Ramshackle Day Parade

Muffle the drums.. and hope the new century comes…?
 Was it all the amphetamine presidents and their busy wives
 Or did Manhattan crumble the day Marilyn died?

 All your life you dreamed a dream
 Somehow connected with the silver screen
 With half closed eyes you realise
 It’s love in the life that is paradise
 In a technicolour fade - I dream a parade
 Like some flob house - bop house serenade
 Every dog must have his day

 Ramshackle day parade
 We’re going on through
 Ramshackle day parade

 This is the Ramshackle day parade
 Of all those lost, unborn and unmade
 And whose heads got filled with neon lava
 And remain buried under this road

 Ramshackle day parade
 Taking the freight elevator from the incinerators
 Come all the hopped up G-men riding refrigerated alligators
 Faces of the civil wars
 In holograms holding 44’s
 And after the deranged cowboys
 Bring out the banners of Stalingrad

 Bring out the banners of Stalingrad

 Here comes the marching band - The band of the underhand

 This is the Ramshackle day parade
 Ramshackle day parade