Michael Myers Resplendent

Lyrics

I am ready for my close up today
Too long I’ve let my self-respect stand in my way
Well the prom queen's caught in the high beams
And the strings keen, it’s a big scene

But when the house goes up in flames
No one emerges triumphantly from it
When the scum begins to circle the drain
Everybody loves a winner

I spent eight hours in my make-up chair
Waxed my chest and shaved off all my hair
Well the fire's bright and the frame's tight
Try to get right—Well, we’ve still got light

But when the house goes up in flames
No one emerges triumphantly from it
When the scum begins to circle the drain
Everybody loves a winner

Banter

• The thing about me when I was a child, that sort of made me - I don’t want to say different in a way that maybe you would value - what type would get noticed is that, like, when I would see even a trailer for a horror movie, I believed everyone in the movie was literally going to die. And I’d see the movie and everybody else - you know, they’d show it at like a pool party when I’m eleven or something - they’d say, ‘Ah, that’s so fake!’ Does not look fake to me. I know- I hear what you’re saying but even if they’re not all going to die now, the point of the movie is that eventually they all die. You know, of old age or whatever. [inaudible] alive. That’s also terrifying, right. 'Okay, well, we’ll invite you to the next party, John. We hope you’ll do better at that one.’ This envisions the star of the Halloween movies sort of in soliloquy. (2012-06-22)

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