Scared At Night

As a child I would wake at night

I was scared but I kept real quiet

Shadows on the walls moving in on me...

And underneath my sheets I could barely breathe

And your room was only just across the hall

All it would have taken was a single call

But maybe sometimes we've got to trust ourselves not to scream out loud, and run like hell...

Believe me, all our days here are unsure

Believe in me, I don't want to anymore

And in the dark, picture me in your mind

And I'll lay with you

You don't have to be scared at night

As a young man you were shooting rats

By accident you hit the farmyard cat

He ran for the fields and came back the next day

You'd blown out his eye and you could see his brain

That's it boy, there is some things in life, you don't want to do, but you know is right

So take him out back and finish him off

Got your gun off the shelf, it only took one shot

And I flew away and I paid on your final day

They said that you waited 'til I came

We sang your favorite hymns and we held your hand

You took your final breath and that was that

But I'd never seen a person die before

I tried so hard not to cry and all...

'Cause maybe sometimes we've got to trust ourselves, that when you die you go some place else

You don't have to be scared at night

You don't have to be scared at night