John and Sheila Ludgate - Halloween Dad

He got a call from the mother of his kids said, “You wanna take them out on Halloween?
They’d love to see their Dad and I can’t do everything
You can take them trick or treating just try to be back by eight
They’re still pretty young and they get pretty tired if they’re out too late”

So he gets there at six and he knocks on the door of a house he once called home The kids have got their costumes on, they’re ready to go
Superman and Batman and a little angel with a broken wing
He tries to smile at their mother, but it’s a sad and shy and nervous thing

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And he says to the kids c’mon let’s go, and they’re out the door and for a moment
he’s alone
With a woman he’s known and shared so many years
She doesn’t look up, just says you better go, they’re waiting outside, they miss
you, you know
And he can see her trying to hold back the tears

So he makes the rounds in the old neighbourhood and the laughter of the kids it sounds so good
And he wishes he could make everything OK again Superman and Batman and a little angel with a broken wing
Your Dad doesn’t live with you anymore but he’ll take you out on Halloween

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Where does love go, nobody knows, there’s just broken hearts on the side of the road
With the broken promises and all the broken dreams
Everybody’s missing someone, what’s done is done, now the kids live with their Mom
But their Dad still takes them out on Halloween