Lullaby
On candystripe
legs the spiderman comes
Softly through the shadow of the evening sun
Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
Looking for the victim shivering in bed
Searching out fear in the gathering gloom and
Suddenly!
A movement in the corner of the room!
And there is nothing I can do
When I realise with fright
That the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight!
Quietly he
laughs and shaking his head
Creeps closer now
Closer to the foot of the bed
And softer than shadow and quicker than flies
His arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes
"Be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy
Don't struggle like that or I will only love you more
For it's much too late to get away or turn on the light
The spiderman is having you for dinner tonight"
And I feel
like I'm being eaten
By a thousand million shivering furry holes
And I know that in the morning I will wake up
In the shivering cold
And the spiderman
is always hungry...
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Robert
on 'Lullaby'...
"'Lullaby' is my least favourite track, but
I suppose it's a sensible choice because it sounds very Cure-like."
"London Times 26th April 1989 on Lullably being releases as a
single)
"That's the sort of lullaby my Dad used to sing when I was younger.
He used to make them up. There was always a horrible ending. There
would be something like 'Sleep now, pretty baby,' and then there'd
be an 'Or you won't wake up at all' coda to the song."
(Chicago Tribune, 27th August 1989)
"When I was really young I had a very strange uncle (also called
Robert!) who delighted in finding as many ways to scare me witless
as he could. One of his favourites was to whisper grim bedside stories
into my ear, stories that often related the twisted deeds of a horrible
boy-eating creature called simply 'The Spiderman'. One night he actually
went so far as to climb in through my bedroom window after the lights
had been put out... I screamed for what seemed like days. The 'Spiderman'
stories ended that night, but my fear of the dark and spiders persisted
for quite some time... the video won the bpi 'video of the year' award...
so I suppose thankyou Uncle Robert, wherever you are now..."
(September 1997)
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Lullaby
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