The Thing Beneath Your Bed

Verse 1

Something's tapping on your windowpane tonight

Something gnaws and gnashes for a fright

The moon has pulled its hood up overhead

and every shadow has a set of teeth

Children tuck their covers to their chins

and pray the dark stays underneath

But I have crawled through keyholes and into your dreams

I know the creak your staircase makes

I know the note you make when you scream

Pre-Chorus

So bolt the windows

and bar the doors

and tell yourself

you've felt this fright before

Chorus

BOO!

Did you feel your heartbeat skip

BOO!

Did the cold crawl up your spine

I am the thing beneath your bed

The thought inside your head

The reason you leave on the light

Post-Chorus

(Oo, oo, oo

Oo,oo, oo)

Hahaha

Verse 2

I move your pictures half an inch to the left

so nothing in the house agrees

I breathe along your bedroom wall at night

and count the hours that you wheeze

I tuck a spider in your shoe

a little gift to tell you I was there

Your dog won't come inside tonight

He senses something wicked in the air

And I honestly find it rather amusing how you blame the wind

and whisper a little prayer

Pre-Chorus

So pull the blanket

to your eyes

and sing a tune

to drown out all the cries

Chorus

BOO!

Did you feel your heartbeat skip

BOO!

Did the cold crawl up your spine

I am the thing beneath your bed

The thought inside your head

The reason you leave on the light

Bridge

Little ones with lanterns

little ones with fright

little ones go running

running through the night

I follow every footstep

I flicker every flame

and when you turn around

you'll never be the same

Chorus

BOO!

Did you feel your heartbeat skip

BOO!

Did the cold crawl up your spine

I am the thing beneath your bed

The thought inside your head

The reason you leave on the light

outro

I hope you're tucked in tight

I hope the candle's bright

because I have been waiting all year

for a night like this

And I never knock

I never ring

I simply let myself in

BOO!

Hahaha