[Intro] He takes off the crown She shakes out the wheat One night they get The ordinary street [Verse 1] She’s Miss Straw in a coat That almost fits right He’s the Pumpkin King With his grin filed polite Used to moonlit marches Used to howlin’ choirs Used to graves that applaud When they set the night on fire Now they’re under drugstore lights Buyin’ nothing they need This quiet human weather Don’t match their kind of heat [Pre-Chorus] No bats in the rafters No drums in the ground Just people with paychecks Passin’ them around They know how to haunt They don’t know how to be One night among normals And it feels too clean [Chorus] One night free Walkin’ with the warm Scarecrow and her Pumpkin King Out of uniform This ain’t their cathedral This ain’t their parade This is milk and small talk And it makes ’em feel strange One night free Don’t feel like a gift Feels like two nightmares Tryin’ on a livin’ fit [Verse 2] He holds the door Like a gentleman curse She watches a mother Wipe a real child’s shirt He’s used to bone laughter She’s used to crows This soft little kindness Hits harder than a ghost He says “is this peace?” She says “I don’t know My hands keep waitin’ For the dark to show” A clerk says enjoy your night He almost bows Old habit from a kingdom That don’t work here now [Pre-Chorus] They try a slow dance In a parking-lot glow No skeleton orchestra No fog for a show Just a radio leaking Some ordinary song Two legends of Halloween Feelin’ all wrong [Chorus] One night free Walkin’ with the warm Scarecrow and her Pumpkin King Out of uniform This ain’t their cathedral This ain’t their parade This is milk and small talk And it makes ’em feel strange One night free Don’t feel like a gift Feels like two nightmares Tryin’ on a livin’ fit [Bridge] He misses the throne She misses the post They miss bein’ monsters That the living fear most Still she lets him take Her rag-and-wheat hand In a town that don’t know They don’t quite belong to man “Don’t fall for the quiet” That’s what she means “Quiet’s a costume On a pair of old dreams” [Verse 3] Clock leans toward three The air gets its teeth His smile grows longer Straw shows through her seam Normals blink twice And the spell goes thin He puts back the crown She buttons the grin They don’t run from morning They just step off the map Back to the woods Where the weird fits like that [Chorus] One night free Walkin’ with the warm Scarecrow and her Pumpkin King Out of uniform This ain’t their cathedral This ain’t their parade This is milk and small talk And it makes ’em feel strange One night free Don’t feel like a gift Feels like two nightmares Tryin’ on a livin’ fit [Outro] Crown in his hand Wheat in her hair They had the whole town And they still didn’t live there One night free Then the dark says come home Scarecrow and her Pumpkin King Where they belong
