By the bumper cars 

In the pretty twining light 

I may have gone too far 

I may have gone too much, too long 

I'm a dull and witless boy 



At the after bars 

Think I was sullied by a dream 

In the killing jar 

You and me at war, at arms 

All falling in embrace 



Tell me why you lied 

And what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny 



A tawny gypsy girl 

Sleeping blanketed by stars 

Beneath the tilt-a-whirl 

Where we were coyly caught alone 

All fumbling with your blouse 



Tell me why you lied 

And what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny 



And in the rollercoaster din 

By the parachutes in saddle shoes 

You break your shins 

But I have never seen two eyes so shiny 



And the sullen beery swine 

Who try to tangle you 

In sullen beery balls of twine 

Have they ever seen two eyes so shiny? 



Boys in denim vests 

Smoking cigarettes between 

The bootblack fingertips 

Sweetly tipsy by the half light 

The light and the half light 



Tell me why you lied 

And what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny