Never Afraid

CHORUS:

CHARLYNE: I was never afraid (x4)

VERSE 1:

LARS:

On a big blue couch in the corner of the kitchen

We went on many missions and amazing expeditions

Flying through the pages on that Magic School Bus

Shel Silverstein rode shotgun, but it was up to us

To peel apart the layers and search for the dragons

The cats wearing hats, Curious George and Peter Rabbit

The newest freshest books?  Mom always brought 'em home

Then in high school it was Steinbeck, Keats and Edgar Allan Poe

WATSKY:

Don't let the memories fade, we've got to make 'em last

I was still a baby when Grandma Katy passed

And passed on her hardcover novels

With the Sutherland nameplates, our family gospel

'Cause I'm not sure if the lord is above

But I know your mother is alive in the stories you love

That you read to us when we were little, until we were grown

And I'm gonna pass 'em on when I've got some kids of my own

(Kids of my own)

CHORUS:

CHARLYNE: I was never afraid

LARS: (of the monsters in the closet, it would be alright)

CHARLYNE: I was never afraid

LARS: (reading Goosebumps up in Tahoe on those summer nights)

CHARLYNE: I was never afraid

WATSKY: (of a moaning ghost, or of a pile of bones)

CHARLYNE: I was never afraid

WATSKY: (even when the floorboards groaned)

LARS:

Did Stuart Little give up? (No!) He always persevered

You came on stage at Warped Tour, remember how they cheered?

And unlike Jackie Paper I'll be back to Honalee

To play you my new demos, cause you're so honest with me

At home you won't put up with that rapper ego crap

Cause to you I'm still Andrew, and I'll always treasure that

I'd choose my own adventure, it's taken me so far

Ghostriding giant peaches, catching seagulls with these bars

WATSKY:

Keep all your nickels and dimes, feed me your riddles and rhymes

Read me your Wrinkle in Time, build me a bridge out to Terabithia, meet me at nine

On the mysterious island, right at the scene of the crime

Come with Captain Nemo, but I'm emo, don't leave me behind

Starin' at the sun out on the quay 'till we're legally blind

Treasony, Mutiny on the Bounty, just carry me there

Out by Where the Red Fern Grows and then bury me there

(Bury me there)

CHORUS:

CHARLYNE: I was never afraid

LARS: (of the Twits or the Grinch or even Captain Hook)

CHARLYNE: I was never afraid

LARS: (of Boggis, Bunce or Bean, no I was never shook)

CHARLYNE: I was never afraid

WATSKY: (of the Grendel or of Ichabod Crane)

CHARLYNE: I was never afraid

WATSKY: (even when the Tripods came)

CHARLYNE:

Now suddenly

For the first time

I'm ready to be lost

VERSE 3:

LARS:

And If I ever have kids, I'll read them Strega Nona

Lyle Lyle Crocodile, Matilda, and Ramona

WATSKY:

I'll never give 'em the back of my hand

Give 'em the Giver, the River, Hatchet, and Raggedy Ann

LARS:

And even as a rap fiend, mama

You always kept my hats clean, mama

WATSKY:

Even though we have seen trauma

You always had the vaccine, mama

CHORUS:

CHARLYNE: I was never afraid

LARS: (of gettin' lost in Narnia because we had a map)

CHARLYNE: I was never afraid

LARS: (in those Oakland Hills sitting on my mama's lap)

CHARLYNE: I was never afraid

WATSKY: (in Jumanji, or of Anansi)

CHARLYNE: I was never afraid

WATSKY: (there's no Orc or Morlock that haunts me)

CHARLYNE: I was never afraid (x4)