BUON CAPODANNO!!!

 

Halloween Parade (Lou Reed)

There's a downtown fairy singing out "Proud Mary"

as she cruises Christopher Street

And some southern queen

is acting loud and mean

where the docks and the badlands meet

This Halloween

is something to be sure

Especially

to be here without you

 There's a Greta Garbo and an Alfred Hitchcock

and some black Jamaican stud

There's five Cinderellas

and some leather drags

I almost fell into my mug

There's a Crawford, Davis

and a tacky Cary Grant

And some homeboys lookin'

for trouble down here from the Bronx

But there ain't no Hairy and no Virgin Mary

you won't hear those voices again

And Johnny Rio and Rotten Rita

you'll never see those faces again

This Halloween

is something to be sure

Especially

to be here without you

 There's the Born Again Losers

and the Lavender Boozers

and some crack team

from Washington Heights

The boys from Avenue B

the girls from Avenue D

a Tinkerbell in tights

This celebration

somehow gets me down

Especially

when I see you're not around

 There's no Peter Pedantic

saying things romantic

in Latin, Greek or Spic

There's no Three Bananas

or Brandy Alexander

dishing all their tricks

It's a different feeling

that I have today

Especially

when I know you've gone away

 There's a girl from Soho

with a T-shirt saying "I Blow"

she's with the "Jive Five 2 Plus 3"

And the girls for pay dates

are giving cut rates

or else doing it for free

The past keeps knock-knock

knocking on my door

And I don't want to

hear it anymore

 No consolations please

for feelin' funky

I got to get my head above my knees

But it makes me mad

and mad makes me sad

and then I start to freeze

In the back of my mind

I was afraid it might be true

In the back of my mind

I was afraid that they meant you

The Halloween Parade

At the Halloween Parade

At the Halloween Parade

See you next year

at the Halloween Parade