Afraid

[Instrumental]

Where oh where is the door
Where oh where is the door
Can’t seem to get up off the floor
Winter Spring Summer and Fall
Winter Spring Summer and Fall
They don’t exist here anymore

A storm blew in on a weak ill wind
In the photo booth we found
Spiritual Proof

Endless stairs bottomless pools
Endless stairs bottomless pools
This place abhors nature’s rules
Broken bells and rusted tools
Broken bells and rusted tools
Beneath your tongue my dinner cools

A storm blew in on a week ill wind
In the photo booth we found
Spiritual Proof

This is where the end begins
This is where the end begins
This is where the end begins
This is where the end begins

See the crying ladies dance
See the crying ladies dance
My eyes roll back I’m in a trance
Fell into this strange romance
Fell into this strange romance
It seems I hardly had a chance

A storm blew in on a weak ill wind
In the photo booth we found
Spiritual Proof

This is where the end begins
This is where the end begins
This is where the end begins
This is where the end begins

I’ve been thinking weird things
I’ve been seeing bad thoughts
All about you and me in the dark
All about you and me in the dark
In the dark in the dark
In the dark in the dark

I went to the peepshow
They were talking so freaky
All about you and me in the dark
All about you and me in the dark
In the dark in the dark
In the dark in the dark

Shadows move in streetlights
Writhing shapes so obscene
Just like you and me in the dark
Just like you and me in the dark
In the dark in the dark
In the dark in the dark
In the dark in the dark
In the dark in the dark

Here within the corn maze
They will learn to choke and shudder
When they see what we set free
In the dark in the dark
When they see what we set free
In the dark in the dark
In the dark in the dark
In the dark in the dark

Now that you’re dancing on my grave
It’s too late to be afraid
We’ll put an end to this charade
It’s too late to be afraid

I used to watch you through the keyhole
The girl I saw there I just didn’t know
What happened to you what’s your scheme?
Thought you were tough but you’re just mean
There’s no such thing as evergreen
What happened to you what’s your scheme?

Once there was something left to save
It’s too late to be afraid
A path peculiar we did pave
It’s too late to be afraid

We were to marry in September
A vow you claimed you didn’t remember
What happened to you what’s your scheme?
Thought you were tough but you’re just mean
There’s no such thing as evergreen
What happened to you what’s your scheme?

Soon all I was will start to fade
It’s too late to be afraid
Eternal things I never made
It’s too late to be afraid

The mirror could not hold your reflection
That night I swallowed your infection
What happened to you what’s your scheme?
Thought you were tough but you’re just mean
There’s no such thing as evergreen
What happened to you what’s your scheme?

The exorcism didn’t work
Everything on earth has failed me
Electric storm was blowing in
That night we all went crazy

Think I’m coming down with something
Something real bad
Oo I got the got the got the chills
Oo I got the got the got the chills

Frozen January lake I see you out there shaking
The fire that once burned in me
I feel it slowly fading

Think I’m coming down with something
Something real bad
Oo I got the got the got the chills
Oo I got the got the got the chills

Latey I have lost control
To me I am a stranger
This constant sense of déjà vu
And mystifying danger

Think I’m coming down with something
Something real bad
Oo I got the got the got the chills
Oo I got the got the got the chills

I can’t get warm
I cannot get warm
I can’t get warm
I cannot get warm
I can’t get warm
I cannot get warm
I can’t get warm
I cannot get warm

It dropped like a curtain from the sky
Nobody knew how or why
I was just sitting in my chair
Not doing much just sitting there
A rip in the fabric of time
A hole in the folds of my mind
I wanted so much for you to be here
To ease my doubt and sooth my fear

Oh I’ve been waiting for something to happen
All my life
But when something finally happened
I was petrified

Found my name etched into a tree
Among a list of things that should not be
Sap was dripping on the Autumn ground
I heard a voice say “turn around”
I looked into the face of Summer’s past
Through an old distorted sheet of melted glass
All the things I wanted most to see
Were better left to memory

Oh I’ve been waiting for something to happen
All my life
But when something finally happened
I was petrified
I was petrified

Take me into the unknown
Medusa Medusa
Turn this body into stone
Medusa Medusa

Snakes in her hair I don’t care
If you fear death best beware

Ferris wheel will not spin
Medusa Medusa
Stuck here in the dark again
Medusa Medusa

Snakes in her hair I don’t care
If you fear death best beware

Reality is an illusion
We’re flies in a web of confusion

Lighthouse beam cuts through the air
Medusa Medusa
Shadows hiding everywhere
Medusa Medusa

Snakes in her hair I don’t care
If you fear death best beware

Tie my heart into a knot
Medusa Medusa
Quickly then the tears will clot
Medusa Medusa

Snakes in her hair I don’t care
If you fear death best beware

Reality is an illusion
We’re flies in a web of confusion

Got up my courage and I left the house
To go to a show you told me about
You’d laugh if you knew that I slept on the street
Tapping my foot to your heart as it beats

I broke in your room and I painted it red
Then stood like a wolf at the foot of your bed
Why do you ignore me I just want to talk
You don’t have to see me we could sit in the dark

I guess that I’m sorry though I don’t know why
When I jump from your roof do you think I will fly?
Winter wind blowing across the field
Only the lonely know how it feels

Stayed up late reading monster magazines
Tried not to wake you
A certain mood hits when the stars appear
My god it shakes you
I want to go where you’re gonna be
I want to see all the things that you see
Tonights’s the night when the animals rise
The ground it cracks and the dead come to life

Tear me out by the roots so I don’t grow back
Tear me out by the roots so I don’t grow back

To the fair I went alone
I won a prize a kewpie doll
I’d never won anything in my life before
Its eyes were black its hair was brown
Upon its mouth it wore a frown
It looked like me
And it spoke to me in my voice

Kewpie doll kewpie doll
I don’t want to suffer anymore
Kewpie doll kewpie doll
Anything is possible at carnival

Shadows grew as darkness fell
A solemn light I felt unwell
The ferris wheel filled me up with vertigo
Tried to walk but I fell down
Onto the warm dry summer ground
My leg it cracked but nobody stopped to help me

Kewpie doll kewpie doll
I don’t want to suffer anymore
Kewpie doll kewpie doll
Anything is possible at carnival

With a sharp rock I cut my skin
Then kewpie doll it crawled right in
It took control and for me there is no more pain
Now I am free I do not care
What happens here or anywhere
Completely numb and I’ve never felt so alive

Kewpie doll kewpie doll
I don’t want to suffer anymore
Kewpie doll kewpie doll
Anything is possible at carnival

I’ll be working the night shift
Until the trouble is o’er
I’ll be working the night shift
Farewell to daylight hours

I’ll be be waiting
And I’ll be watching over you

So rest easy my weary ones
Rest easy tonight
It takes courage to run away
It’s a weakness to fight

The night shift is here
The night shift is here

I’ll be working the night shift
However long it may be
I’ll be working the night shift
Might last eternally

I’ll be be waiting
And I’ll be watching over you

So rest easy my weary ones
Rest easy tonight
It takes courage to run away
It’s a weakness to fight

The night shift is here
The night shift is here

I’ll be working the night shift
To stand where others did fall
I’ll be working the night shift
Behold the crumbling wall

I’ll be be waiting
And I’ll be watching over you

So rest easy my weary ones
Rest easy tonight
It takes courage to run away
It’s a weakness to fight

The night shift is here
The night shift is here