#OhItsHalloween? -------- Pararam dan dan, pararam dan dan Badabadaraaaammm I sold the pearls they gave me One by one, I didn't cry Every ring became a passage Every earring, miles of sea Locked the piano, took the key Signed the line that said goodbye But a house can't read the paper So it kept a room for me Mother writes me every Sunday "Come back home, it's not too late" I read every word so gently Then I feed them to the grate Better fever in a garret With the Seine to watch me sleep Than the gentle house back home And the room it means to keep I woke up without waking Cotton where my voice had been They perfume me, stitch me gently Lace the collar to my chin Through the glass the sea runs backward Every wave I'd crossed before I had sworn I'd never go back But my body never swore They came to see me like a saint Whispered prayers against the glass Then one night a red-haired fire Came to let the lady pass I unlocked my old piano With the key I'd always kept Played until the ceiling fell And this time, this time, I left Pararam dan dan, pararam dan dan Badabadaraaaammm
