MC Frontalot, The Protomen, Kid Koala - Shudders lyrics

I wasn't the smartest boy in
The household by a longshot
I knew of wandering the graveyard that
It's best met with an onslaught
Of something called shudders
It's when your body trembles
And your heart skips, sputters
And you mutter counter-evils
And you grip on to your charms
I've never comprehended the alarm
Caused by things described variously as scary
Terrifying, ghastly could I
Follow this? Barely
Certainly never felt it never shuddered
And my pops
Sent me packing, called me bad luck kid
Head full of rocks i talked so loudly of my
Ignorance as I roamed
Complained I couldn't get frightened
And might have bemoaned
That I'd been disowned a
Friendly hangman beckoned
But, I partied with his danglers
Didn't shudder for a second
Then I heard about a castle in
The distance that was haunted
Nobody lasted there an evening could it be
Just what I wanted? Didn't know

Didn't know there was anything
In the world to be frightened of
Didn't know there was anything
In the world to be frightened of
Didn't know there was anything
In the world to be frightened of
Didn't know there was anything
In the world to be frightened of

I wasn't the first one to
Show up claiming bravery
The rumored ends of my
Predecessors were unsavory
They'd become the catering at a
Feast of ghouls and spirit's!
Neither the king nor his people
Would set foot near it
This seemed good fear
It glistened in their eyes as they spoke
I figured I could pick the habit up and go
(maybe all the way back home
Having understood shuddering)
Did the townspeople deem me
A simpleton? Utterly
What a first night it was
Too! The hell-beasts
Were like from a nightmare i think?
I don't get bad dreams
I tried to nap but the
Furniture floated and spun
We did some doughnuts in the stable yard! Fun
The second night's vigilance wasn't
Any more fruitful:
Zombies down the chimney till the
Whole rec room's full
All-bone nine-pin, glad I brought my lathe
Though I lost some money gambling
My denseness was unscathed

Didn't know there was anything
In the world to be frightened of
Didn't know there was anything
In the world to be frightened of
Didn't know there was anything
In the world to be frightened of
Didn't know there was anything
In the world to be frightened of

Third and final evening, my reanimated corpse
Cuddle-buddy tried to strangle
Me reliable sources
Report that I chucked him back
In his coffin and sighed
Despaired of finding shudders locally
And set to stride
Didn't I want my reward? The
Hand of the castle's princess?
A path to power and riches
And this is it's ingress?
And this is my dimness, I guess
But I choose to keep questing:
Find the next hypothesis of
Scariness and keep testing
But here's that princess requesting
That I reconsider and as I spy her she
Reminds me of my babysitter
A village girl I had a crush on as a lad
Who never even noticed that I
Couldn't make eye contact
This one's staring me down
She's used to getting her way
Been wearing a crown
Is she scaring me now, with
Her "Think about it, please,?"
I got this odd involuntary
Shaking in my knees

Didn't know there was anything
In the world to be frightened of
Didn't know there was anything
In the world to be frightened of
Didn't know there was anything
In the world to be frightened of
Didn't know there was anything
In the world to be frightened of

Didn't know there was anything
In the world to be frightened of
Didn't know there was anything
In the world to be frightened of
Didn't know there was anything
In the world to be frightened of
Didn't know there was anything
In the world to be frightened of