Big Parade
The Lumineers
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Lovely girl won't you stay, won't you stay, stay with me All my life I was blind, I was blind, now I see Lovely girl won't you stay, won't you stay, stay with me All my life I was blind, I was blind, now I see Fleet of black, fleet of black limousines Ah tinted machines, here comes the cavalcade With the armored cars, armored cars like Barettas Flags on antennae designed to keep me safe, keep me safe And oh my my, oh hey hey Here he comes, the candidate Blue eyed boy, United States Vote for him, the candidate Diamonds cut, diamonds cut for the karats Plaster of Paris, the floats fill up the street And the beauty queens, beauty queens with the white gloves All sick from the night clubs, they wave with pageantry, pageantry Oh my my oh hey hey Here it comes, the big parade Marching bands and barricades Make way, for the big parade Canvas covered, canvas covered in resin The violent men who dance the blood ballet And the bookies say, bookies say it's the third round Oh when Louie will go down, if he don't there's hell to pay, and hell to raise And oh my my oh hey hey Here he comes, the welterweight Take a dive, for goodness sake Or say goodbye to the welterweight Catholic priest, Catholic priest in a crisis Torn between romance and Jesus, who will win the civil war And he says I'm in love, I'm in love with a woman Yea this is my confession, I'm leaving, I can't a priest anymore, anymore And oh my my, oh hey hey There he goes, the man of faith Left the church for a fiancée Let him love, a man of faith T.V. cameras, t.v. cameras and stage hands American Bandstand, electric guitars And he's singin' songs, singin' songs for the lonely Well the girls with the room keys, They know all his words by heart, by heart and they all sing Lovely girl won't you stay, won't you stay, stay with me All my life I was blind, I was blind, now I see Lovely girl won't you stay, won't you stay, stay with me All my life I was blind, I was blind, now I see Lovely girl won't you stay, Oh oh oh oh Oh my my oh hey hey Here she comes by saving grace Burn the car and save the plates She's arrived, my saving grace
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Written by: Jeremy Fraites, Wesley Schultz
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