[Intro] Close your eyes, darkness my liar Monsters don’t wait, a false friar Whisper a hymn with your black teeth Kiss on the brow with lips that bleed [Verse 1] Curtains breathe though no wind calls Red tar drips down papered walls A music box we dared not find Now turns its key inside your mind [Pre-Chorus] One foot out, and one foot in — The music begins from cracking skin [Chorus] Dark lullaby, thread me with lies Sing me where the silence hides If I sleep, let me not drown But if I wake — don’t let me down [Verse 2] Taste of copper, candle ash Beneath the bed, a moving lash The closet breathes, it calls my name It croaks in rhymes — it knows my shame [Pre-Chorus] Don’t blink twice, the shape has grown It speaks in sleep, and not alone [Chorus] Dark lullaby, silk wrapped in spite Coiled around the throat of night Each line flows so cold and wide And every pause is a place to hide [Bridge] Teeth in time, and time in thread Hands that move where no prayers are said If I should fall where no one sees, Will I become the thing that feeds? [Final Chorus] Dark lullaby, final breath Crooned by mouths that promise death Let me go, or keep me tight Just lie to me again tonight [Outro] Close your eyes... Close your eyes... (We never sleep... we only hide)
