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

Its 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

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 road



Ramshackle day parade

Taking the freight elevator from the incinerators

Come all the hopped up Gmen riding refrigerated alligators

Faces of the civil wars

In holograms holding 44s

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