As a child I would wake at night
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I was scared, but I kept real quiet
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Shadows on the walls moving in on me
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Underneath my sheets I could barely breathe
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Your room was only just across the hall
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All it would have taken was a single call
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Maybe sometimes you've got to trust yourself
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Not to scream out loud and run like hell
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Believe me
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All the days you're unsure
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Believe in me
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I don't want to anymore
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In the dark
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Picture me in your mind
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And i'll lay with you
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You don't have to be scared at night
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As a young man you were shooting rats
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By accident you hit the farmyard cat
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He ran for the fields and
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Came back the next day
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You had blown out his eye
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And you could see his brain
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Your dad said "Boy, there are some things in life.
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You don't want to do but you know is right.
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So take him out back and finish him off."
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You got your gun off the shelf
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It only took one shot
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Believe me
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All the days you're unsure
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Believe in me
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I don't want to anymore
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In the dark
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Picture me in your mind
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And i'll lay with you
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So you don't have to be scared at night
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I flew to Winnipeg on your final day
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They said that you waited until I came
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We sang your favourite hymns
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And we held your hand
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You took your final breath and that was that
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But I'd never seen a person die before
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I tried so hard not to cry, you know
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Maybe sometimes we've got to trust ourselves
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That when you die you go someplace else
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Believe me
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All the days you're unsure
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Believe in me
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I don't want to anymore
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In the dark
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Picture me in your mind
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And i'll lay with you
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So you don't have to be scared at night
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You don't have to be scared at night
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You don't have to be scared at night
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Scared at Night
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| Kathleen Edwards |
