Halloween Snow - Ezra Furman, The Harpoons

Baby, you’re not afraid of flying

You just think you are

It’s all mental, darling

Think about how safe we are

Pretty soon we’ll be in Japan

We can get everything done

And not too long after that we’ll be married

Won’t that be fun?

She says, Look around this flight

Look at all these people goin' to Japan

They seem mostly black

I don’t see a single asian

What’d the pilot just say?

We’re headed to Zaire?

Somehow we must have made a mistake

We shouldn’t be here

Oh no, I shoulda known by the Halloween snow

That this trip just could not go away

I’ll be lost in the jungle with my fiance

Oh damn, I should be dating a more confidant man

I says, Honey please don’t be cruel

Words come out of your mouth into a puddle of drool

What are we gonna do when we land, she says

We’re not prepared for this

Baby, stop talking so much

It’s making me nervous

How about instead of being afraid of flying

And thinkin' 'bout our imminent time

You sneak off five minutes after me

Let’s go to the airplane bathroom

She says, Honey not now

It’s the wrong time

My lips began to move and I said

I’ll give you the wrong time

It’s two in the morning

And we’re on the wrong flight

But when we’re lost in Africa

It’ll be alright

I think I wanna see the purple and pink

Of the sunset shining through the trees

I’m never gonna learn to speak Japanese

I know I wanna stand in the Halloween snow

But I don’t know how I ended up this year

And everything is happenin' too soon this year

Oh, too soon!

We’re only kids!

We’re touching down

And maybe I don’t love you

The ground looks so brown

This can’t be Japan, I know it can’t

This is scarier

Than a hundred million plane wrecks

You seem so strange and I wonder

I achingly wonder what’s gonna happen next