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On the Doorstep

by Pauline Andrès

on MeLODies (2021), All Them Ghosts (2021)

At night, at night my house becomes a monster
My attic is a den where lives a mighty killer
Who's got the face of many men
At night my attic becomes a den

My garden becomes a haunted maze
With smells of evil stenches in a poison haze
A gust brings the moans and desperate whispers
Of the past victims of the monster

I stare at the dark matter - Hoping for the light (2x)
Hopelessly I flee the unknown things of the night

At night, at night my bed is my conscience's bed
I wait like Lazarus for the light of day
A noise in the attic makes my blood cold
I cannot blink and my breath I must hold

Because I know that the night is the danger
On my doorstep is a ghost, a rapist and a killer
Maybe with the right name put on the right fear
The rapist I can kill and his ghost will disappear

It seems I'm awake but I'm afraid to see
Prisoner of terrible things that linger with me

Why does heaven turn to hell when it's dark
All the lights are out but evil does not rest
Those visions of nightmare I cannot forget
Are a taste of the thing on my doorstep

Those visions of nightmare I cannot forget
Are a taste of the thing on my doorstep

I'm hoping for the light