Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Happy Phantom” — Tori Amos (1992)

And if I die today I’ll be the happy phantomAnd I’ll go chasin’ the nuns out in the yardAnd I’ll run naked through the streets without my mask onAnd I will never need umbrellas in the rainI’ll wake up in Strawberry Fields every dayAnd the atrocities of school I can forgiveThe happy phantom has no…

And here are some notes of community interest, or: “The Happy Phantom has no right to bitch…”

I got that title from a George Carlin routine from his classic A Place For My Stuff album, a record I pretty much wore the crap out of when I first bought it 30+ years ago. I think, if I try hard enough, I might be able to recite the entire “Fussy Eater” routine from…