Lamplighter's Parade Lyrics

We're standing aroundat the New Year's Eve partywith the bridegroom, ohand we climb down the stairswhere the actress is workingthe bedroom, ahand it's a way of saying Chorus:I'm coming down with a diseaseof too much wastingfor one to fix It's the purpose of the worldyou would never know itsometimes, now sometimes Don't I make like it's easyto laugh in your facethough I praise you for knowinghow it's one thing to bitchyou're so sick of this placeit's quite another to be goodanother way of saying Repeat chorus. It's the purpose of the worldbut you would never know itsometimes, now sometimes(oooohhhh ahhhh)and you think we've got it nowoh you think we've got it nowthe world's reachand the ordinary worlddo you think we've got it now?