Ramshackle Day Parade Lyrics - Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros

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 

Were 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 44s 

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