Danny Elfman - Jack's Lament (From “The Nightmare Before Christmas”/Soundtrack Version)

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[00:00.00]Jack's Lament (From “The Nightmare Before Christmas”/Soundtrack Version) - Danny Elfman
[00:14.52]There are few who deny at what I do I am the best
[00:19.02]For my talents are reowned far and wide
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[00:23.24]When it comes to surprises in the moonlit night
[00:27.60]I excel without ever even trying
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[00:31.78]With the slightest little effort of my ghostlike charms
[00:36.30]I have seen grown men give out a shriek
[00:39.90]
[00:40.61]With the wave of my hand and a well-placed moan
[00:45.30]I have swept the very bravest off their feet
[00:48.55]
[00:49.42]Yet year after year it's the same routine
[00:54.87]And I grow so weary of the sound of screams
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[01:00.23]And I Jack the PUMPKIN KING
[01:04.94]Have grown so tired of the same old thing
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[01:14.64]Oh somewhere deep inside of these bones
[01:19.38]And emptiness begins to grow
[01:25.53]There's something out there far from my home
[01:31.79]A longing that I've never known
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[01:41.65]I'm a master of fright and a demon of light
[01:46.01]And I'll scare you right out of your pants
[01:50.34]To a guy in Kentucky I'm Mister Unlucky
[01:54.81]And I'm known throughout England and France
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[01:59.02]And since I am dead I can take off my head
[02:03.23]To recite Shakespearean quotations
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[02:07.75]No animal or man can scream like I can
[02:12.25]With the fury of my recitations
[02:16.75]But who here would ever understand
[02:21.91]That the Pumpkin King with the skeleton grin
[02:26.91]Would tire of his crown- if they only understood
[02:32.05]He would give it all up if he only could
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[02:39.62]Oh there's an empty place in my bones
[02:45.80]That calls out for something unknown
[02:51.84]The fame and praise come year after year
[02:58.23]Does nothing for these empty tears