The Basement
[Intro]
(You're safe)
(Downstairs)
(You're safe)

[Verse 1 - Matthias Ryans]
Down here, I feel safe
There's no place that's quite the same
They all want me to leave
And be someone that's just not me
Upstairs, I don't feel like I should
I feel just so misunderstood
Pray to god
That I might change
So I don't have to cry today
I'm building walls so they can't see
See the monsters inside me
But in the basement I feel free
Cuz I don't need walls when it's just me

(Welcome to the basement)
[Chorus - Matt Braxton & Matthias Ryans]
The basemеnt is my home
In the basemеnt, I'm not alone
All these walls, they know
How the words [?] chose
The monsters run away
And all the demons fade

(They're upstairs)
(You're safe)

[Verse 2 - Matt Braxton]
I got this all, bottled up inside
That fear reinforce some [?] lies
My therapist told me that I'd be fine
And that this all goes away with time
But I just think, that I need to breathe
They prescribed me with pills
But others say, that I need weed
Here's the bottle, (Give me pills!)
At least that's what society says
At least that's what it says to my friends
If they all grow up, and leave me behind
In this basement, I'll confide

[Chorus - Matt Braxton & Matthias Ryans]
The basement is my home
In the basement, I'm not alone
All these walls, they know
How the words [?] chose
The monsters run away
And all the demons fade
If these walls could talk
They'd tell the story
The story about a broken kid
They'd talk about him forever
They'd talk about how they'd comfort him
They'd taught him that, if he tried
Life would never pass him by
The way he looks, any year
All the seasons, the pain inside
The pain he caused, the pain of life
The pain of living knowing why
Cuz if he was made for a reason
Then why is he still terrified

(Welcome to the basement)

[Chorus - Matt Braxton & Matthias Ryans]
The basement is my home
In the basement, I'm not alone
All these walls, they know
How the words [?] chose
The monsters run away
And all the demons fade