Halloween (Dave Matthews Band song)

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"Halloween"

Song by Dave Matthews Band
from the album Before These Crowded Streets
Released	April 28, 1998
Recorded	The Plant Studios, Sausalito, CA & Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY
Genre	Rock
Length	5:07
Label	RCA
Writer(s)	David J. Matthews
Composer(s)	Dave Matthews Band
Producer(s)	Steve Lillywhite
Before These Crowded Streets track listing
Stay (Wasting Time) (5)	"Halloween" (6)	The Stone (7
Recently track listing
"All Along the Watchtower" (Track 4)	"Halloween" (Track 5)	End of Album)

"Halloween" is a song by Dave Matthews Band from the 1998 album Before These Crowded Streets. The song was originally released as a live track on their EP Recently in 1992. "Halloween" was the only song frequently played live by the band before its LP album release. The song debuted live on Halloween of 1992 (10/31/1992) and was originally titled, "The Halloween Song." This song was written by Dave Matthews about the hatred towards an ex-girlfriend of his who turned down his proposal of marriage three times.

"Halloween" is the only track on Before These Crowded Streets not to have lyrics included in the CD cover. Additionally, live versions of this song feature Matthews singing different and sometimes nonsensical lyrics that do not correspond with the studio version. Matthews claimed that he chose not to include the lyrics in the cover because he did not want his mother reading the offensive words. However, the song was copyrighted with the lyrics "Love... love... love..."

The track on Before These Crowded Streets features orchestral arrangements by John D'earth with D'earth on the trumpet and The Kronos Quartet on strings, and segues directly into the following track, "The Stone."