Jack's Lament

Jack's Lament Song is a song from the 1993 Christmas movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Lyrics

 * 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