Halloween Parade Lyrics - Reed Lou

There's a downtown fairy singing out "Proud Mary" 

as she cruises Christopher Street 

and some Southern Queen is acting loud and mean 

where the docks and the badlands meet 

This Halloween is something to be sure 

especially to be here without you 

There's a Greta Garbo and an Alfred Hitchcock 

and some black Jamaican stud 

There's five Cinderellas and some leather drags 

I almost fell into my mug 

There's a Crawford, Davis and a tacky Cary Grant 

and some Homeboys lookin' for trouble down here from the Bronx 

But there ain't no Hairy and no Virgin Mary 

you won't hear those voices again 

and Johny Rio and Rotten Rita 

you'll never see those faces again 

This Halloween is something to be sure 

especially to be here without you 

There's the Born Again Losers and the Lavender Boozers 

and some crack team from Washington Heights 

the boys from Avenue B and the girls from Avenue D 

Tinkerbell in tights 

This celebration somehow gets me down 

Especially when I see you're not around 

There's no Peter Pedantic saying things romantic 

In Latin, Greek or Spic 

There's no Three Bananas or Brandy Alexander 

Dishing all their tricks 

It's a different feeling that I have today 

Especially when I know you've gone away 

There's a girl from Soho with a teeshirt saying "I Blow" 

She's with the "jive five 2 plus 3" 

And the girls for pay dates are giving cut rates 

Or else doing it for free 

The past keeps knock knock knocking on my door 

And I don't want to hear it anymore 

No consolations please 

for feelin' funky 

I got to get my head above my knees 

But it makes me mad and mad makes me sad 

And then I start to freeze 

In the back of my mind I was afraid it might be true 

In the back of my mind I was afraid that they meant you 

The Halloween parade 

See you next year--- 

At the Halloween parade