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Track 6 · Disintegration · Single

Lullaby

The Cure · 1989

Written by Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson, Boris Williams, Lol Tolhurst, Roger O'Donnell

4:08 Duration
212 Words

Credits: All lyrics by Robert Smith. Music credited to Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Roger O'Donnell, Porl Thompson and Boris Williams

Lyrics

[Intro]

I spy with the corner of my little eye

Something beginning with "S"

[Verse 1]

On candy-stripe 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

[Verse 2]

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

[Bridge]

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

[Outro]

"Come into my parlor," said the spider to the fly

"I have a little something here"

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