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 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, 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 44's
 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