People's Parties

All the people at this party
 They've got a lot of style
 They've got stamps of many countries
 They've got passport smiles
 Some are friendly
 Some are cutting
 Some are watching it from the wings
 Some are standing in the centre
 Giving to get something
 Photo beauty gets attention
 Then her eye paint's running down
 She's got a rose in her teeth
 And a lampshade crown
 One minute she's so happy
 Then she's crying on someone's knee
 Saying laughing and crying
 You know it's the same release
 I told you when I met you
 I was crazy
 Cry for us all beauty
 Cry for Eddie in the corner
 Thinking he's nobody
 And Jack behind his joker
 And stone-cold Grace behind her fan
 And me in my frightened silence
 Thinking I don't understand
 I feel like I'm sleeping
 Can you wake me
 You seem to have a broader sensibility
 I'm just living on nerves and feelings
 With a weak and a lazy mind
 And coming to peoples parties
 Fumbling deaf dumb and blind
 I wish I had more sense of humor
 Keeping the sadness at bay
 Throwing the lightness on these things
 Laughing it all away
 Laughing it alI away
 Laughing it all away