Lamplighter's Parade lyrics

We're standing around

At the New Year's Eve party

With the bridegroom, oh

And we climb down the stairs

Where the actress is working

The bedroom, ah

And it's a way of saying

I'm coming down with a disease

Of too much wasting

For one to fix

It's the purpose of the world

You would never know it

Sometimes, now sometimes

Don't I make

Don't I make like it's easy

To laugh in your face

Though I praise you for knowing

How it's one thing to bitch

You're so sick of this place

It's quite another to be good

Another way of saying

It's the purpose of the world

But you would never know it

Sometimes, now sometimes

(Ooh ah)

And you think we've got it now

Oh you think we've got it now

The world's reach

And the ordinary world

Do you think we've got it now?