The Dreadful Hours

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Mother will you take me down? 
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I have become so afraid 
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Mother please, please take me down 
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Sorry, your boy is not brave 
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Child just hold on  Night will soon be gone 
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Sleep if you can  But watch your father's hand 

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We do not want you     No-body loves you 
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Father of the dark     Tonight will greet you 
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God in heaven,    can you hear me 
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Help me Oh Lord    They're coming for me 
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Mother warned me    Father scorned me 
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Oh my God No     Now I hear him 

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I claim your life on this night 
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Within sight of your own God 
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The silence, the waiting then the pain 
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Oh child, sleep will be here soon 
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Your life has only ever been shame 
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And so young boy, my hand brings doom 

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Child, won't you awake       Father has gone 
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Child, please come awake        Please my tiny son