Around the Fire They Danced
Driving down the highway
In the pitch black dead of night
The hairs on the back of my neck
Indications, not all is right
A long meandering bend
In the distance reveals a glow
Has captured my curiosity
My driving runs to slow
I pull in to the kerbside
Beside a country church
I make my way towards the glow
In curiosity search
Up in the distance
I hear the sound of chanting
It has the feeling of evil
Dark, eerie and haunting
I reach a harvested clearing
Beside a tree I stand
The chanting is now a visual
Children in a circle stand
Standing in the middle
A figure is set ablaze
A wicker man type shape
As the fire with him plays
Once the chantings finished
The children start to dance
In hypnotic trancing fashion
They sing as they prance
Ring a ring of pumpkins
Theirs fire in his eyes
Us children of the fields
As we dance, the burning pumpkin cries
More and more they dance
As the flames climb his frame
The louder the children chant
Tells me, this is no game
As I slowly watch
The fire erupts through it's eyes
As if with a rush of oxygen
The last of all it's cries
When the fire deadens
The children turn and go
Every one a blond
Their eyes in yellow glow
Across the field they skip
Singing the same song
It's time for me to leave
For here I don't belong
Ring a ring of pumpkins
Theirs fire in his eyes
Us children of the fields
As we dance, the burning pumpkin cries
In nervous stealth like fashion
I head back to my car
My speed turns to fast
From that glow, I'll soon be far
The next day in the paper
And the headline on the news
In the town that I just drove through
A body in melted fuse
Every Halloween
A missing dispatch is sent
Am I the one who knows
How his last moments were spent
Every night for weeks
I cannot get to sleep
All I hear inside my head
Their words on me slowly creep
Ring a ring of pumpkins
Theirs fire in his eyes
Us children of the fields
As we dance, the burning pumpkin cries
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