Ramshackle Day Parade

Muffle the drums Behold, 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 dreamed a dream Somehow connected with the silver screen With half closed eyes you realize Love in the life, that is paradise In a technicolour fade, I dream a parade Like some flophouse, bop house serenade Every dog must have his day Ramshackle Day Parade Were 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, this road Ramshackle Day Parade Taking the freight elevator From the incinerators Come all hopped up G-men riding Refrigerated alligators Faces of the civil wars In holograms holding 44s 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