Scared At Night - Kathleen Edwards

As a child I would wake at night

I was scared, but I kept real quiet

Shadows on the walls moving in on me

Underneath my sheets I could barely breathe

Your room was only just across the hall

All it would have taken was a single call

Maybe sometimes you’ve got to trust yourself

Not to scream out loud and run like hell

Believe me All the days you’re unsure

Believe in me

I don’t want to anymore

In the dark

Picture me in your mind

And i’ll lay with you

You don’t have to be scared at night

As a young man you were shooting rats

By accident you hit the farmyard cat

He ran for the fields and

Came back the next day

You had blown out his eye

And you could see his brain

Your dad said «Boy, there are some things in life.

You don’t want to do but you know is right.

So take him out back and finish him off.»

You got your gun off the shelf

It only took one shot

Believe me All the days you’re unsure

Believe in me

I don’t want to anymore

In the dark

Picture me in your mind

And i’ll lay with you

So you don’t have to be scared at night

I flew to Winnipeg on your final day

They said that you waited until I came

We sang your favourite hymns

And we held your hand

You took your final breath and that was that

But I’d never seen a person die before

I tried so hard not to cry, you know

Maybe sometimes we’ve got to trust ourselves

That when you die you go someplace else

Believe me All the days you’re unsure

Believe in me

I don’t want to anymore

In the dark

Picture me in your mind

And i’ll lay with you

So you don’t have to be scared at night

You don’t have to be scared at night

You don’t have to be scared at night