Ninja turtle green beret
special forces grandma
second hand pink slippers
and curlers in his hair

they're pushing John around
his wheel chair is a golf cart now
Vietnam a million lives away
like a dream they say

Halloween day down at the V.A.
it don't take much to make a party here

we're playing werewolves of London
with a zombie on guitar
they all shout "draw blood"
when Stevie takes a solo

he was in a Kiss tribute band
until they sent him to Afghanistan
and he never found the spirit
of Ace Freley again

Halloween day down at the V.A.
it don't take much to make a party here

some of these guys are here instead of jail
nobody visits and they don't get any mail
they started digging as soon as they got back
tunneling through purgatory, never getting home

orange crepe paper
candy corn and decorations
thirty broken men
thirty laughing boys

Halloween day down at the V.A.
it don't take much to make a party here

Posted Thursday, May 24th 2012