What’s Under The Stairs?
Have you seen, what’s under the stairs?
Have you seen? There’s something alive there,
I’ve heard it breathing, I think It’s been watching me,
I sense it seething, I think it’s getting hungry,When I’m in bed I’m too scared to breathe,
It’s under the bed I think that It’s after me,
I told my daddy, he says it’s not really there,
I threw a paddy, cause I know what’s under the stairs,Now I must be good and stay fast asleep,
But it wears a hood and round my bed it creeps,
I feel it’s eyes it wants to take my soul,
Pull up the sheets, stay safe ’til the cock crows,Mother showed me what was under the stairs,
Just some boxes and a dusty old deck chair,
She doesn’t realise it’s always on the move,
It’s in the ottoman and teddy’s seen it too,I can feel it’s teeth against the back of my head,
I turn around and it’s with me in my bed,
It’s eyes are fire it wants to take me away,
Run and hide until the break of day,Now I must be good and stay fast asleep,
But it wears a hood and round my bed it creeps,
I feel it’s eyes it wants to take my soul,
Pull up the sheets, stay safe ’til the cock crows.
Williams, 1996. This song was first released on the CD An Introduction To The Psychotic Reaction (2002). A completely new version appeared on Rumble (2004).