Lamplighter`s Parade

<br>We`re standing around<br>at the New Year`s Eve party<br>with the bridegroom, oh<br>and we climb down the stairs<br>where the actress is working<br>the bedroom, ah<br>and it`s a way of saying <br><br>Chorus:<br>I`m coming down with a disease<br>of too much wasting<br>for one to fix <br><br>It`s the purpose of the world<br>you would never know it<br>sometimes, now sometimes <br><br>Don`t I make like it`s easy<br>to laugh in your face<br>though I praise you for knowing<br>how it`s one thing to bitch<br>you`re so sick of this place<br>it`s quite another to be good<br>another way of saying <br><br>Repeat chorus. <br><br>It`s the purpose of the world<br>but you would never know it<br>sometimes, now sometimes<br>(oooohhhh ahhhh)<br>and you think we`ve got it now<br>oh you think we`ve got it now<br>the world`s reach<br>and the ordinary world<br>do you think we`ve got it now?