Jack's Lament
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Geoff Castellucci
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(melancholy music)
♪ There are few who'd deny
at what I do I am the best ♪
♪ For my talents are
renowned far and wide ♪
♪ When it comes to surprises
in the moonlit night ♪
♪ I excel without ever even trying ♪
♪ With the slightest little
effort of my ghostlike charms ♪
♪ I have seen grown
men give out a shriek ♪
♪ With the wave of my hand
and a well-placed moan ♪
♪ I have swept the very
bravest off their feet ♪
♪ Yet year after year
it's the same routine ♪
♪ And I grow so weary of
the sound of screams ♪
♪ And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King ♪
♪ Have grown so tired ♪
♪ Ooh ooh ♪
♪ Of the same old thing ♪
♪ Same old thing ♪
♪ Oh, somewhere deep
inside of these bones ♪
♪ An emptiness began to grow ♪
♪ There's something out
there far from my home ♪
♪ A longing that I've never known ♪
♪ I'm the master of fright
and a demon of light ♪
♪ And I'll scare you
right out of your pants ♪
♪ Ah ♪
♪ To a guy in Kentucky
I'm Mister Unlucky ♪
♪ And I'm known throughout
England and France ♪
- Bonjour.
♪ And since I am dead I
can take off my head ♪
♪ To recite Shakespearean quotations ♪
♪ No animal nor man
can scream like I can ♪
♪ With the fury of my recitations ♪
♪ But who here would ever understand ♪
♪ That the Pumpkin King
with the skeleton grin ♪
♪ Would tire of his crown ♪
♪ If they only understood ♪
♪ He'd give it all up if he only could ♪
♪ Oh, there's an empty place in my bones ♪
♪ That calls out for something unknown ♪
♪ The fame and praise
come year after year ♪
♪ Does nothing for these empty tears ♪
(melancholy music)
Hey, all. Geoff here, and happy Halloween.
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S, Barb Wells, AM Person,
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Thomas and Melanie Thomas.
Also M Lagnestal and Dorothy
Bruun and Debs Badger.
Thanks again for watching,
and have a safe Halloween.
I'll see you in the next one.
(melancholy music)
