I've watched three decades of Halloweens pass
Children grow tall like autumn grass
Witches and ghosts in plastic sacks
Return next year with heavier backs
Same old route same broken glass
Sodium pumpkin burning bright
Guides the treaters through the night
Orange light on vampire capes
Sweetness hides in paper shapes
Rain slicks the curb where pirates stand
A princess drops her candy hand
I flicker once a steady beat
While skeleton feet tap down the street
Light falls slow on this haunted land
Sodium pumpkin burning bright
Guides the treaters through the night
Orange light on vampire capes
Sweetness hides in paper shapes
Old man Winter breathes down my pole
Summer's gone lost its control
The meter clicks in taxi cabs
While ghouls collect their sugar slabs
Time takes toll on every soul
Sodium pumpkin burning bright
Guides the treaters through the night
Orange light on vampire capes
Sweetness hides in paper shapes
Midnight chimes from church tower bell
Spells are cast and broken spell
My filament hums a low refrain
Same old glow same old rain
Dawn cracks open gray and thin
Wrappers scatter where they've been
I dim my eye the shift is done
Until next autumn brings the fun
Night reclaims what day lets win
Sodium pumpkin burning bright
Guides the treaters through the night
Orange light on vampire capes
Sweetness hides in paper shapes
Year by year the same parade
Underneath my amber shade
Amber fades on morning dew
Another Halloween paid due