As a child I would wake at night   I was scared but I kept real quiet   Shadows on the walls moving in on me   And underneath my sheets I could barely breathe      And your room was only just across the hall   All it would have taken was a single call   Maybe sometimes we've got to trust ourselves   Not to scream out loud, and run like hell      Believe me, all our days here are unsure   Believe in me, I don't want to anymore   And 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'd blown out his eye and you could see his brain      That's it boy, there is some things in life   You don't wanna do, but you know is right   So take him out back and finish him off   Got your gun off the shelf, it only took one shot      Believe me, all our days here are unsure   Believe in me, I don't want to anymore   And in the dark, picture me in your mind   And I'll lay with you, so you don't have to be scared at night      And I flew away and I paid on your final day   They said that you waited 'til I came   We sang your favorite 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 and all   'Cause maybe sometimes we've got to trust ourselves   That when you die you go some place else      Believe me, all our days here are unsure   Believe in me, I don't want to anymore   And in the dark, picture me in your mind   And I'll lay with you, 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