歌詞

Midnight mischief, come out and play

Turn the moon the other way

Put your ordinary name away

We’re beautifully strange tonight

Midnight mischief, follow the glow

Through the door that shadows know

One more step and the rooftops fly

We’re beautifully strange tonight

Tick-tock — who stole the time?

Flip-flop — your shadow or mine?

Knock-knock — the moon says, “Come inside”

Welcome to the other side

October folds a letter through my door

An address where there’s never been a floor

I take the stairs between eleven and twelve

My shadow rings the doorbell by itself

A velvet fox is selling bottled rain

The chimney smoke becomes a midnight train

You lift your mask to get a better view

The painted stars lean down to look at you

Leave your coat with the chandelier

It’s been holding autumn all these years

Hear that tune through the crooked wall?

Someone knew that we would call

Shall we?

Midnight mischief, come out and play

Turn the moon the other way

Put your ordinary name away

We’re beautifully strange tonight

Midnight mischief, follow the glow

Through the door that shadows know

One more step and the rooftops fly

We’re beautifully strange tonight

Tick-tock — who stole the time?

Flip-flop — your shadow or mine?

Knock-knock — the moon says, “Come inside”

Welcome to the other side

The pumpkin lanterns flicker when you lie

You say, “I’m not afraid” — they all burn bright

I laugh until the cobblestones begin

To rearrange the trouble that we’re in

A ballroom hangs beneath a wishing well

The dancers turn whenever raindrops fall

You take my hand before I ask you to

The whole room tilts to make a path for two

Black cat, brass latch, tap twice, step back

Street signs shuffle when the sky goes black

Left takes a year, right takes a minute

Found a little door with a thunderstorm in it

Name on the guest list? Ink ran away

Paid with a promise I forgot yesterday

Mask slips, grin sticks, strange but true

You wear a disguise till it looks like you

Every bell has a different chime

Every room keeps a different time

But your fingers fit between mine

Let the city twist tonight

Midnight mischief, come out and play

Turn the moon the other way

Put your ordinary name away

We’re beautifully strange tonight

Midnight mischief, follow the glow

Through the door that shadows know

One more step and the rooftops fly

We’re beautifully strange tonight

I wore a braver face to venture in

Now daylight’s waiting for my borrowed skin

You turn my mask and write a note inside

“You never needed this to walk beside me”

The clock strikes thirteen

The rooftops shake

We leave before the city wakes—

Midnight mischief, come out and play

Turn the moon the other way

Put your ordinary name away

We’re beautifully strange tonight

Midnight mischief, daylight is close

Gold runs down the sleeping roads

Take my hand where the blue flames die

Bring a little strange to life

Tick-tock — we stole the time

Flip-flop — your hand in mine

Knock-knock — beneath the morning light

Something in my pocket shines

A little brass key

With a pumpkin grin

Next October…

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