
humming flat, hungry, low
The air itself feels carnivorous
eager to file you under missing.
ChorusWelcome to the Upside Down, kid
Your shadow crawls off and hides behind you
Your heartbeat taps on the wrong side of your ribs
Gravity knows your name and still lets go.
Verse 2Trees rot standing, bark blistered
sap black and slow as oil, Vines move when you do
looping your path, tying memories in knots
Snow that is not snow falls in slow motion, ash-flakes
skin-flakes, whatever
Each piece that lands on your jacket sinks in like a tick with no body.
You shout and the echo comes back with more teeth than sound
You run and the road stretches, rubber band distance
Your breath fogs inside your skull instead of in the air
Every blink takes a frame out of the film and replaces it with meat.
ChorusWelcome to the Upside Down, kid
Here the town you love hangs gutted on hooks
Every creek, every ditch
every culvert wears a second face
You either drag someone out or the floor learns your bones by weight.
BridgeSomething huge moves behind the sky, slow
patient, bored
You feel its fingers in the street cracks
tapping your shoe soles, Streetlights cough spores
alleyways sweat pulse
You swing your nailed bat at nothing and still hit veins.
You remember the warm version of this block, Bikes
ice cream melt, dumb crushes, wasted afternoons
Now the same corner is a hole full of teeth
Same address, different appetite.
Verse 3You hear the other side faint through the concrete
Kids yelling about dinner, TV laugh tracks
dogs losing their minds, Then it all cuts
like someone hit mute on mercy
Only the wet scrape of something big pulling itself closer.
You spit on the ground and it climbs the loam instead of sinking
You touch a wall and it shivers like an animal
Every doorframe eyes you like a throat
Every hallway dares you to blink first.
Final ChorusThis is the Upside Down, kid, Not hell
not heaven
just the same town turned inside out and weaponized
It already knows who you miss and what you fear
It will wear those faces if you stay too long.
So you moveFast, ugly, loud, Blood in your teeth
nails in your grip, Ready to hurt the dark back
Before it figures outHow to flip youAnd hang you hereForever.