SONG VERSIONS

NOTES
The song is nine seconds shorter on the TWELVE INCH SINGLES release -- it starts with a drum upbeat, and fades out a couple of beats later at the end than the TWELVE INCH SINGLES version.

RECORDING INFORMATION
produced by: Alain Jourgensen engineered by: Alain Jourgensen & Thom Moore engineered by: Alain Jourgensen (Halloween Remix) recorded at: Chicago Trax?, Chicago, IL (USA)

LYRICS (official)

Well, I live with snakes and lizards
And other things that go bump in the night
'Cause to me everyday is Halloween
I have given up hiding and started to fight
I have started to fight

Well, any time, any place, anywhere that I go
All the people seem to stop and stare
They say, "Why are you dressed like it's Halloween?
You look so absurd, you look so obscene"

Oh, why can't I live a life for me?
Why should I take the abuse that's served?
Why can't they see they're just like me
It's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world

Well, I let their teeny minds think
That they're dealing with someone who is over the brink
And I dress this way just to keep them at bay
'Cause Halloween is everyday, hey
It's everyday, hey

Oh, why can't I live a life for me?
Why should I take the abuse that's served?
Why can't they see they're just like me
I'm not the one that's so absurd

Why hide it?
Why fight it?
Hurt feelings best to stop feeling hurt
From denials, reprisals
It's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world