Lyrics

If you get too close or try to know me
I may infect you and make you change
Turn your spouse into a free thinker
Replace your safe world with one that’s strange

Not a monster
Not a mutant
Just your average next door chimera

I stretch your brain, distort your worldview
I defy all category
I live inside your sordid nightmares
I’m flesh and blood, not allegory

Not a spectre
Not a demon
Just your average next door chimera

But I vote in your elections
I teach your kids inside the classroom
I pay my taxes, invest your money
I fix your car, put food on your table.

I may be Kraken (or is it Behemoth?)
My existence to you is ambiguous
Like Medusa, maybe Charybdis
lurking beneath the waves of your consciousness

Not a zombie
Not malignant
Just your average next door chimera

Not a phantom
not a goblin
just your average next door chimera

Look away when I pass near you
Lest you turn to solid stone.
I infiltrate your dreams and leave you puzzled
Make you question all that you’ve known

Not a vampire
Not an ogre
Just your average next door chimera

Not a banshee
not a shadow
just your average next door chimera