The Old Parade

[Verse 1]
So I wept as I sat there drinking
The church bells ringing
The rain was singing in a way

[Verse 2]
Then I crept down those streets of sorrow
With pain I'd borrowed
From a writer playing games with his heart

[Chorus]
Alone in the dark
The times we would dance
To a jukebox left stranded outside the old parade
Those times they don't last
In a torn photograph
Your memory will live on the walls of the old parade

[Verse 3]
Then I saw your ghost-like figure
In the bathroom mirror
The kids doing lines in the back

[Verse 4]
By the door
With a pint of bitter
This nervous singer
Sings lines that take me away

[Chorus]
Alone in the dark
The times we would dance
To a jukebox left stranded outside the old parade
Those times they don't last
In a torn photograph
Your memory will live on the walls of the old parade