Halloween - Washington

Oh, Captain of my industry

Oh, cigarettes & company

I’m never where I want to be

The dirty, dirty ground

Oh, Halloween!

The blood you drew

You carved a space to climb into

& like a lantern, like a pyre

I burn, I burn with holy fire

I talk when I don’t have to

& I hope it doesn’t matter

'cause we know what we know

I don’t know how you do it, but I change

& you see to it that we ain’t got no show

& all I could see in the ink of the dark

Was your cigarette, breathing

Like a beating heart

I fold mine in, like origami

It might look pretty

But you do not know me

I talk when I don’t have to

& I hope it doesn’t matter

'cause we know what we know

I don’t know how you do it, but I change

& you see to it that we ain’t got no show

Oh, Halloween

Oh, jealous star

Are you who you say you are?

I thought you would have found me out by now

Oh, Halloween

The blood you drew

You carved a space to climb into

I don’t know what I should have seen

Not since Halloween