In the middle of the night,
when the sky looks dark and gray;
ghosts appear in a little room
inside this tiny shack.
Noises can be heard from days in our past.
Toys are moving about the room;
yet children are not around.
You see a dog's tennis ball,
but where is the dog?
How can this be possible?
No one's set foot here in years.

In the middle of the night,
when the sky is dark and gray;
rocking chairs sway back and forth.
Mothers are singing their babies to sleep.
Bottles are lifted in mid-air.
Cribs seem empty, yet mobiles spin round and round.
You wonder if this can be real.
As a child you told ghost stories
and you watched "Ghost Busters."
Wasn't that all make believe?

In the middle of the night,
when the sky seems dark and gray;
You sit in an old beat up chair
and have shivers down your spine.
Doors slam shut.
Drawers open and close,
with clothes flying everywhere.
Gates swing back and forth,
with various families running in and out.

In the middle of the night,
when the sky turns dark and gray;
memories of our past
run quickly through your mind.
Children's faces now look sullen
and you can't imagine why.
Where once these children sang and play;
they now needed to escape.
As Halloween approached them,
they turned the other way.

In the middle of the night,
when the sky became dark and gray;
families lay sprawled out on the floor.
There was nothing but dismay.
How does one picture such a grusome sight?
Can it all just be happening
in your imaginative mind?

To this very day,
no one knows what happened
in the middle of the night,
when the sky was dark and gray.