No More Parades

(album: Straightaways - 1997)

Don't know if your caring
Truth is worth tearing
Though we're miles apart

Front door leaving
Is the way I've been feeling
Twenty days overboard

That's the way the hinge turns, just half way 'round
Believe it all first, finally flickers out
No mood anymore, hold up, hammer down the stake
No more parades

Got to know a friend
With a think tank and a farm
And you couldn't ask for better

Works on dreams
Inside of her schemes
Lives like the words in a song

That's the way the hinge turns, just half way around
Believe it all first, finally flickers out
No mood anymore, hold up, hammer down the stake
No more parades

A pesticide moon hangs
Cold coffee and tears
Flowing out of the brain

Shoulda caught the bus
Shoulda pulled in line
Shoulda made up for that down time

That's the way the hinge turns, just half way around
Believe it all first, finally flickers out
No mood anymore, hold up, hammer down the stake
No more parades