Jack`s Lament Lyrics

Jack`s Lament lyrics

Performed by Danny Elfman



There are few who'd deny, at what I do I
am the best

For my talents are renowned far and wide

When it comes
to surprises in the moonlit night

I excel without ever even trying

With the slightest little effort of my ghostlike charms

I have seen
grown men give out a shriek

With the wave of my hand, and a well-placed
moan

I have swept the very bravest off their feet



Yet year
after year, it's the same routine

And I grow so weary of the sound of
screams

And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King

Have grown so tired of the
same old thing



Oh, somewhere deep inside of these bones

An
emptiness began to grow

There's something out there, far from my home

A longing that I've never known



I'm a master of fright, and a
demon of light

And I'll scare you right out of your pants

To a guy
in Kentucky, I'm Mister Unlucky

And I'm known throughout England and
France

And since I am dead, I can take off my head

To recite
Shakespearean quotations

No animal nor man can scream like I can

With the fury of my recitations



But who here would ever
understand

That the Pumpkin King with the skeleton grin

Would tire
of his crown, if they only understood

He'd give it all up if he only
could



Oh, there's an empty place in my bones

That calls out
for something unknown

The fame and praise come year after year

Does
nothing for these empty tears