[m/l van
I: Arrivals]
October's a rare for boys When is simple, pure and sweet And the foolish can overlook The outside the door
Come hear a of Halloween And one October not past Jim Nightshade and Halloway Would never be quite so anymore
Fury, the of lightning rods, foretells the coming storm The light's on in the library, beneath the sky Charles Halloway sits deep inside, by his books A serious, lonely and sad old man whose has passed him by
And Jim and Will To ride the Could set souls afire Could send straight to Hell
II: Torments]
Far away, but much too close for Carnival's is playing Halloway sits in the darkened Thinking dark Son at home he doesn't know Fifty-four years seems so old the carnival's ad in the fire Flames grow
Long after midnight, awake Journeys await them, chances to Run the streets to the carnival grounds to ride the merry-go-round
Three AM is midnight for the is a man so close to death The of temptation is at hand are damned
What's the of a life of virtue? you don't know certainly can hurt you Every step he he second-guessed of regret
Ride's out of order, no around a whisper, hardly a sound Thinking that alone, but they're not hands encircle, now they are caught
[Part III: The
Late that the boys returned Watched the spin 'round Turning old man into darkness to town
Carousel turns and Years can and time can burn Dark's accomplice, age Now becomes a boy
Jim and Will in To whirling world of sin spins the carousel Cooger ages, dies and to hell
Mister knows at once That the boys have too much As call for the police He and the wait For plan to be unleashed
Boys with the law Try to tell them what saw The witch throws her voice and the old, man Seems to come to life
The ruse has worked, no one the Tales of the boys have seen The witch locks they fear her most; She wishes them a "short sad for both!"
IV: Pursuits]
Late that night the witch to the sky above the town Searching for the boys who know the secret of the A parade of circus freaks, and led by Mister Dark, Scours every street for the boys to drag down to hell
The boys seen too much And now their death be their silence The freaks caskets fashioned for the little boys who hid And Mister Dark the procession, seeing the librarian, He asks him who the boys are; fills with rage as the old man
[Part V: The Autumn
Late that night the town's old library by arcane and evil books Scouring for any hint of knowledge. Charles, Jim and
A father's son who know his dad he wishes that he had As he that this old lonely man Could be they the only hope they
The Carnival has been here times Its history is found between the Comes by forty years or so Since than two hundred years ago
They upon the sins and fears of men Promise you just you want and then When through they'll steal your very soul Entomb you in sideshow
And as the bell rings They the opening door The hide for their lives As Mister arrives
[Part VI:
Tearing at his To a second chance To the wrongs To live
No No more as a Man to old to his son
He turns the down Not to exchange his soul For he wants the most
Dark Crushes hand And the witch to give the man A taste of death
(old man) Hear breathing (old man) your hurt (old man) See you're (old man) your heart
[Part Confrontations]
(Halloway) ten closer to death (Somehow) finding the courage to (Laughter) in the witch's face (Laughter) burning her soul (Standing), knowing he's her back (Smiling), the time is now (Striding) purposefully the street (Knowing) that he can them somehow (Mister Dark) the boys into the streets (Will to be) made into a toy for (Nightshade) to be his for life (After the) carnival's over (Carnival): one attraction to see (Shoot the witch): gypsy who die (Mister Dark) out over the crowd for a (Volunteer): to give it a try
(Halloway) calls out from in the crowd (Mister Dark) cannot his eyes (Halloway) his good hand up the gun (To steady it) he calls for the of his son
[Part Departures]
Far away, trapped in the maze The whole calls his name And Will awakes the The dust witch placed his head
father and son as one As Mister Dark gives the bullet and carves into a crescent moon
Mister Dark at the bullet He doesn't yet under The meaning of what has done So he the game proceed
But the moon he carved isn't a at all It's his the bullet carries And totem finds it's way To the heart
The gun and the Witch this and now is dead!
Chaos spreads, and and Will Run to the to rescue Jim Charles in by reflections of a million ancient men Staring back and him older A lifetime of regrets A man who knew his son A man whose deeds never done
Halloway from The of shattered mirrors He up his son and runs with him Across the carnival
still upon the carousel Charles and Will him down Another boy appears Mister Dark's And the four of us must chase
Halloway looks at the strange boy He sees him for he is Dark made younger again by the Power of the
picks the boy up Holds him close and his hatred And with grave Lets his fill with love for his and his son And returns the boy's hate with love and it through Dark's young And he and dies
As the carnival tents The three of them laughing to town Two and one middle-aged man No quite so old as he thought
Far but much too close for comfort Far away but much too close for