Monster

Skillet writes "Monster" from inside the cage. The narrator keeps a "secret side" under lock and key, warns others to stay away, and admits that the thing scratching at the walls is no longer easy to control. The images come from nightmare: something hiding under the bed, in the closet, in the dark with razor-sharp teeth, and then the sharper realization that it lives "in my body, in my head."

The refrain is a confession, "I must confess that I feel like a monster," followed by self-disgust in "I hate what I've become." Midway through, a plea cuts through the dread: "Why won't somebody come and save me from this?" The final verse admits that no one can hear the scream, and the narrator guesses the danger may be inside rather than outside.

The lyrics never name a rescuer, so the Christian reading is implicit rather than stated. The struggle over a divided self matches Paul's cry in Romans 7:15 and 7:24, asking who will deliver him from this body of death, and the answer he gives in Romans 7:25 points to Jesus Christ. For listeners, the song gives words to shame that is hard to say aloud.