Your Neighborhood Gives Me the Creeps
Copyright 2005 by Adam Selzer. All rights reserved, ASCAP
released 2006 on Clark Street Carols

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Chorus:
Your neighborhood gives me the creeps
Your neighborhood gives me the creeps
Oooohhhhh
Your neighborhood gives me the creeps

You live off Cemetery Road
Out your window the old graveyard groans
With roses and weeds
That grow out to the street
Further than weeds ought to grow

The bank condemned most of the homes
The trees all have branches like bones
That go “scritch scratch”
At the window latch
I never feel like we’re alone

CHORUS

There's a man and he stands ankle-deep
in a big pile of skeleton leaves
in a bent top hat
of pilgrim black
when I walk by him he winks at me

The streetlights make shadows that yawn
Long after daylight is gone
I hear cackles and screams
That come back in the dreams
Of the girl who appears on the lawn

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So can we please sleep at my house tonight?


extra verses:
That one kid’s out there all the time
He looks like it’s 1959
In his Western-style wear
Never moves, he just stares
At the old faded speed limit sign

What about the old woman next door
I could swear that I’ve seen her before
Don’t know where or when
But she’s out there again
Watching us both through the door


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