Here's my submission for #HalloweenMusicJam 2026 - "I Shall Return For Halloween"
I'm hoping to put the collab album together tomorrow evening! Right now it's looking like we'll have 5 tracks on there, which is exciting! A nice lil halloween EP
It has been many years since I left this place
I remember the tears and the cries
As I was ferried off on the Boatman's creaking cart
Still I remain in some small part in all your lives.
It has been many years since I wore my mask
And prowled through the town from door to door
All those sweetmeats and frights
On that creepiest night
Now I'm thinking I just might drop by once more...
Oh yes, I shall return for Halloween!
I'll be back in your town for just one night
In that strange moonglow through the trees
In every rattle of their leaves
Oh, I shall return for Halloween,
If only as a spectre in your mind.
It has been far too long since I felt the chill
Of a creak or bump or scurry down the hall
It's funny, the ghosts that we feared once
Are just like those that we become
And the chill the same that's bound to claim us all...
Now they're pouring candy into bowls
And I feel that itching in my bones
I need to lurch and dance and twist and play
Oh, they're hanging spiders from the trees
And setting pumpkins 'neath the eaves
And I am rising up from my cold grave!
Oh yes, I shall return for Halloween.
I'll be lurking at the corner of your eye
In that strange moonglow through the trees
In every rattle of their leaves
Oh, I shall return for Halloween!
If only as a spectre in your mind.
Oh, and when those Autumn leaves start turning
And the evening fires brightly burning
All we spirits start to yearning
And I simply can't resist returning
For a friendly little haunt
Among all those I've not forgot
All the foes and friends of my earthly little life
And even though they tend to say
I've passed on to some better place
If you thought you'd not see me again,
Well, you're in for a surprise!
Because I shall return for Halloween... (chorus)
@nash I love this!!