london's brilliant parade

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outside my window, not long before sleep arrives, they come with their sirens, and they sweep away all the boys, busy draining the joy from their lives, they never said their prayers out loud, and while i'm dreaming, there's a passing motor car, that broadcasts a popular song, and a girl appears to be saying, "do you think that i'm going to go far?", just look at me, i'm having the time of my life, or something quite like it, when i'm walking out and about, in london's brilliant parade, she's one of those girls that you just can't place, you feel guilty desiring such an innocent face, but of course they knew that when they cast her, along with the red routemaster, and the film takes place in an mgb, and a perfect re-creation of "the speakeasy", everybody looks happy and twisted, though she probably never existed, for old times' sake, don't let me awake, i wouldn't want you to walk across hungerford bridge, especially at twilight, looking through the bolts and the girders, into the water below, you'll never find your answer there, they sounded the "all-clear" in the occidental bazaar, they used to call oxford street, now the bankrupt souls in the city, are finally tasting defeat, don't look at me, i'm having the time of my life, or something quite like it, when i'm walking out and about, in london's brilliant parade, when i'm walking out and about, in london's brilliant parade, from the gates of st. mary's, there were horses in olympia, and a trolley bus in fulham broadway, the lions and the tigers in regents park, couldn't pay their way, and now they're not the only ones, at the hammersmith palais, in kensington and camden town, there's a part that i used to play;, the lovely diorama is really part of the drama, i'd say,