If They Only Knew

Style: Haunting Indie-Folk / Cinematic Pop (Dark, atmospheric, and told from a child's perspective)

(Verse 1)

I adjust my witch’s hat in the hallway mirror

While the shadows around me grow taller and nearer

The neighborhood kids are all counting their sweets

Laughing and running down the cobblestone streets

They think that the monsters are made out of plastic

But the things in my bedroom are much more fantastic

A boy from the twenties sits on my rug

Rolls a spectral marble, and gives me a shrug.

(Chorus)

Oh, if they only knew what walks through the door

The history dancing right over the floor

They’re trick-or-treating out under the sky

While I watch the world with a Halloween eye

A heavy dark secret tucked into my hood

If they only knew what goes on in this woods.

(Verse 2)

By seven o'clock, the veil starts to tear

The cold air is crowded with ghosts in the square

I hold my mom's hand as we walk past the park

Stepping through soldiers who died in the dark

A pioneer lady is crying near the swing

While the living kids shout and the doorbells all ring

I hide in my costume, I try not to stare

At the centuries of people who are standing right there.

(Bridge)

They ask why I’m quiet, they think that I'm shy

But I’m counting the phantoms that just floated by

My house is a ballroom of secrets and sighs

Locked in the stare of a hundred dead eyes

I blow out the candle in my jack-o'-lantern light

And wish them all a silent, ghostly goodnight.

(Outro)

Happy Halloween to the crowd on the street...

You don't see the spirits you're about to meet.

Yeah, if you only knew.

I'm just a kid on the porch...

But they’re watching you, too.