[Intro – whispered] Halloween night… A house appears… A light in the window… But nobody knows who lives there. [Verse 1] The streets are dark, the moon is high, The children laugh as they wander by, A pumpkin grins beside the door, Like every other house they’ve seen before. A little sign in candlelight, Says “Trick or treaters welcome tonight,” They ring the bell, they hear it chime, The door swings open every time. [Pre-Chorus] A bowl of sweets upon a table, A little sign says, “Help yourselves,” They reach inside with laughing hands, Then suddenly… [CHORUS] SLAM! Goes the door, Round goes the floor, The house starts spinning faster, faster, faster! Gone in a flash, No footprints, no trace, Nothing but an empty space after! “Help yourselves,” That’s what it said, But nobody knew what waited ahead. Every Halloween, the house appears… And takes the children through the years. [Verse 2] The walls turn white, the lights burn cold, A secret place nobody’s told, Behind the glass the figures stand, With silver tools held in their hands. They call themselves the scientists, They say they’re making perfect kids, No more trouble, no more noise, No more tears and broken toys. They change their minds, they steal their dreams, They make them model students, it seems, Perfect manners, perfect grades, Perfect little faces in perfect little ways. [Pre-Chorus] Then back inside the house they go, The spinning starts, the engines glow, The house returns beneath the moon… And spits them back out far too soon. [CHORUS] SLAM! Goes the door, Round goes the floor, The house starts spinning faster, faster, faster! Gone in a flash, No footprints, no trace, Nothing but an empty space after! “Help yourselves,” That’s what it said, But nobody knew what waited ahead. Every Halloween, the house appears… And takes the children through the years. [Verse 3] They wake up standing in the street, Their parents crying, “You’re complete!” No memory of where they’ve been, No recollection of what they’ve seen. They’re polite, they’re calm, they never fight, They say “please” and “thank you” day and night, Their parents think, “What happened here?” But deep inside… Something hears. [MANIC BRIDGE – fast, whispered and building] Different towns! Different streets! Different countries! Different weeks! Every year! One single night! The same old house! The same porch light! Scientists! That’s what they claim! But something ancient knows your name! Centuries hiding underground, Watching while the world spins round! Taking children, changing minds, Building something we can’t find! You thought they were human! You thought they were sane! But look in their eyes… They’re wearing our faces! [BREAKDOWN – slow] They aren’t scientists… They never were. They came before us. They watched us grow. They learned our language. They learned our fear. And every Halloween… They come back here. [FINAL CHORUS – huge and sinister] SLAM! Goes the door, Round goes the floor, The house starts spinning faster, faster, faster! Gone in a flash, No footprints, no trace, Nothing but an empty space after! “Help yourselves…” That’s what they said… But the sweets were never meant to feed you. They were waiting… They were watching… And now they’re breeding… A perfect world of something not human. [Outro – whispered] So if a house appears on Halloween… And the pumpkin smiles… And the sign says… “ALL TRICK OR TREATERS WELCOME…” Don’t ring the bell. Because the house wasn’t there yesterday. And tomorrow… It won’t be there at all. But your child might be.
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