Track Insight / Lyrics
Cab idles at the corner of Elm and Main
Jack-o-lanterns grin through windowpane
Black cat slips across the wet slate roof
No fare tonight, just ghost and hoof
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Wipers swipe the witching hour
Tires hum on phantom power
Radio plays a dead man's tune
Underneath the hunter's moon
Black cat midnight, prowling high
Silent paws on slate, October sky
No headlights catch those golden eyes
Just meter running, no surprise
Black cat midnight, owns the night
Taxman watches, yields the right
Picked up a vampire at Third and Vine
Paid in coins from nineteen-oh-nine
Witch in the backseat, smell of sage
Left her broom on the passenger cage
Skeleton keys don't start no car
But they know exactly where you are
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Wipers swipe the witching hour
Tires hum on phantom power
Radio plays a dead man's tune
Underneath the hunter's moon
Black cat midnight, prowling high
Silent paws on slate, October sky
No headlights catch those golden eyes
Just meter running, no surprise
Black cat midnight, owns the night
Taxman watches, yields the right
Fog rolls thick off the river bend
Passengers vanish before the end
No tips tonight, just candy corn
Wrappers left on seats worn torn
Old pros know the unwritten rule
Halloween rides, you don't play fool
Steering wheel shakes at the railroad crossing
Cat arches back, no fear of tossing
Engine coughs, then catches fire
Same route driven, thirty years prior
Some nights the streetlights bend and blur
Some nights the cat is conqueror
Black cat midnight, prowling high
Silent paws on slate, October sky
No headlights catch those golden eyes
Just meter running, no surprise
Black cat midnight, owns the night
Taxman watches, yields the right
Dawn breaks pale on cemetery stone
Last fare dropped, I drive alone
Cat sits waiting on my hood ornament
King of alleys, king of pavement
Engine off, keys in my coat
Another Halloween, another note
Black cat midnight, prowling high
Silent paws on slate, October sky
No headlights catch those golden eyes
Just meter running, no surprise
Black cat midnight, owns the night
Taxman watches, yields the right
Black cat midnight, owns the night
Taxman watches, yields the right
Meter clicks zero, shift complete
Black cat sleeps on the driver's seat