Demons

Steven Malcolm raps about a mind under siege. The hook repeats the same complaint, "I got these demons in my brain," voices that tell him to slow down and insist nobody far away could understand. The verses get specific: lies he told, being "lost and confused," and a devil trying to "block my shine" while he sticks and moves like Ali.

The second half turns more personal. He describes voices that name his worth and pull him "into the dark like curfew until I break," then admits to wishing he were dead at fourteen after people who claimed love never saw him for who he was. Looking for love in the wrong places only added damage. Yet a plain prayer sits in the middle of the fight, "Lord I pray you take the pain," and the closing lines return to "the place where it began" as the way back.

Spiritual warfare and mental struggle are treated as one battle here, which makes the song a candid fit for 1 Peter 5:8 and Ephesians 6:12. Psalm 34:17 supplies the answer the lyric reaches for, a God who hears the cry of the crushed and brings them out of trouble.