When you were little you were terrified
Of the basement in the house
You were scared of all the ghosts and monsters
Waiting to get out

You got big but you're still afraid
Though it's mostly just 'cause
Of the asbestos
On the rusty pipes
And it feels like

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Time goes by
And you don't drop your fears
You just switch the reasons
And time goes by
And you don't drop your fears
You just switch the reasons

And shut the door

One day we'll both be dead
Like the cat that our parents had
I wonder if he got eaten
By a coyote
It probably doesn't matter
We'll probably both be lonely

And missing him

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And I'm still afraid of the basement

So I put my exercise bike down there
Because I run faster when I'm scared
And It's working, I'm getting slim
But the monsters all want to be my friends
And I don't want to be friends with them
Because then I'd have to start going to a gym

Then I'd have to start going to a gym
Then I'd have to start paying for a gym