[Verse 1]
In the shadows
In the bushes
In the space between the leafs
A spider in a thicket
Crawled up on my knee

[Verse 2]
I whipped my gloves on
Whipped my hat on
And I ran from the trees
But that little black spider
Came crawling after me

[Verse 3]
From the shadows
In the bushes
In the space between the leafs
A little black spider
Came a crawling home with me

[Verse 4]
It crawled across my window
As I lay me down to sleep
In the morning on my pillow
It waited patiently
[Verse 5]
And then came the ants
The frogs and the snakes
Slithering and slimy
Through my clean washed sheets

[Verse 6]
Rustling from the bushes
Creeping from the moves
Every awful creature
Came a crawling over me

[Verse 7]
I crushed them and killed them
But they came all the more
So I ran in my nightshirt
Out onto the lawn

[Verse 8]
But I tripped on a tree root
And they swarmed from the weeds
A million little teeth
Tore me to pieces

[Verse 9]
In the shadows of the thicket
Rain poured through the leafs
And I was scattered in the mud
Beneath the dripping trees
[Verse 10]
But from here
And from there
From every direction
Little voices sang
Under twigs and mosses

[Verse 11]
And I swarmed
And I gathered
Under logs and leaves
I crawled and I slithered
Under rotting trees

[Verse 12]
In the tangle of the bushes
Underneath the wet leaves
I am many and nothing
And I crawl up on your knee

[Verse 13]
In the tangle of the bushes
Underneath the wet leafs
Lay many and nothing
And I crawl up on your knee