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Bedtime Stories

See the way the moon shines with an orange over tone

The way that all the dangerous creatures are the only ones that run alone

Pick up your syths and run like hell

because I know that soon you'll inhale that putrid smell

Rotting flesh becomes more of a most common seen thing

because when the beast lures you in, no one can hear your screams.

He runs around with a wolfish snout and large, red, beady eyes

He runs so fast you never see him, and when you do it's to late to realize

that he's coming for you so you have to get away

because the beast holds hell in his heart, so he doesn't care anyway

He'll rip your throat out and drain you down

and when he's done there'll be no sign around

So warn your little children during the kiss of night

that the big, bad beast will get them and suffocate them tight

Save yourself dusk of day, and don't take for granted what you see

Because when you least expect it, you'll understand, the beast lives in me.

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Dec 1, 2012
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