You can lock the doorYou can kill the lightI'm the reason that the closet breathe at nightBoogeymanI don't knock, I'm already hereI'm the cold spot in the room, I'm the thing you call a fearBoogeymanYou outgrew me, that's the lie you tell yourselfBut I'm the hand that moves the picture on the shelfUnder the bed where the brave don't lookI'm the chapter that they tore out of the bookYou grew up, you stopped believingThat's exactly when the boogeyman start breathingI live in the corner that the nightlight cannot reachIn the creak upon the stairs, in the thing you cannot teachBoogeymanI don't knock, I'm already hereI'm the cold spot in the room, I'm the thing you call a fearBoogeymanI'm the shape your jacket makes when it's hanging on the chairI'm the breath upon your neck when there's nobody thereYou can sleep with all the lights on, I don't mind the glowI'm patient as the winter and I'm older than the snowCall your god, call the law, call whoever that you pleaseThe boogeyman was here before the first of them all theseBoogeymanI don't knock, I'm already hereI'm the cold spot in the room, I'm the thing you call a fearBoogeymanI was the dread you felt before you knew a thing to dreadI was the reason that you ran the last few steps to bedEvery culture got a name for me, every language got the wordI'm the oldest kind of story, I'm the first one ever heardYou think the monster's metaphor, you think you're far too wiseBut wisdom's just the blanket that you pull up to your eyesI am not a story, I'm the thing the story hidI am every reason that you slept beneath the lidClose your eyes, count to ten, do it if you dareWhen you open them again I'll be standing right thereSo leave the hallway light on, leave the bedroom door ajarIt only lets me see you better, sees how scared you areI don't need you to believe me, that was never how it workedI just need the dark to deepen and the corner where I lurkSleep now, sleep now, let the heavy eyelids fallThe boogeyman is patient, and the boogeyman runs allBoogeymanI don't knock, I'm already hereI'm the cold spot in the room, I'm the thing you call a fearBoogeyman
