Lullaby

On candy stripe legs The Spiderman comes Softly through the shadows 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 prrr A movement in the corner of the room And there is nothing I can do I realise in fright That the Spiderman is having me For dinner tonight Quietly he laughs "Ha-ha" Shaking his head Creeps closer now Closer to the foot of the bed And softer than shadows And quicker than flies His arms are all around me His tongue in my eyes "Be still, be calm, be quiet now my precious boy Don't struggle like that I will only love you more For it's much too late to get away 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 The Spiderman is always hungry "Come into my parlour" said the spider to the fly "For I have a little something here"