This song is about the private ritual of escaping. Unlocking the part of yourself that holds everything you don’t want to look at, lighting the match, and stepping into a distorted universe where the monsters feel clearer than real life. For a little while you’re free. Then the hours pass and you have to lock it back up, put the mask on, and return to the version of you the world expects. I wrote it from the place of needing that escape and then having to come back anyway. The repeated “Open” is both the craving and the exhaustion of it. By the end it’s quieter — still here, still a work in progress, still opening the box even when you wish you didn’t need to.more