[ti:Halloween Parade] [ar:Lou Reed] [al:The Sire Years: The Solo Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Halloween Parade - Lou Reed (娄.里德) [00:01.03]There's a down town fairy singing out"Proud Mary" [00:03.87]As she cruises Christopher Street [00:05.59] [00:06.16]And some Southern Queen is acting loud and mean [00:09.61]Where the docks and the Badlands meet [00:12.45]This Halloween is something to be sure [00:18.39]Especially to be here without you [00:21.32] [00:23.95]There's a Greta Garbo and an Alfred Hitchcock [00:27.38]And some black Jamaican stud [00:29.72]There's five Cinderellas and some leather drags [00:31.21] [00:31.89]I almost fell into my mug [00:35.46]There's a Crawford Davis and a tacky Cary Grant [00:37.96] [00:41.24]And some homeboys lookin' for trouble down here from the Bronx [00:44.89] [00:46.93]But there ain't no Hairy and no Virgin Mary [00:49.79]You won't hear those voices again [00:52.66]And Johnny Rio and Rotten Rita [00:55.57]You'll never see those faces again [00:58.79]This Halloween is something to be sure [01:04.48]Especially to be here without you [01:09.98]There's the Born Again Losers and the Lavender Boozers [01:12.70]And some crack team from Washington Heights [01:15.57]The boys from Avenue B and the girls from Avenue D [01:18.22]A Tinkerbell in tights [01:21.25]This celebration somehow gets me down [01:24.29] [01:27.25]Especially when I see you're not around [01:32.64]There's no Peter Pedantic saying things romantic [01:34.88]In Latin Greek or Spic [01:38.31]There's no Three bananas or Brandy Alexander [01:40.99]Dishing all their tricks [01:44.03]It's a different feeling that I have today [01:50.04]Especially when I know you've gone away [01:55.34]There's a girl from Soho with a T-shirt saying"I blow" [01:58.76]She's with the 'Jive five 2 plus 3' [02:01.05]And the girls for pay dates are giving cut rates [02:04.29]Or else doing it for free [02:07.13]The past keeps knock knock knocking on my door [02:12.74]And I don't want to hear it anymore [02:15.13] [02:18.14]No consolations please for feelin' funky [02:20.89]I got to get my head above my knees [02:23.80]But it makes me mad and mad makes me sad [02:27.06]And then I start to freeze [02:29.44]In the back of my mind I was afraid it might be true [02:35.33]In the back of my mind I was afraid that they meant you [02:38.30] [02:42.63]The Halloween Parade [02:47.63]At the Halloween Parade [02:53.18]At the Halloween Parade [02:58.26]See you next year at the Halloween Parade [03:02.88](Halloween Parade) [03:04.89](Halloween Parade) [03:07.69](Halloween Parade)