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This Halloween
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This Halloween
A breeze will blow across the houses covered in the fallen leaves
The trees create a labyrinth of their shadows on the empty street
And you and me will walk together underneath a golden moon
And soon the emptiness of winter steps into our quiet room
But now we'll light the jack o' lantern and leave him for our fallen friends
And then we'll raise a glass and toast the fact that nothing really ends
Our days an endless line of lovers lost forever in the maze
The haze the hay and cider go and find her sleeping in her grave
And say hey won't you come out darling one more night and we can play
And stay til all the embers of the summer start to fade away
It's ours this night where endings end and all the lonely spirits rise
Our lives are tangled up together like two hornets in a hive
Inside until the autumn grows so cold that they cannot survive
And though they hold each other tightly one of them will have to go
One stays and watches sadly while the other flies away
He waits and hopes that maybe she'll return to him someday
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Come With Me
01:10
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I am The Queen of Halloween
come with me and I will show you
all you never would have seen
If you won't let the summer leave
or love a soul who has to go
you know I'll return to you one evening
When all the leaves fall from the trees
I will come back on the breeze
My love transcends the changing seasons
And like a branch supports a vine
You have spun your life to mine
I'm here to hold you one more time
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Ten
02:31
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Ten for the end of the summer
Gather a quilt to pull over
Under the covers
we'll lace our fingers together
And whisper words about autumn
And how the winter forgot him
It slid right into November
And blew on through to December
Without a nod to the apple
To the fire that crackles
In the head of a pumpkin
With the heart of a season
Where the dead can go easy
Or find a soul to receive them
And come on back for an evening
To a life as they left it
With a whole new perspective
With one foot in the exit
And the other among us
To haunt and to love us
And to leave us to wonder
Are they over or under
Or still here in the echoes
Of a life that they let go
That we still believe in
But less every season
Until the only trace left
After the strangeness of death fades
Are the new things that grow
From the ground
Ten for the end of a lover
Gather some dirt to throw over
Under the cover
One garden grows from another
She sends her seeds to the surface
With an annual purpose
To create a new being
To be carved into meaning
With a half-headed smile
A mind stringy and wild
Who can see through the fire
To the other dimension
And he'll welcome the winter
From his seat at the center
Of the dead and the living
And at the feast of Thanksgiving
He'll give it all to the autumn
From the summer that brought him
And he laughs at the weary
And implores them all dearly
Pay attention more clearly
To the green things that grow
From the ground
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I'm driving uber on halloween
The witches and goblins are green
But I won't get scared, you can tell by the hair
It's a mask it's kind of easy to see
But still I try to keep aware
There's something strange in the air
It's like a hint or a thought, beyond what's sold and what's bought
Tonight I'll take a little more care
But still I gotta do my job
I already took too much off
But I caught up on my sleep so for the next couple weeks
I'm gonna drive until my bills are paid up
And now I'm picking up another ride
Hey miss yeah just get in on that side
You look familiar to me, you wouldn't happen to be--
Oh wait no I remember now nevermind
And it's funny what'll go through your brain
These memories circle the drain
There is a girl that I loved that you reminded me of
But it's been so long now.. what was your name?
Ok, guess that came off kind of weird
Hello? maybe you just didn't hear
But I look back in the mirror and find there's nobody there
Were you at all or did you just disappear?
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Song of the Skeleton
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This is the song of the skeleton
Who walks through the world again
Dressed up in tattered skin
And crumbling sediment
He climbs up the window trim
The house where he used to live
He finds his old room again
Does it remember him?
And it's a sad song
He has been gone so long
The world has moved on
Without him
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Halloween Day
02:48
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Down the street around the next corner
There we'll meet on halloween day
Shadows creep, the moon's at a quarter
And soon all things asleep will awake
And I'll see you again
Oh darling how you been?
The sun hangs low it sets in the orange sky
Big and slow it sinks out of view
Shadows grow they wax in the lamplight
Soft and low you start to come through
And I'll see you again
Oh baby where you been?
The moon won't shine the same
Since I don't say your name
The stars don't seem so bright
Without you by my side
The world moves on so fast
But darling welcome back
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7. |
The Queen of Halloween
04:13
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The Queen of Halloween takes her last ride
She slips among the trees in the dark night
And everything she sees for the last time
Calls to her-- to come again when she can
And every summer knows that it must go
It crackles in the heat of the orange glow
The jack o' lantern speaks to the sad soul
Come again-- and I will see you next time
She's flying through the fog on her dark wings
She's laying out a trail for the dead things
On every halloween you can hear her say
Follow me-- and I will lead you back here
The Queen of Halloween takes her last ride
She slips among the trees in the dark night
And everything she sees for the last time
Calls to her-- to come again when she can
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8. |
I Do Love Halloween
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I got a drum kit made of pumpkins
And my new girlfriend is a witch
I dressed my dog up like a candy corn
Because that is my favorite dish
And I'm been peeling grapes for eyeballs
I've got spaghetti on the brain
And I've been bobbing all these apples
Just like a goldfish in the rain, why oh let me tell you
I do
You know I do love halloween
I have been reading Sleepy Hallow
And I've been watching Charlie Brown
And I'm gonna take my god son
Out trick or treating on the town
And if this is my final message
If it's the last you'll hear from me
I want you all to please remember
How much I do love halloween
Come on, it's the changing of the seasons!
My queen, she is the queen of halloween!
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