October - Jackson C. Frank

Following a signal I received in France

Watching all the traffic going by Your hair is done in sequins

You wear leather pants

Soldiers at the crossroads wave goodbye

And it’s already over in October

Already Christmas every year

It’s always good to sing when you are sober

It’s always good to wipe away a tear

Sometimes I think we’ll all go up in smoke

Owing that the passage is not clear

There is a man who probably will choke

On the words that sound so violently sincere

And it’s already over in October

Already Christmas every year

It’s always good to sing when you are sober

Always good to wipe away the tears

There was a woman who wore my ring upon her hand

Warning me to judge the way I feel

Right on the surface of everything I’d planned

She cut too deep to ever really heal

And it’s already over in October

Already Christmas every year

And it’s always good to sing when you are sober

It’s always good to wipe away the tears

If I see you, I’ll nod to some passing face of God

Who never really answered me at prayer

The Savior is quite odd, he prefers the prod

His kingdom is made out of thin air

And it’s already over in October

Already Christmas every year

It’s always good to sing when you are sober

It’s always good to wipe away the tears