Don't be TOO afraid of the dark. |
BOGEYS If you put a dime upon the tracks It will derail a train And your hair will be much softer If you wash it in the rain The bogeyman eats little girls Who will not go to bed When I was young, people told me all of this And I believed all that they said It took everyone, I must confess A long time to convince That if I'd kiss a frog upon its nose He'd become a handsome prince One night, I decided that these mysteries Should be solved once and for all So I grabbed my purse and packed a bag And crept slowly down the hall My next stop was kitchen To find our sharpest knife In case a bogeyman should force me To fight him for my life I snuck outside to the back porch Feeling sufficiently insane As I stood there in the midnight storm And shampooed out in the rain My hair did feel a little different So I walked down to the street But a fleeting shadow caught my eye And a frightened chill froze my feet Once the terror from me passed I headed for the train station That shadow was just nothing, right? Just my wild imagination I came to the intersection quickly And again, my feet stopped dead There was something in the shadows across the street Telling me I should have gone to bed I shivered and shook and looked again But what ever was there had gone I knew I should have just gone home But I forced myself to press on The train tracks lay before me Like sleeping snakes made out of steel I set down the dime and hurried along Ignoring the guilt I began to feel I knew this night was nothing but A time of impending doom And I knew there was a person Staring at me from the gloom I drew my knife from its pocket-sheath As I neared the pond at Ashton Park The trees around me were hungry giants Waiting for me in the dark I sat down on the pond's muddy bank And I heard a tiny splash But was distracted by a person amongst the trees When the lightning gave a flash I heard a plop and saw before me A grimy little creature I gently took it in my hands And inspected its every feature Did I really want to kiss that thing? The very thought had made me wince But I changed my mind and became determined To make this frog a prince But I froze up once more, for in the distance I heard A train pass slowly by I heard metal screeching and tearing apart And felt so guilty that I cried Even as the tears rolled down my cheeks I kissed the frog's green face And suddenly I found myself In a young man's warm embrace "It's true!" I cried, and stumbled back To view my mystical friend He smiled at me, and pulled me close And I kissed him once again "It's time to go to bed now You're awake extremely late Sneaking out is not a way To find yourself a mate." With shock, I pulled away from the prince Who once had been a frog And what I saw was the dark person who'd followed me But had hidden in the fog "What happened to my friend?" I sobbed "I want no bogeyman!" "I'm sorry I'm no prince," he said "A bogey is all I am." "But I don't want to hurt you I just want to keep you safe And I wanted to help you with all your questions And the answers for which you have craved." The bogey cradled me in his arms And carried me into the sky He dropped me gently back into me bed And I finally got some shut eye |