Halloween Parade

Lou Reed - Halloween Parade Lyrics

　
　　There's a down town 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 and the girls from Avenue D
　　a Tinkerbell in tights
　　This celebration somehow get 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 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
　　




　　Halloween is a night when, across America, fantasies come to life. Lower Manhattan is no exception as New Yorkers turn out en masse to the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. They come for the entertainment to see the parade's signature papier-mache puppet bobbing above the crowds, and to indulge in an elaborate game of dress-up. 　　Everyday rules are temporarily suspended and thousands of costumed New Yorkers parade in the streets without fear of being judged. Men in hats (and little else) walk alongside kazoo-playing old ladies. No one is worried by the bizarre or weird, because at the Village Parade, Halloween is a night when anything goes. 　　Anything but crime, that is. Halloween, a night of mayhem in most other U.S. cities, is peaceful in Greenwich Village. The joyous spirit of the partygoers results in a night when crime is lower than on any other night of the year. This proves, in more ways than one, that Halloween is when one's wildest fantasies can come true for New Yorkers.