| A long time ago, at a school I used to go to
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| Prom night, in the heat of July
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| The king and queen snogged by the toilets
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| The school band plays the Long Slow Goodbye
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| The limousines cook on the tarmac
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| And the teachers overseeing the event
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| Just wanna go back home
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| A boy vomits up his canteen dinner
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| In the high school’s honeysuckle garden
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| He mops his lips on a handkerchief
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| His peers are smoking and they’re lit up in halogen
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| On the way to the loo to wash his face
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| The king and queen are locked in an embrace
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| They learnt from a film
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| And I was waiting round the corner in my car
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| To pick up my sister, when this charade was over
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| And I was listening to the radio
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| Then a tap at the door from a limousine chauffer
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| I wound down my window, he said 'can you hear what I hear?'
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| And I listened to the wailing that was coming
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| From the gate of the school
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| And the wails became a flood
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| I never heard so many screams
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| People coming out covered in blood
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| Do you know what it was?
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| It was like Halloween
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| The smell of fear, and the smell of smoke
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| Mixed together in the fans and the flames
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| Like a perfume I’ll never forget
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| I ran around screaming her name
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| In the belly of a burning dog
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| I never saw her again
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| But sometimes I hear her in the rain
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| But I swear to god, that night
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| Before the sirens arrived on the scene
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| Something stepped out from under the rubble
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| Whatever it was
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| It was like Halloween
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| (oh, oh, it was like Halloween
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| Oh, oh, it was like Halloween
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| Oh, oh, it was like Halloween
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| Oh, oh, it was like Halloween) |