In "Afterdark," Melissa Bonny turns a betrayal into a supernatural reckoning, where the one who fed on another's tears now faces a shadow that hunts back. The dripping blood and freezing veins make fear physical, while the chorus flips power so completely that the former predator is told to pray. The bridge's loss of religion and composure shows that old defenses fail when the hunter becomes the prey. It leaves the feeling that vengeance is not just deserved but already arriving, and no prayer will stop it.
Afterdark Lyrics by Melissa Bonny
It’s supernatural how I love to watch them burn
The little pieces of your dreams forever yearn
Tell me baby don’t you feel alive
When you’re running for your life (Ahh-ahh)
Baby, do you hear that sound?
Drip, drip, drop
Now your blood is freezing
When you meet me after dark
When my shadow comes to life
Will you pray to your God?
(Now your blood is freezing, freezing)
What goes around comes back to haunt you
The animal knows how to hunt too
Will you pray to your God?
Cross my heart and hope you’re bleeding
It kinda feels like a ritualistic vow to taste your fears
For all the times that you worshiped your reflection in my tears
Tell me baby don’t you realize
At the end of the line (Ahh-ahh)
Baby, I’m the one who smiles
Drip, drip, drop
And you’re the one on the ground
When you meet me after dark
When my shadow comes to life
Will you pray to your God?
(Now your blood is freezing, freezing)
What goes around comes back to haunt you (Haunt you)
The animal knows how to hunt too (Whoa-ho)
Will you pray to your God?
Yeah, you’re losing your religion
Self-induced ignition
I’m your perfect superstition now
Yeah, losing your composure
You know it’ll be over soon
You breathe a little faster, breathe
Woah-ho! What are you waiting for?
Ohhh!
(They won’t bring you back to life)
Are you sorry now?
Tired of fighting and running away?
Well, where’s your God?
Oh, how I love when the hunter becomes the prey
(Tell me baby don’t you feel alive?)
(Tell me baby don’t you feel alive?)
(Tell me baby don’t you feel alive?)
I didn’t pray for your demise
But my shadow came to life
(When you meet me)
When you meet me after dark
When my shadow comes to life
Will you pray to your God?
(Now your blood is freezing, freezing) (Ohh, pray to your God)
What goes around comes back to haunt you
The animal knows how to hunt too
Will you pray to your God?
Cross my heart and hope you’re bleeding