LULLABAY

On candystripe legs the spiderman comes

Softly through the shadow of the blissfully dead

Looking for the victim shivering in bed

Searching out fear in the gathering gloom

Suddenly! 

A movement in the corner of the room!

And there is nothing I can do

When I realise with fright that

The spiderman is having me for dinner tonight!

Quietly he laughs shaking his head creeps

Closer now closer to the foot of the bed

And softer than shadow and quicker than flies

His arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes

"Be still be calm be quiet now

My precious boy

Don't struggle like that or I will only love

You more for it's much too late to get away or

Turn on the light

The spiderman is having you for dinner tonight"

And I feel like Ìm being eaten

By a thousand million shivering furry holes

And I know that inthe morning

I will wake up in the shivering cold

And the spiderman is always hungry...

Lullabay, The Cure