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

The last that I heard, you were down in New Orleans

Workin' your days at The Print

I drink till I drown, and I smoke till 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

In hope that I'll need them someday

But the wreckage of you, I no longer reside in

And the bridges have long since been burned

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're dressed up as

Sure knows how to haunt, yes, it knows how to haunt

Mmm-hmm-mmm

It's an ode to the hole that I found myself stuck in

And a song for the grave that I dug

There's a murder of crows in the low light 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 burned

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're dressed up as

Sure knows how to haunt, yeah, you know how to haunt

Mmm-hmm-mmm

You know how to haunt

Know how to haunt

Mmm-hmm-mmm

Mmm-hmm-mmm

Mmm-hmm-mmm

I know that you fear that I'm wicked and weary

I know that you fearin' the end

But I only tell the truth when I'm sure that I'm lyin'

So I'm settin' sail once again