Parade of Lost Dreams - Roger McGuinn

Hollywood Boulevard parade of lost dreams

Is there no modesty in Sodom?

Sipping Perrier and checking out the scene

Inches away from the bottom

Expensive foreign cars and fancy limousines

Can the people live without 'em?

Swimming in a fishbowl with their tabloid magazines

They say they love it, but I doubt 'em

We’re watching the parade of lost dreams

We’re watching the parade of lost dreams

Thousand dollar tables at the black tie dinner show

What’s that got to do with music?

Fame’s a fleeting vapor and the only thing they know

They know they’re going to lose it

They started out in Shakespeare and ended up in soap

When did the money start to matter?

Better is a poor man happy in his hope

Than the world on a platter

We’re watching the parade of lost dreams

We’re watching the parade of lost dreams

Graduated law school and got into the race

When did justice turn to power?

Now he’s hosting lobbyists and all that they embrace

This could be his final hour

Debauchery and murder and every kind of crime

Are they hidden in the closet?

They don’t know the love of money is the evil of all time

So they make their big deposit

We’re watching the parade of lost dreams

We’re watching the parade of lost dreams (X2)