Emotion & Feeling

Scared of the Dark Water

Fear named and held safely, friendship as solution

Lyrics

The dark water scared me, I didn't know why, but Coral held my claw and said 'It's alright'. With a friend beside me I can face the deep — fear can't live in places where our friends all sleep.

What this song is for

Fear named and held safely, friendship as solution Every Shrempies song is written around a specific developmental moment rather than a hook — this one sits in the emotion & feeling part of the catalogue, which means it is built to be repeated, predicted, and sung along to long before your child can say all the words back.

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