The Nightmare Before Christmas movie - Town Meeting lyrics
rate me<br>
[JACK]<br>
There were object so peculiar<br>
They were not to be believed<br>
All around, things to tantalize my brain<br>
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It's a world unlike anything I've ever seen<br>
And as hard as I try<br>
I can't seem to describe<br>
Like a most improbable dream<br>
<br>
But you must believe when I tell you this<br>
It's as real as my skull and it does exist<br>
Here, let me show you<br>
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This is a thing called a present<br>
The whole thing starts with a box<br>
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[DEVIL]<br>
A box?<br>
Is it steel?<br>
<br>
[WEREWOLF]<br>
Are there locks?<br>
<br>
[HARLEQUIN DEMON]<br>
Is it filled with a pox?<br>
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[DEVIL, WEREWOLF, HARLEQUIN DEMON]<br>
A pox<br>
How delightful, a pox<br>
<br>
[JACK]<br>
If you pleae<br>
Just a box with bright-colored paper<br>
And the whole thing's topped with a bow<br>
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[WITCHES]<br>
A bow?<br>
But why?<br>
How ugly<br>
What's in it?<br>
What's in it?<br>
<br>
[JACK]<br>
That's the point of the thing, not to know<br>
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[CLOWN]<br>
It's a bat<br>
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[CREATURE UNDER THE STAIRS]<br>
Will it bend?<br>
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[CLOWN]<br>
It's a rat<br>
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[CREATURE UNDER THE STAIRS]<br>
Will it break?<br>
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[UNDERSEA GAL]<br>
Perhaps it's the head that I found in the lake<br>
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[JACK]<br>
Listen now, you don't understand<br>
That's not the point of Christmas land<br>
<br>
Now, pay attention<br>
Now we pick up an over-sized sock<br>
And hang it like this on the wall<br>
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[MR. HYDE]<br>
Oh, yes! Does it still have a foot?<br>
<br>
[MEDIUM MR. HYDE]<br>
Let me see, let me look<br>
<br>
[SMALL MR. HYDE]<br>
Is it rotted and covered with gook?<br>
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[JACK]<br>
Hmm, let me explain<br>
There's no foot inside, but there's candy<br>
or sometimes it's filled with small toys<br>
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[MUMMY AND WINGED DEMON]<br>
Small toys<br>
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[WINGED DEMON]<br>
Do they bite?<br>
<br>
[MUMMY]<br>
Do they snap?<br>
<br>
[WINGED DEMON]<br>
Or explode in a sack?<br>
<br>
[CORPSE KID]<br>
Or perhaps they just spring out <br>
And scare girls and boys<br>
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[MAYOR]<br>
What a splendid idea<br>
This Christmas sounds fun<br>
Why, I fully endorse it<br>
Let's try it at once<br>
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[JACK]<br>
Everyone, please now, not so fast<br>
There's sometihng here that you don't quite grasp<br>
Well, I may as well give them what they want<br>
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And the best, I must confess, I have saved for the last<br>
For the ruler of this Christmas land<br>
Is a fearsome King with a deep mighty voice<br>
Least that's what I've come to understand<br>
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And I've also heard it told<br>
That's he's something to behold<br>
Like a lobster, huge and red<br>
And sets out to slay with his rain gear on<br>
Carting bulging sacks with his big great arms<br>
That is, so I've heard it said<br>
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And on a darkm cold night<br>
Under full moonlight<br>
He flies into a fog<br>
Like a vulture in the sky<br>
And they call him Sandy Claws<br>
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Well, at least they're excited<br>
Though they don't understand<br>
That special lind of feeling in Christmas land<br>
Oh, well...<br>
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