Every album needs a front door, and this is mine. Halloween Night Trick-or-Treat is the opener, and I wrote it to feel like the first minute of a movie. Half past three, the knives come out, the pumpkin guts fly, and the whole family is counting down to sunset.
Here is what I was chasing. That specific childhood feeling of the afternoon before trick-or-treating, when you cannot sit still, you are scarfing dinner, your costume is waiting by the door, and the sun will not go down fast enough. Kids scarfing dinner because they cannot wait. Porch lights glowing left and right. The whole neighborhood turning into something magic for one night. There is even a shoutout in the chorus to the houses that give out the full-size candy bars, because every kid alive keeps a mental map of which house is the good one.
I want to be honest about why a song this simple matters to me. When most families think of a happy, singable Halloween song for little kids, they still reach back to something from 1962. There is almost nothing new in that lane. I wanted to write the modern version, a bright family pop song about the joy of trick-or-treating that a five year old in 2026 can call their own. Not a spooky song, a happy one. Halloween deserves its own I-cannot-wait anthem, the way Christmas has a hundred of them.
A little behind-the-scenes note. This song started life under a different title, The Best Part of Halloween. When I was sequencing the album it became obvious this was the opener, and the opener should say exactly what it is. Halloween Night Trick-or-Treat tells you the whole promise of the record in four words, so I renamed it and put it first.
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