Pumpkin Boy

Pumpkin Boy : Audio Clip

You need QuickTime to play this clip.

Pumpkin Boy : Info

This is another song from 1998, also written in Vienna. Its inspiration came from the Charlie Brown Halloween Special, where Linus spends Halloween in the pumpkin patch, waiting for the Great Pumpkin to come and give presents to all the good little boys and girls. Everyone laughed the poor kid to scorn, but I kept thinking, "Man...what if he was right?" I remember reading someone's definition of hell, and it had something to do with everyone calling you a liar when you told the truth. This song is for them.

Pumpkin Boy : Lyrics

Pumpkin Boy has got his back against the wall
just like Bubba's cell-mate (who's seen his better days),
but he's not looking for someone on his side,
and naked he'll never be 'cuz he's got nothing to hide.
You can't tell him what to think or say,
his head might be made of mush but he'll do things his own way.

Hey Cracker Jack, why don't you behave?
If you'd stop and think a while, oh, the breath you'd save!
You said "he ain't real!" so you could sleep at night,
but truth is truth and that don't change under any kind of light.
Your butt is glued there, as near as I can tell,
and if you put your money down, it would snow in Hell -

Oh Pumpkin Boy
Be the Pumpkin Boy
Be the Pumpkin Boy
Mighty Pumpkin Boy

Pumpkin Boy will fly o'er the seas of doubt
and liberate and redeem and let the freedom out.
Down trodden by the dillusions of men
who were scared to see his light,
ignored by the paranoid graced with second sight -
there's not way they could be anything but right (ha!)

You're laughing at the baby while sucking your thumb,
but majority rules (I guess) and he's the one who's dumb.
You killed the buffalo, had sex with I don't know,
and killed a man for peace.
Did you know the world ain't flat? Mickey is a rat?
And Elvis is dead by now!

Oh Pumpkin Boy
Be the Pumpkin Boy
Be the Pumpkin Boy
Mighty Pumpkin Boy

Linus will be out in the pumpkin patch tonight
laughing the time away.
Pumpkin, he'll be there, walking on air,
and a light will shine from within.
Just keep the faith that some pumpkins fly,
and like the monkey's uncle they will take to the sky.

Oh Pumpkin Boy
Be the Pumpkin Boy
Be the Pumpkin Boy
Mighty Pumpkin Boy

« Prev. Song | Album Info | Next Song »