Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Ramshackle Day Parade lyrics

rate me

Muffle the drums.. and hope the new century comes?

Was it all the amphetamine presidents and their busy wives

Or did Manhattan crumble the day Maryland died?

All your life you dreamed a dream

Somehow connected with the silver screen

With half closed eyes you realise

It's 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 the road

Ramshackle day parade

Taking the freight elevator from the incinerators

Come all the hopped up G-men riding refrigerated alligators

All the faces of the civil wars

In holograms holding Colt 44's

And 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