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 Oh tinted machines, here comes the cavalcade With the armored cars, armored cars like Barettas 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 And oh my my, oh hey hey Here it comes, the big parade Marching bands and barricades Make way, for the big parade Oh Canvas covered, canvas covered in resin Violent men dance the blood ballet And the bookies say, bookies say it's the third round Oh when Louie will go down If he don't there's hell to pay, hell to raise And oh my my, oh hey hey Here he comes, the welterweight Take a dive, for goodness sake Did you say goodbye to the welterweight? Catholic priest, Catholic priest in a crisis 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 Yeah, this is my confession, I'm leaving, I can't be a priest anymore, anymore And oh my my, oh hey hey There he goes, the man of faith Left the church for a fiancé Let him love, a man of faith Oh TV cameras, TV cameras, and stagehands American Bandstand, electric guitars And he's singin' songs, singin' songs for the lonely Well 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 my my, oh hey hey Here she comes by saving grace Burn the car and save the plates She's arrived, my saving grace