Life's Sad Parade - The Black Sorrows

This town’s a sea of stories you’ll never undestand

The world’s a tiny circus in the palm of his hand

Friend you would have loved it when they ran out of red

Cyclone Willy finally raised the dead

Fat moon cloaked in a shark skin suit

Kelly fired some blanks at the deputy’s boot

Couldn’t geet close enough to flick the big switch

Her kerosene blue eyes never even twitched

There’s a new heart h=aching on the factory line

That dfiamond on her finger is refusing to shine

Crazy spent lovers and a vampire kiss

Hell it doesnt come much better than this

Grim faced Eddy still working the room

They call it the equator, it’s as cold as a tomb

Brace yourself tiger you might want to sit down

Your raven haired beauty ran off with some clown

Swore she’ll get some use out of that bridal gown

Life’s sad parade

This room’s a sea of stories

You’ll never understand

The globe’s a tiny surface in the palm of his hand

Man you should of been there the crew hit the wall

Rockethead and Shakie slowed down to a crawl

There’s another heart breaking on the cannery row

The carbon on her finger never threatened to glow

She blew her last buck on a voodoo hex

Then someone snatched that doll and personal effects

You know a smile costs you nothing in this sick pantomime

You recollect that Dutch was on deck at the time

Howlin' at the captain I was dying of thirst

I tried to reach Jesus but the ship is cursed

And when the crate is sinking

I’m diving in first

(J. Camilleri N. Smith — Mushroom Music Publishing Warner Chappell)