Halloween

I'm sailin' away to a place I'm afraid of The dawn isn't here, the sun hasn't rose I'm drinkin' my days with the coastal longshoreman They got money to make and children back home And the last that I heard you were down in New Orleans Workin' your days at the print I drink 'til I drown, and I smoke 'til I'm burnin' Your hands are all over my scent I worry for you, you worry for me And it's fine if we know we won't change Collect every dream in these old empty pockets And hope that I'll need them someday But the wreckage of you I no longer reside in The bridges have long since been burnt The ash of the home that I started the fire in It starts to return to the earth I'm leavin' this town, and I'm changin' my address I know that you'll come if you want It's not Halloween, but the ghost you dressed up as Sure knows how to haunt, yes, it knows how to haunt It's an ode to the hole that I found myself stuck in A song for the grave that I dug There's a murder of crows in the lowlight off Boston And I see your face in each one I'm losin' myself in the tiniest objects I'm seein' my life on a screen I'm hearin' your voice in a strange foreign language If only I learned how to speak But the wreckage of you I no longer reside in The bridges have long since been burnt And the ash of the home that I started the fire in It starts to return to the earth I'm leavin' this town, and I'm changin' my address I know that you'll come if you want It's not Halloween, but the ghost you dressed up as Sure knows how to haunt, yeah, you know how to haunt Mmm (ah-ooh, ooh), you know to haunt Know how to haunt, mmm (ah-ooh, ooh) I know that you fear that I'm wicked and weary I know that you're fearin' the end But I only tell the truth when I'm sure that I'm lyin' So, I'm settin' sail once again