User blog:Zoopmech-134/Jack's Lament (The Nightmare Before Christmas)

"Jack's Lament" is a song from The Nightmare Before Christmas. It is the second song in the film and the first to be sung by Jack Skellington. Played only mere minutes after the opening song, "This Is Halloween", Jack sings the song after sneaking away from town to a graveyard to gain some privacy.

The song is an "I want" song that Jack uses to assess his thoughts regarding how his immense fame and reputation as the Pumpkin King have become boring due to him repeating the same routine every year and how he longs for something new to change his life.

English
Performed by Danny Elfman

For my talents are renowned far and wide When it comes to surprises in the moonlit night I excel without ever even trying With the slightest little effort of my ghostlike charms I have seen grown men give out a shriek With a wave of my hand and a well-placed moan I have swept the very bravest off their feet
 * -|Lyrics=There are few who deny, at what I do I am the best

Yet year after year, it's the same routine And I grow so weary of the sound of screams And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King, Have grown so tired of the same old thing

Oh, somewhere deep inside of these bones An emptiness began to grow There's something out there, far from my home A longing that I've never known

I'm a master of fright and a demon of light And I'll scare you right out of your pants To a guy in Kentucky, I'm Mr. Unlucky And I'm known throughout England and France And since I am dead, I can take off my head To recite Shakespearean quotations No animal nor man can scream like I can With the fury of my recitations

But who here would ever understand That the Pumpkin King with the skeleton grin Would tire of his crown? If they only understood... He'd give it all up if he only could

Oh, there's an empty place in my bones That calls out for something unknown The fame and praise, come year after year Does nothing for these empty tears

Arabic (Standard)
Performed by Amr Yehia/عمرو يحيى

Cantonese
Performed by Leung Ho Cheung/梁皓翔

Dutch
Performed by Florus van Rooijen

French (France)
Performed by Olivier Constantin

German
Performed by Alexander Goebel

Greek
Performed by Konstantínos Staurídis/Κωνσταντίνος Σταυρίδης

Italian
Performed by Renato Zero

Japanese
Performed by Masachika Ichimura/市村正親

Korean
Performed by Nam Gyeong-ju/남경주

Malay
Performed by Addy Jamil

Mandarin (China)
Performed by Wang Han/王涵

Avazheh
Performed by Ashkan Sadeghi/اشکان صادقی

Polish
Performed by Wojciech Paszkowski

1993
Performed by Nelson Machado

2003
Performed by Marcelo Coutinho

2012
Performed by Marcelo Coutinho

Portuguese (Portugal)
Performed by Pedro Bargado

Dub
Performed by Aleksey Kortnev/Алексей Кортнев

Slovak
Performed by Ján Gallovič

Spanish (Latin America)
Performed by Sergio Saldívar

Spanish (Spain)
Perfomed by Tony Cruz

Missing versions

 * The song was left undubbed in the Catalan, Czech, Hungarian, Indonesian and Turkish dubs.