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{{quote|''"[[Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep|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"''|'''[[Tom Waits]]''', "Lullaby"}}
A [[Nursery Rhyme]] used to convey an underlying sadness and/or creepiness, sometimes made into a theme tune that sounds like a music box that's slightly off key. It's mainly used to indicate someone with a [[Squick
Occasionally the writers want to be more poetic with it, and a character will sing the lyrics to some bedtime song. This is sometimes [[Hand Wave|handwaved]] as being learned from a nanny or grandmother, since they tend to be rhymes no one has used in the last century.
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