We Need A Little Spooky//October 78th, 2024

As you can probably imagine, being a retail worker this time of year means I'm forced to listen to quite a bit of Christmas music against my will. 

And my store is relentless with it. I've been to other stores where they at least get a mixture, a few traditional grocery store pop songs, then a few Christmas songs, and so on, but my job goes hard on nothing but Christmas from the time I clock in until the time I clock out. And a lot of the songs are the same, just with a different singer or maybe a slightly different style. 

One song I hear pretty consecutively every year, is We Need A Little Christmas. Aside from the fact that this song always makes me think of a special I had recorded from when the live action 101 Dalmatians film was coming out, I have, for many years, felt as if a Halloween version of this song would be my ultimate theme song. After all, it's all about feeling blue and needing the comfort of your favorite time of year, and the excitement that it brings to your life when the decorations start to go up. 

The other day, while the song was playing at work, I briefly thought it was strange that no one has ever written anything like it for Halloween, and then, I finally just decided to go ahead and do it myself. 

This may not be my best work, as life has been exhausting lately and my creative juices aren't quite flowing the way I'd like them to be, but I figured I should share it, for anyone else who may be struggling this time of year and be searching for solace in Halloween.

I present to you:

We Need A Little Spooky

Haul out the horror!

Put Jack the Reaper on those Spirit doors again! 

Fill up the treat pails! 

Don't care what month it is, i just want Halloween now!

For we need a little spooky, right this very minute.

Pumpkin in the window, brightest candle in it.

Yes we need a little spooky, right this very minute. 

They may say we rush the seasons, but we always have our reasons! 

Build up the graveyard,

Put up the tallest skeleton I've ever seen! 

String up the sheet ghosts.

Let's hang some spider webs out on the evergreen bough! 

For I've grown a little moody, grown a little colder;

Grown a little sadder, grown a little older

And I need a little spirit sitting on my shoulder

Need a little spooky now

For we need a little haunting, trick-or-treaters' laughter.

Need a little screaming  ringing through the rafters.

And we need a little jumpscare, coming from a slasher.

We need a little spooky now!

(If you need a frame of reference for the tune of the song, you can listen to the original Christmas classic here.) 

Also, it may interest you to know that I rewrote It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas back in 2021, to reflect how Christmas often pushes Halloween out of the spotlight. 

Stay spooky, my friends, and don't be afraid to need a little spooky during this most overwhelming time of the year! (Perhaps that's the next song I should do!)