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There's a downtown fairy singing out "
Proud Mary"as she cruises Christopher Streetand some Southern Queen is acting loud and meanwhere the docks and the badlands meet
This Halloween is something to be sureespecially to be here without you
There's a Greta Garbo and an Alfred Hitchcockand 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 Grantand some Homeboys lookin' for trouble down here from the Bronx
But there ain't no Hairy and no Virgin Maryyou won't hear those voices againand Johny Rio and Rotten Ritayou'll never see those faces again
This Halloween is something to be sureespecially to be here without you
There's the Born Again Losers and the Lavender Boozersand some crack team from Washington Heightsthe boys from Avenue B and the girls from Avenue D
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 teeshirt 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 pleasefor 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
See you next year---
At the Halloween parade
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