Run the wire six feet underground.
Pick a number and put your hollow body on.
(Crack the code and snap the neck,
liver in the freezer on the bottom rack
so squeeze the lung like a potato sack!)
Shhh...
Scrape out the belly and put it in a glass!
Ditch it on the shoulder by the leg of the underpass!
Tie a yellow ribbon round the pelvic bone!
Freedom in a liter bottle, drink it on down!
Tighten up the screw that'll keep your head on!

(Jackie O, O lantern) I come to get you in my sleep
(Jackie O, O lantern) Or am I coming in my sleep?
(Jackie O, O lantern) I come to get me in my sleep
(Jackie O, O lantern) Or are you coming in your sleep?
I'm counting sheep

So didn't they ask you what was the matter?
Didn't they know your kind'll come with the weather?
Put a pan of water on the radiator
wire up the windpipe to a respirator,
roll the brain in salt and wrap the heart in paper!

(Jackie O, O lantern) I come to get you in your sleep
(Jackie O, O lantern) Or are you coming in my sleep?
(Jackie O, O lantern) Get me in your sleep
(Jackie O, O lantern) Or am I coming in your sleep?
(Jackie O, O lantern) I come to get you wound in a sheet.