Parade

Hooray for all your principles
Hooray for all your shade
Hooray for reprehensible
Hooray, I wish you'd stayed

Despite the dates and plans we made
The rules you broke and things you said
You've gone and left the bed unmade
I miss the way you'd rain on my parade

You're best when it's a festival
You're best when it's a race
You're best when you're the best of all
You left without a trace

You laughed at my missteps and stains
And talked about yourself again
And what you want and who you blame
If just once more you'd rain on my parade

Talk about worlds you've never seen
Talk about dreams you've never dreamed
Talk about words you've never screamed, no
Talk about who you need to be
Talk about what you mean to me, no

Of all the hungry mouths to feed
The loudest mouth was me
You left the royal family
You fucked the royal we

The worst of days you served and slayed
The toughest of the roughest trade
When wandering be not afraid
I miss the way you rain on my parade
Now that your final card's been played
You've left behind your cavalcade
When wandering be not afraid
I love the way, I love the way, I love the way
You rain on my parade