Big Parade

Lovely girl won't you stay, won't you stay, stay with me All my life I was blind, I was blind, now I see Lovely girl won't you stay, won't you stay, stay with me All my life I was blind, I was blind, now I see Fleet of black, fleet of black limousines All tinted machines Here comes the cavalcade With the armoured cars, armoured cars like birettas Flags on antennas Designed to keep me safe, keep me safe And oh my, my oh hey, hey Here he comes, the candidate Blue-eyed boy, United States Vote for him, the candidate Diamonds cut Diamonds cut for the carats Plaster of Paris The floats fill up the street And the beauty queens, beauty queens with the white gloves All sick from the nightclubs They wave with pageantry, pageantry Oh, my, my oh hey, hey Here it comes, the big parade Marching bands and barricades Make way, for the big parade Canvas covered, canvas covered in resin The violent men who dance the blood ballet And the bookies say, bookies say it's the 3rd round Oh, when Louie will go down If he don't there's hell to pay, and hell to raise And oh my, my oh hey, hey Here he comes, the welterweight Take a dive, for goodness' sake Or say goodbye to the welterweight Catholic priest, catholic priest in a crisis He's torn between romance and Jesus Who will win the civil war And he says I'm in love, I'm in love with a woman Yea this is my confession, I'm leaving I can't a priest any more, any more And oh my, my oh hey, hey There he goes, the man of faith Left the church for a fiancé Let him love, the man of faith TV cameras, TV cameras and stagehands American bandstand, electric guitars And he's singing songs, singing songs for the lonely All the girls with the room keys They know all his words by heart, by heart (and they all sing) Lovely girl won't you stay, won't you stay, stay with me All my life I was blind, I was blind, now I see Lovely girl won't you stay, won't you stay, stay with me All my life I was blind, I was blind, now I see Lovely girl won't you stay, oh, oh oh, oh Oh, my, my oh hey, hey Here she comes by saving grace Burn the car and save the plates She's arrived, my saving grace