Editors - Lullaby lyrics

On candystripe 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

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
'Cause the spiderman is having
You for dinner tonight"
And I feel 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
The spiderman is always hungry
He's always hungry
The spiderman is always hungry