Toy Box Run

Lyrics

Verse 1
I came through the gate, got the badge and the key
The lobby still grins like it’s watching me
Smiling critters on the wall, teeth too clean
But the floorboards talk when I step through the scene

GrabPack on my back, two hands, two straps
Red and blue snap when the old lights crack
Pulled that lever, whole place woke up mean
Like a dead-eyed factory with a fever dream

The train keeps chirping in the dark somewhere
And the air tastes cold like a bad dare
I seen that poster peel from the concrete
“Playtime’s forever,” yeah, that shit’s obscene

Pre-Chorus
Run, run, hear the steel door slam
Run, run, this place don’t care who I am
Run, run, got a child’s lost cry
Run, run, and the walls still lie

Chorus
Poppy in the box, let her out
Pop a lock, then I hear that shout
Toy room turns to a war zone now
Playtime’s dead, but it’s hunting loud

Pop, pop, Poppy in the box
Red hand reach when the whole thing stops
If I fall, I still get back up
This sweet little hell can’t break my jaw shut

Verse 2
Mommy long legs in the vents above
Stretching through the dark like a fucked-up glove
She talk too soft, then she strike too fast
Leave a smile-shaped scar on a broken glass past

I duck through the hall with the tape deck spin
Every VHS got a sin within
Experiment names and a voice gone thin
Like somebody buried the truth in a tin

Huggy in the blue, with that dead-eyed stare
Wide-mouth beast in the stairwell air
He came from the dark with a predator laugh
Had me praying to the cracks in the path

Then I hit that ride, that coaster from hell
Screaming through the turns in a rusted shell
Cat and mouse with a giant grin
In the factory maze where the nightmares win

Pre-Chorus
Run, run, hear the steel door slam
Run, run, this place don’t care who I am
Run, run, got a child’s lost cry
Run, run, and the walls still lie

Chorus
Poppy in the box, let her out
Pop a lock, then I hear that shout
Toy room turns to a war zone now
Playtime’s dead, but it’s hunting loud

Pop, pop, Poppy in the box
Red hand reach when the whole thing stops
If I fall, I still get back up
This sweet little hell can’t break my jaw shut

Verse 3
Down in the depth, found the truth in bones
Broken little rooms and the recorded moans
CatNap’s breath put the whole block out
Black smoke rolling while I’m swinging out

Saw the prototype in the hidden ward
All that hunger in a body so hard
Like a king of the junkyard, cold and still
With a maker’s smile and a butcher’s will

I chased the tapes through the catacomb lane
Through the church of toys and the factory pain
Every door wants blood, every switch wants trust
Every prayer in here turns back to rust

Poppy said “go” and I bit that wire
Blue hand caught me at the edge of the fire
I ain’t here for peace, I came for the truth
For the kids in the walls and the ghost of youth

Bridge
Half-time
Shh, hear the dolls in the vent
Hear the old machine repent
Shh, hear the little feet run
Too late now, here I come

Breakdown
Red hand, blue hand, break that lock
Click-clack, run when the screen goes black
Cold eyes, wide grin, teeth like knives
I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive

Final Chorus
Poppy in the box, let her out
Pop a lock, then I hear that shout
Toy room turns to a war zone now
Playtime’s dead, but it’s hunting loud

Pop, pop, Poppy in the box
Red hand reach when the whole thing stops
If I fall, I still get back up
This sweet little hell can’t break my jaw shut

Pop, pop, I’m still in the maze
Rave-room lights in a blood-red haze
If the factory wants my name
I’ll scream it back and burn this game