Uploaded December 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Hall & Oates - Screaming Through December (War Babies, 1974)


What a crew we made up there was Faustus
Burnt out from playing too many bars, on the Jersey shore
And Sammy, almost bald from ironing her hair too much
back in '64
And me and Phazon out of phase, least my temporary
name for the day

All blown away and screaming
All blown away and screaming
All blown away and Screaming

Thru' December

We crossed state lines we was burning
Although the cold could freeze your hand, to the steel
of the wheel
Miami, just a cold hearted word
From a warm smiling man
on a sign in a field
we laughed just to take up the time my (hmmm) job
was staring to dry,
and we went Screaming....

"Quasar, Quasar", where the first words I heard from Faustus
all day
And giggling he apologized and then returned to flicking
his flame
I sighed bleary-eyed, and tried to remember the way,
as we went Screaming

A year does go by what a difference,
twelve months can make when you're living a
hundred years in one
And Sammy,
she went home
and now she's living in a room with a gun

Faustus ate glass for an appetizer,
and bled all over his synthesizer

As he went Screaming
As he went Screaming
As he went Screaming Thru' December..............................

Daryl Hall - vocals, synthesizer, guitar, mandolin, vibraphone
John Oates - vocals, synthesizer, guitar
Todd Rundgren - guitar, background vocals
Richie Cerniglia - guitar
"Admiral Television" - guitar
Don York - arranger, Arp string ensemble
Tommy Mottola - synthesizer
John Siegler - bass
Jon Wilcox - drums
Sandy Allen - background vocals
Gail Boggs - background vocals