American Gothic - Creature Feature

If there’s nothing in the darkness

Then why do you lie awake?

Something in the shadows

Is keeping you from sleep

What are you afraid of?

Hiding in the night

Haunting figures appear

In the corner of your eye

Is death waiting to lash out

Or a ghost behind the breeze

A devil in the cornfield

Or the beast among the trees

Are those wretched raving ravens

All harbringers of your doom

Is the black cat crossing your path

A prelude to your tomb

The sun falls like a guillotine

The dark comes alive with unsavory beings

Lock the door

And run and hide

And hold your breath

And you just might

Survive the night

Your safety’s false

Your logic’s skewed

Now your complacent

Point of view

Will be the true death of you

Are there creaks in the floorboards

When you’re alone in the room?

Are there footsteps in the attic

With each rising of the moon?

Strange sounds in the distance

Whatever could they be?

You’re powerless to the deadly

Foul things lurking unseen

The sun falls like a guillotine

The dark comes alive with unsavory beings

Lock the door

And run and hide

And hold your breath

And you just might

Survive the night

Your safety’s false

Your logic’s skewed

Now your complacent

Point of view

Will be the true death of you

Chattering teeth and rattling bones

Out in the blackness your nightmares grow

Dreadful thoughts make your blood run cold

The witching hour has taken hold

Deep in the bleak recess of your soul

Is where the terror makes its home

If there’s nothing in the darkness

Then why do you lie awake

Something in the shadows

Is keeping you from sleep