Halloween

[Intro]
Ab  Eb  Cm  Eb
Ab  Eb  Cm
 
 
[Verse 1]
    Eb                Cm         Bb
I'm sailin' away to a place I'm afraid of
    Ab         Eb        Fm
The dawn isn't here, the sun hasn't rose
    Cm                        Bb          Ab
I'm drinkin' my days with the coastal longshoreman
         Eb                Fm
They got money to make and children back home
    Eb                          Cm
The last that I heard, you were down in New Orleans
             Eb          Fm    Cm
Workin' your days at The Print
               Eb          Cm             Eb
I drink 'til I drown and I smoke 'til I'm burnin'
     Ab            Bb      Cm
Your hands are all over my scent
            Eb                 Cm
I worry for you, you worry for me
         Fm         Eb            Cm
And it's fine if we know we won't change
              Eb             Cm        Eb
Collect every dream in these old empty pockets
   Fm             Cm   Eb        Cm   Bb
In hope that I'll need them some day
 
 
[Chorus]
                    Cm        Fm
But the wreckage of you, I no longer reside in
        Eb                           Fm     Cm
And the bridges have long since been burnt
    Eb                     Ab
The ash of the home that I started the fire in
   Eb                      Cm
It starts to return to the Earth
    Eb                        Cm
I'm leavin' this town and I'm changin' my address
  Ab               Eb          Fm
I know that you'll come if you want
              Eb
It's not Halloween, but the ghost you're dressed up as
     Cm                          Fm
Sure knows how to haunt, yes, it knows how to haunt
 
 
[Post-Chorus]
Ab     Fm
Mm-hmm-mm
 
 
[Verse 2]
        Ab         Eb          Cm
It's an ode to the hole that I found myself stuck in
  Ab           Eb           Fm
A song for the grave that I dug
          Cm
There's a murder of crows in the low light off Boston
    Eb                      Fm
And I see your face in each one
                         Cm
I'm losin' myself in the tiniest objects
              Eb        Cm
I'm seein' my life on a screen
    Ab           Eb         Cm
I'm hearin' your voice in a strange foreign language
   Fm     Bb             Cm
If only I learned how to speak
 
 
[Chorus]
                    Cm        Fm
But the wreckage of you, I no longer reside in
        Eb                           Fm
And the bridges have long since been burnt
    Eb                     Ab
The ash of the home that I started the fire in
   Eb                      Cm
It starts to return to the Earth
    Eb                        Cm
I'm leavin' this town and I'm changin' my address
  Ab               Eb          Fm
I know that you'll come if you want
              Eb
It's not Halloween, but the ghost you're dressed up as
     Cm                          Fm
Sure knows how to haunt, yes, it knows how to haunt
 
 
[Post-Chorus]
Ab
Mm-hmm-mm (Ah-ooh, ooh)
    Cm
You know how to haunt
Fm
Know how to haunt
Eb
Mm-hmm-mm (Ah-ooh, ooh)
Cm
Mm-hmm-mm (Ah-ooh, ooh, ooh)
Eb
Ah, ooh
Cm
Mm-hmm-mm (Ah-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh)
 
 
[Outro]
  Ab            Eb            Cm
I know that you fear that I'm wicked and weary
  Eb                        Fm
I know that you fearin' the end
      Eb                           Cm
But I only tell the truth when I'm sure that I'm lyin'
   Eb                    Cm
So I'm settin' sail once again