Haunted House - 2020

She’s in a haunted house

Middle of autumn out (side)

Got what she wanted but haunted by being unwanted now

She’s in a haunted house

Middle of autumn out (side)

Got what she wanted but haunted by being unwanted now

Welcome to spooky season, thirty seven degrees

Welcome to broody reason, to the seventh degree

The organs are playing, the orphans arraying the keys

Endorphins are fading, decaying with mental disease

(And the) leaves they are falling off trees and the trees they are falling down

Horses and carriages, shoulda been marriages, ghosts of this town

(Who)

Women named Mary

(Boo)

Bloody and scary

(Ha)

Laying in baths full of cherries and squeezing out juice

Looking like Baby Goth, something staining her teeth

Halloween spirit with pumpkins instead of a wreath

The fog is like witch’s broth

And it’s making it tricky to see

The vibe is wicked, sick, and

Wroth

Wonder what’s buried beneath

Walk up to the door

Axe on the floor

Greeted by bats

Old Victorian decor

Ask for

The lady with cats

Kitchen a liquor store

Pours

Jack in a Venetian glass

Cellar a candy store

More

Wine bottles than there are rats

She’s in a haunted house

Middle of autumn out (side)

Got what she wanted but haunted by being unwanted now

She’s in a haunted house

Middle of autumn out (side)

Got what she wanted but haunted by being unwanted now

Out in the dark of night, no living people for miles

Only the ghosts of the witches who burned at the trials

Only the glow of the potions in beakers and vials

Nothing but zombies and coulda been mommies who live in denial

Peeping the parlor, silver amor in my periphery

Saw where her former partner became a martyr in the distillery

Took a step inside

Eyes

Darting and looking, saw those of an owl too foul to prowl around like he’s wise

Imagery, imagery, images in pictures living in infamy

Infinite weavings of symmetry

Misery in the vicinity

She isn’t even old, only born in '95

Heart is so freezing cold if it broke again she wouldn’t be alive

Feeling mysterious, eerie, and drained of my energy

I took a peek at a dreary near me book of elegies

Developed a theory she wasn’t weary to make enemies

Heard a creak as I took a peek at all of her memories

She’s in a haunted house

Middle of autumn out (side)

Got what she wanted but haunted by being unwanted now

She’s in a haunted house

Middle of autumn out (side)

Got what she wanted but haunted by being unwanted now

She’s in a haunted house

Middle of autumn out (side)

Got what she wanted but haunted by being unwanted now

She’s in a haunted house

Middle of autumn out (side)

Got what she wanted but haunted by being unwanted now

Deprived inside, she’s ruthless to survive

She saw me in the hall and grabbed her forty five

I’d only just arrived to see if it was true

I turned around and heard a sound out of the blue