Boogie Man

The night is like a blanket that's suffocating the fire

With a bow to the string and a note from the choir

I believe, and that's about as far it goes

When you've been riding on the wings of a bloody murder of crows

Hold it all out, throw it into the wind

Let it lay down the line where the drama begins

Because if everything is covered and teetering on a whim

You can harmonize the sound of it's insecurity's hymn

When it's played, yeah, stripped down and shaved

Shipped off to battle in the shadow of the day

And if anything is salvaged from the battered up remains

You can sew it to your jacket and compensate for the pain

When it hits, when it speaks

Lick the blood right off of it's teeth

You'll grip those sheets in attempt to hide

And figure out that you've been running from the feeling of never leaving alive so

Hide, sleep with the lights on

You feel like you can be at peace with the lights on here

So cover up your face, and fight away that taste

That makes you want to run and hide, hide, hide

And sleep with the lights on

You stand up on your tiny feet when the night's gone here (Night's gone here)

When the night's gone here

Swallow that lump inside of your throat

Open up the closet and push aside all the clothes

You believe, and never needed more to be said

To leave you scared of that little gap between the floor and your bed

So you jump, leaping over all over your options

And retreat right back to that bed we call a coffin

To sleep, never actually getting a wink

Due to all the little devils that dance around in your dreams

And attack you, pull you under the bed with their hands

And take away the chance of you ever making a stand

And if anything actually ever went as you planned

That you could retrace the steps you ran

But only if it hits, if it speaks

You could fight it to the death in the streets

You'll grip those sheets in attempt to hide

And figure out that you've been running from the feeling of never leaving alive

So hide, you'll stay awake

So hide, we all know that you'll stay awake

Hide, sleep with the lights on

You feel like you can be at peace with the lights on here

So cover up your face, and fight away that taste

That makes you want to run and hide, hide, hide

And sleep with the lights on

You stand up on your tiny feet when the night's gone here (Night's gone here)

When the night's gone here