Halloween a song by Noah Kahan on
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About Halloween
“Halloween” is the eleventh track on Noah Kahan’s third studio album, Stick Season. The song covers Kahan feeling haunted by the “ghost” of a person he used to know, meaning that he couldn’t get them out of his head. The lyrics see him having a visible struggle with understanding this person, even after they’re not around each other anymore. This is likely because they weren’t letting anybody in and were a supposed “train wreck,” where this person was a complete mess, which was alluded to in the lyrics. .
Halloween Lyrics
[00:08.93] I'm sailin' away to a place I'm afraid of
[00:13.10] The dawn isn't here, the sun hasn't rose
[00:17.88] I'm drinkin' my days with the coastal longshoreman
[00:22.25] They got money to make and children back home
[00:26.52] And the last that I heard you were down in New Orleans
[00:31.40] Workin' your days at the print
[00:35.85] I drink 'til I drown, and I smoke 'til I'm burnin'
[00:40.21] Your hands are all over my scent
[00:44.87] I worry for you, you worry for me
[00:48.91] And it's fine if we know we won't change
[00:53.76] Collect every dream in these old empty pockets
[00:58.18] And hope that I'll need them someday
[01:02.79] But the wreckage of you I no longer reside in
[01:07.47] The bridges have long since been burnt
[01:11.70] The ash of the home that I started the fire in
[01:16.13] It starts to return to the earth
[01:21.01] I'm leavin' this town, and I'm changin' my address
[01:25.31] I know that you'll come if you want
[01:29.98] It's not Halloween, but the ghost you dressed up as
[01:34.30] Sure knows how to haunt, yes, it knows how to haunt
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[01:48.35] It's an ode to the hole that I found myself stuck in
[01:52.45] A song for the grave that I dug
[01:56.85] There's a murder of crows in the lowlight off Boston
[02:01.45] And I see your face in each one
[02:06.08] I'm losin' myself in the tiniest objects
[02:10.43] I'm seein' my life on a screen
[02:15.02] I'm hearin' your voice in a strange foreign language
[02:19.43] If only I learned how to speak
[02:23.88] But the wreckage of you I no longer reside in
[02:28.23] The bridges have long since been burnt
[02:32.80] And the ash of the home that I started the fire in
[02:37.52] It starts to return to the earth
[02:42.14] I'm leavin' this town, and I'm changin' my address
[02:46.28] I know that you'll come if you want
[02:51.17] It's not Halloween, but the ghost you dressed up as
[02:55.25] Sure knows how to haunt, yeah, you know how to haunt
[02:59.99] Mmm (ah-ooh, ooh), you know to haunt
[03:08.13] Know how to haunt, mmm (ah-ooh, ooh)
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[03:35.87] I know that you fear that I'm wicked and weary
[03:40.26] I know that you're fearin' the end
[03:44.65] But I only tell the truth when I'm sure that I'm lyin'
[03:49.03] So, I'm settin' sail once again
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