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On candy stripe legs the spider man comes |
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Softly through the shadow of the evening sun |
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Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead |
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Looking for the victim shivering in bed |
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Searching out fear in the gathering gloom |
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And suddenly a movement in the corner of the room |
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And there is nothing I can do, when I realize with fright |
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That the spider man is having me for dinner tonight |
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Quietly he laughs and shaking his head |
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Creeps closer now, closer to the foot of the bed |
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And softer than shadow and quicker than flies |
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His arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes |
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"Be still, be calm, be quiet now my precious boy |
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Don't struggle like that or I will only love you more |
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For it's much too late to get away or turn on the light |
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The spider man is having you for dinner tonight" |
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And I feel like I'm being eaten |
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By a thousand million shivering furry holes |
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And I know that in the morning |
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I will wake up in the shivering cold |
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And the spider man is always hungry |
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Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly |
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I have something |