Ironic Nursery Tune/Quotes

"I had a little bird Her name was Enza I opened the window And in-flu-enza!"

- children during the 1918 flu pandemic

"If I die before you wake Don't you cry, don't you ache Nothing's ever yours to keep Close your eyes, go to sleep"

- Lullaby, Tom Waits

"Twinkle twinkle little... star... How I wonder what... you... are... Up above the world so... high... Like a diamond in the... sky... When the blazing sun is... gone... When the nothing shines upon... Then you show your little light Twinkle twinkle all the... night Then the trav'ler in the dark Thanks you for your little spark He could not see which way to... go... If you did not... twinkle... so... When the blazing sun is... gone... When the nothing shines upon... Though I know not what you... are... Twinkle, twinkle little... star..."

- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, full version, Dead Space. The cadence has been reproduced as faithfully as it can get without sound.

"My mother has killed me... my father is eating me... my brothers and sisters, sit under the table, picking up my bones! They'll bury them, under the cold marble stones..."

- Hansel and Gretel from Black Lagoon.

"If you would seek the true terror in the night, throw away your library of thrillers and gothic romances and turn back to your childhood. There is no darkness quite so potent as that behind the apparently innocent nursery rhyme."

- Look to the West

"Zagreus sits inside your head Zagreus lives among the dead Zagreus sees you in your bed And eats you when you're sleeping

Zagreus at the end of days Zagreus sets the skies ablaze Zagreus comes when time's a maze And all of history's weeping

Zagreus taking time apart. Zagreus fears the hero heart. Zagreus seeks the final part. The reward that he is reaping.

Zagreus sings when all is lost Zagreus takes all those he's crossed Zagreus wins and all is cost The hero's hearts he's keeping.

Zagreus seeks the hero's ship Zagreus needs the web to rip Zagreus sups time at a drip And life aside, he's sweeping."

- Gallifreyan nursery rhyme, Doctor Who BFA Zagreus

"Born in lust Turn to dust Born in sin Come on in Born in vice Say it twice At least twice"

- Andre Linoge, he also likes 'I'm A Little Teapot'.

"Mary had a little lamb, Little lamb, little lamb, Mary had a little lamb, Whose fleece was white as snow."

- Assassin's Redoubt, Final Transmission, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (The Dream Twister)

"The naughty little woodpecker Knocked holes, crumbling the forest. The angry wood god turned his beak into poison!

The poor little woodpecker His nest was poison And his supper too. He touched his friends and they all died.

The sad little woodpecker His little poison tears twinkle and shine."

- The Lullaby, Deadman Wonderland

"Tick tock goes the clock And what now shall we play? Tick tock goes the clock Now summer’s gone away?

Tick tock goes the clock And what then shall we see? Tick tock until the day That thou shalt marry me

Tick tock goes the clock And all the years they fly Tick tock and all too soon You and I must die

Tick tock goes the clock We laughed at fate and mourned her Tick tock goes the clock Even for

Tick tock goes the clock And all the years they fly Tick tock goes the clock

Tick tock goes the clock He cradled her and he rocked her Tick tock goes the clock Til

Tick tock goes the clock He gave all he could give her Tick tock goes the clock Now prison waits for River"

- The compiled Tick Tock Goes the Clock, Doctor Who: Series 6

"Kathryn: Here's a list of the ways the star-sail can be used as a weapon. Karl: "Star light, star bright, Karl: Last thing you see tonight...""

- Schlock Mercenary, 14 December 2015