paroles de chanson Halloween Parade - Live at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, MD, 3/16/1989 - Lou Reed

This is a song about a parade, uh, they have every year they have down at the village around Halloween
A lot of people haven't been able to make it there lately, and
That's what this song's about, it's about AIDs, called the Halloween Parade

Well, there's a downtown fairy singing out Proud Mary
As she cruises Christopher Street
And some Southern Queen is acting loud and mean
Where the docks and the Badlands meet
This Halloween is something to be sure
Especially to be here without you

There's a Greta Garbo and an Alfred Hitchcock
And some black Jamaican stud
There's five Cinderellas and a leather drag
I almost fell into my mug
A Crawford, Davis, and a tacky Cary Grant
And some Homeboys lookin' for trouble down here from the Bronx

But there ain't no Harry and no Virgin Mary
You won't see those faces again
And Johnny Rio and Rotten Rita
You'll won't hear those voices again
The celebration somehow gets me down
Especially when I see that you're not around

There's the Born Again Losers and the Lavender Boozers
A crack team from Washington Heights
The boys from Avenue B, the girls from Avenue D
A Tinkerbell in tights
It's a different feeling that I have today, hey
Especially when I see that you've gone away

There's no Peter Pedantic saying things romantic
In Latin, Greek or Spic
There's no Three Bananas, no Brandy Alexander
Dishing all their tricks
The celebration somehow gets me down
Especially when I see you're not around

There's a girl from Soho with a t-shirt saying, "I Blow"
She's with The Jive Five, two plus three
And the girls for pay dates are giving cut rates
Or else they're doing it for free
The past keeps knock, knock, knocking on my door
And I don't want to hear it anymore

No consolations, please, babe, for feelin' funky
I got to get my head above my knees
'Cause it makes me sad, and sad makes me mad
And then I start to freeze
In the back of my mind, I was afraid it might be true
In the back of my mind, I was afraid that they meant you

At the Halloween Parade (Halloween parade)
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At the Halloween parade (wa wa ooh, Halloween parade)
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Wa wa ooh, Halloween parade
Wa wa ooh, Halloween parade
Wa wa ooh, Halloween parade
Wa wa ooh, Halloween parade
Wa wa ooh, Halloween parade
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