The Protomen - Shudders lyrics

I wasn't the smartest boy in the household by a longshot I knew of wandering the graveyard that it's best met with an onslaught Of something called shudders It's when your body trembles and your heart skips, sputters And you mutter counter-evils, and you grip on to your charms I've never comprehended the alarm Caused by things described variously as scary Terrifying, ghastly. Could I follow this? Barely Certainly never felt it. Never shuddered, and my pops Sent me packing, called me bad luck kid, head full of rocks I talked so loudly of my ignorance as I roamed Complained I couldn't get frightened, and might have bemoaned That I'd been disowned. A friendly hangman beckoned But I partied with his danglers, didn't shudder for a second Then I heard about a castle in the distance that was haunted Nobody lasted there an evening. Could it be just what I wanted? Didn't know Didn't know There was anything In the world To be frightened of I wasn't the first one to show up claiming bravery The rumored ends of my predecessors were unsavory They'd become the catering at a feast of ghouls and spirits! Neither the king nor his people would set foot near it This seemed good; fear, it glistened in their eyes as they spoke I figured I could pick the habit up and go (maybe all the way back home, having understood shuddering) Did the townspeople deem me a simpleton? Utterly What a first night it was, too! The hellbeasts Were like from a nightmare. I think? I don't get bad dreams I tried to nap but the furniture floated and spun We did some doughnuts in the stable yard! Fun The second night's vigilance wasn't any more fruitful: Zombies down the chimney till the whole rec room's full All-bone nine-pin, glad I brought my lathe Though I lost some money gambling, my denseness was unscathed Third and final evening, my reanimated corpse Cuddle-buddy tried to strangle me. Reliable sources Report that I chucked him back in his coffin and sighed Despaired of finding shudders locally and set to stride Didn't I want my reward? The hand of the castle's princess? A path to power and riches, and this is its ingress? And this is my dimness, I guess, but I choose to keep questing: Find the next hypothesis of scariness and keep testing But here's that princess requesting that I reconsider And as I spy her she reminds me of my babysitter A village girl I had a crush on as a lad Who never even noticed that I couldn't make eye contact This one's staring me down She's used to getting her way, been wearing a crown Is she scaring me now, with her “think about it, please?” I got this odd involuntary shaking in my knees