Nightmare Before Christmas - Town Meeting Song Lyrics

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[JACK] 
Listen everyone. There were objects so peculiar 
They were not to be believed 
All around, things to tantalize my brain 

It's a world unlike anything I've ever seen 
And as hard as I try 
I can't seem to describe 
Like a most improbable dream 

But you must believe when I tell you this 
It's as real as my skull and it does exist 
Here, let me show you 

This is a thing called a present 
The whole thing starts with a box 

[HARLEQUIN DEMON] 
A box? 

[DEVIL] 
is it steel? 

[WEREWOLF] 
Are there locks? 

[HARLEOUIN DEMON]
Is it filled with a pox? 

[DEVIL]
A pox 
How delightful, a pox 

[JACK] 
If you please 
Just a box with bright-colored paper 
And the whole thing's topped with a bow 

[WITCHES] 
A bow? 
But why? 
How ugly 
What's in it? 
What's in it? 

[JACK] 
That's the point of the thing, not to know 

[CLOWN] 
It's a bat 

[CREATURE UNDER THE STAIRS] 
Will it bend? 

[CLOWN] 
It's a rat 

[CREATURE UNDER THE STAIRS] 
Will it break? 

[UNDERSEA GAL] 
Perhaps it s the head that I found in the lake 

[JACK] 
Listen now, you don't understand 
That's not the point of Christmas land 

Now, pay attention 
We pick up an oversized sock 
And hang it like this on the wall 

[MR. HYDE] 
Oh, yes! Does it still have a foot? 

[MEDIUM MR. HYDE] 
Let me see, let me look 

[SMALL MR. HYDE] 
Is it rotted and covered with gook? 

[JACK] 
Umm, let me explain 
There's no foot inside, but there's candy 
Or sometimes it's filled with small toys 

[MUMMY AND WINGED DEMON] 
Small toys! 

[WINGED DEMON] 
Do they bite? 

[MUMMY] 
Do they snap? 

[WINGED DEMON] 
Or explode in a sack? 

[CORPSE KID] 
Or perhaps they just spring out 
And scare girls and boys 

[MAYOR] 
What a splendid idea 
This Christmas sounds fun 
I fully endorse it 
Let's try it at once 

[JACK] 
Everyone, please now, not so fast 
There's something here that you don't quite grasp 
Well, I may as well give them what they want 

And the best, I must confess, I have saved for the last 
For the ruler of this Christmas land 
Is a fearsome king with a deep mighty voice 
Least that's what I've come to understand 

And I've also heard it told 
That he's something to behold 
Like a lobster, huge and red 
And sets out to slay with his rain gear on 
Carting bulging sacks with his big great arms 
That is, so I've heard it said 

And on a dark, cold night 
Under full moonlight 
He flies into a fog 
Like a vulture in the sky 
And they call him Sandy Claws hu hu hu

Well, at least they're excited 
Though they don't understand 
That special kind of feeling in Christmas land 
Oh, well...

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lyrics submitted by LoLo
lyrics corrected by Alyssa on 11-07-2007