The Kings of Halloween

from Other People​’​s Lives by Dan Campbell

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Hey Kathy, can you hear me? How you doing? I could use you tonight. Hey Kathy, are you listening? I gotta question, and you were usually right. You told me to go to Susequahanna, and it changed my whole life. You said not to rush home in a snowstorm, and we got stuck there on the drive. You came to rescue me. You’d always rescue me. Hey Kathy, I started a garden, but I wasn’t blessed with your green thumb. So, there on my skin, I planted roses, I planted hyacinths, I planted mums and a bouquet of hydrangeas ‘cause they remind me of you, and one single sunflower like the ones you always grew, and a lilly for my sister. Ma, she misses you. Hey Kathy, when we were children, you made us feel like we were the sun. I never knew that we didn’t have money. You kept us learning and we didn’t want. You took us to Tuscarora; we had picnics on the beach. Sewed us all of our own costumes; we were the kings of Halloween. You drove Ian down to Philly to witness Springsteen. Hey Kathy, when I think that I’m crumbling, I stand up straighter ‘cause you built me strong. You taught us empathy. You taught us to take care of each other. You taught us selflessness. You taught us love. So we’ll light bayberry candles every year on Christmas Eve, and we’ll be home for Sunday dinner; we’ll cook all your old recipes. We’ll keep moving forward. That’s what you’d wanna see. Hey Kathy...

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from Other People​’​s Lives, released November 19, 2021

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Dan Campbell Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dan Campbell is a storyteller moonlighting as a songwriter and this is his first time releasing music under his own name. You might know him from his work in The Wonder Years or Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties. This is him by himself, mostly. Some friends helped. They were kind to do so and they added a lot of depth to these songs ... more

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