Middle of the Night

It came out of the darkness In the middle of the night A black and winding serpent With flashing crimson eyes The camera lights the innocent Their faces frozen in time With fearful expectation of Where next the beast will strike It rumbled through the neighbourhood With fiercely twinkling eyes And waited at the doorway For his tail to arrive Its head came through the window Its body through the door And it pulled itself together As it ran across the floor And before our eyes, the fireflies Were dancing round his head We watched in screaming silence As he was stolen from his bed Suddenly, it's over And not a word was said Now no-one knows if he's alive or if he's dead