My favorite holiday? Halloween, hands down. Slight autumn chill, black cats, candy, creepy movies, slutty costumes, zombie pub crawls, awesome parties and no compulsion to do anything nice for anyone else. Dear Valentines Day: stop telling me what to do. If I want to buy a gift or plan a date, rest assured, I will.

Now I'm not saying I don't believe in love. But how can you mark something like love on a calendar? True love has no border, to timeline, no end. Sometimes it even extends beyond the grave. In a nauseating attempt to combine both Halloween and Valentine's Day, here are some of the best songs that blur the thin line between love and death.

Tom Waits - Green Grass


A chilling missive sung from six feet under. Tom Waits sings in his creepiest baritone about how the lover he left behind will never escape his memory. Lay your head where my heart used to be / on the earth above me / lay down on the green grass / remember when you loved me.


Jimmy Cross - I Want my Baby Back


A deplorable parody of the 1960's "teen death" songs (Leader of the Pack, Dead Man's Curve, Last Kiss). Most of the song is a narration about how his girlfriend meets her end in a horrible car crash with a motorcycle gang. But the singer can't seem to move on without her, so he does the reasonable thing and digs  up her body. Final chorus? I've got my baby back! sung from inside her coffin.

The Decemberists - Eli the Barrow Boy


Eli the Barrow Boy, dressed in corduroy, drowns himself in a river because he can't stand to be without his true love whom he cannot wed....because she is dead. However, when the full moon is out, his ghost still paces around the graveyard attempting to raise the money for a fancy gown which will surely win her heart. Would I could afford to buy my love a fine gown / made of gold and silk Arabian thread / but I am dead and gone and lying in a churchyard / and I must push my barrow all the day.


Timber Timbre - Lay Down in the Tall Grass


This one has a happy ending! Kinda. You dug me out of a shallow grave / with your swiss army knife / only you could revive me / so badly decomposed / I was bone white, dry and scaly / but you still took me home. Wow, the necrophilia vibe is strong on this list. Gross.

Nekromantix - Horny in a Hearse


So your girlfriend got sick of you, packed her bags and left? Solution: buy a hearse. Chicks dig hearses. No doubt, there is plenty of room in the back for.... you know.... She wanna go for a ride / all the time / my ghoulfriend gets horny in a hearse.


Johnny Cash - Delia's Gone


This one does not have a happy ending. Big John decides to tie his cheating lover to a chair and shoot her twice, ending her deceitful ways. However, his prison sentence doesn't save him from the wrathful haunting by Delia's ghost.... But jailer, oh jailer! / jailer I can't sleep / 'cause all around my bedside / I hear the patter of Delia's feet.


So if you have no desire to get laid tonight, make a playlist of these songs and give them to your sweetheart. She'll get goosebumps, but not the good kind.