In my obsession with diving into all things Season of the Witch, I spotted the time-stained book "All Hallows' Eve" in my parents' bookcase and pulled it out. My parents immediately said that I specifically would really enjoy that and Charles Williams, in general, since he apparently has a tendency to write from the thrilling depths of a supernatural space-time.
I'm not a big reader, so admittedly I only read maybe the first couple of chapters, BUT what I did read spoke to me enough to base this song off of the atmosphere and jist of what [I perceived] was going on.
Someday, I'll finish the novel; til then I like to think I get a lengthy pass for writing a bloody ode, SIR.
lyrics
We take turns parading wildly
'round the city park.
Feelings on our faces
lit by cigarettes
after dark
Are we dead, or are we living
For tonight?
If we’re dead, then should I
quiver left and right?
Useless as the use for
crying in the endless rain
We turn and run back down
The alley just to find it
chained
This new dread-
is it for others
or for ourselves?
In my head or in the open,
it’s bitter hell.
There’s something there-
it stands and stares;
There’s something there!
I know what I saw.
“There’s nothing there-“
you stand and glare;
“there’s nothing there!”
I know what I saw;
in a word, it was despair.
Calling out your name
is just like breathing to me, now.
The others come and go;
they must be linked to light,
somehow.
Do I have time to whisper
“sorry”, before you go?
Are you gone,
or are you waiting
for the blow?
There’s something there-
it stands and stares;
There’s something there!
I know what I saw.
“There’s something there…”
you freeze and stare
“There’s something there!”
I know what you saw.
You don’t have to tell me
I knew it was coming
The only question was when
I still have to wonder
Where I went under
And how I’m just haunting you
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