sentences:  The song was inspired by a jack o'lantern Partridge had carved and placed on a fence post in his garden for Halloween.Afterward, Partridge walked past the pumpkin each day on the way to his composing shed and, feeling sorry for the increasingly decaying fruity head, decided to write a song about him.He said that he began thinking about "what would happen if there was somebody on Earth who was kind of perfect ... God, they'd make so many enemies!"