Buttkickin' Halloween Songs: "The Hell Of It" -- Paul Williams (1974)

Another year, another round of Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs. But alas, Halloween 2014 draws to a close, so I hope you’ve had half as much fun with this year’s collection of tunes as I had putting it together. Until next year, my friends. Have an awesomely spooky and utterly buttkickin’ Halloween.

One more from the inimitable Paul Williams and the Phantom of the Paradise soundtrack.

-El Hokeydude

Roll on thunder shine on lightnin’
The days are long and the nights are frightnin’
Nothing matters anyway and that’s the hell of it
Winter comes and the winds blow colder
Well some grew wiser you just grew older
And you never listened anyway and that’s the hell of it

Good for nothin’, bad in bed
Nobody likes you and you’re better off dead goodbye
We’ve all come to say goodbye goodbye
Born defeated, died in vain
Super destruction you were hooked on pain
And tho’ your music lingers on
All of us are glad you’re gone

If I could live my life half as worthlessly as you
I’m convinced that I’d wind up burning too

Love yourself as you love no other
Be no man’s fool be no man’s brother
We’re all born to die alone y’know that’s the hell of it
Life’s a game where they’re bound to beat you
And time’s a trick they can turn to cheat you
And we only waste it anyway and that’s the hell of it