[Verse 1] It started in a little town On a cold October night A man was found beneath the moon With no one there in sight No fingerprints, no broken locks No reason anyone could see Just one strange mark upon his thigh A crescent, like the sea Then another town, another man Another body in the rain The newspapers began to count But no one knew the name They searched from coast to coast to coast For something they could share Until they found the mark again A half moon hidden there [Pre-Chorus] Red, blue, green and brown Pink, orange, purple, yellow Eight men walking through the dark And something walking with them [Chorus] She’s coming back on Halloween Two hundred twenty-two A thousand years beneath the ground She’s coming back for you Eight colours on eight men Eight bloodlines left to pay The sons of those who killed the witch Are dying one by one today A crescent on the right thigh A warning from the dead You can run from town to town But you can’t outrun what’s bred When midnight strikes and candles fade Don’t look beneath the moon Because the witch who died before Is coming back for you [Verse 2] A thousand years ago they came Eight men beneath the trees They dragged a witch before the fire And brought her to her knees One held the rope, one lit the flame One spoke the words that sealed her fate One watched her beg, one turned away One locked the iron gate Two stood behind and did nothing While the others carried on And when she died upon the twenty-second Her curse had just begun She whispered through the flames that night “I’ll return when time is due Two hundred twenty-two years from now I’ll come collecting you” [Pre-Chorus] But they thought the dead stay dead And legends disappear Until the crescent children came Two hundred twenty-two years later [Chorus] She’s coming back on Halloween Two hundred twenty-two A thousand years beneath the ground She’s coming back for you Eight colours on eight men Eight bloodlines left to pay The sons of those who killed the witch Are dying one by one today A crescent on the right thigh A warning from the dead You can run from town to town But you can’t outrun what’s bred When midnight strikes and candles fade Don’t look beneath the moon Because the witch who died before Is coming back for you [Verse 3] The red one wears his father’s sin The man who struck the blow The blue one bears the watchman’s blood Who stood and let her go The green one comes from he who spoke The words that made her burn The brown one bears the keeper’s blood Who locked the gate and turned The pink one comes from cowardice The man who walked away The orange from the one who fed The fire that stole the day The purple from the man who laughed As she screamed beneath the flame The yellow from the final man Who signed away her name [Bridge] And every death is different Every punishment is planned The witch remembers everything The fire, the rope, the hands Red sees the flames Blue hears the screams Green speaks the verdict Brown guards the dreams Pink feels the coward’s fear Orange tastes the smoke Purple wears the laughter Yellow bears the oath Eight doors slam at midnight Eight candles lose their light Eight sons become the payment For one forgotten night [Final Chorus] She’s coming back on Halloween Two hundred twenty-two A thousand years beneath the ground She’s coming back for you Eight colours on eight men Eight bloodlines left to pay The sons of those who killed the witch Are dying one by one today A crescent on the right thigh A warning from the dead You can run from town to town But you can’t outrun what’s bred When midnight strikes and candles fade Don’t look beneath the moon Because the witch who died before Is coming back for you [Outro] When morning finds the empty streets The bells will count to eight A crescent burns beneath the skin And no one cheats their fate The last man hears her at the door He knows what he must do He lifts the latch, the moon looks in And she comes back for you
