All the King's Horses
Oh the bandstand is flooded -
Is flooded with rain
And the saints that came marching
In Jesus' name
Find their bugles and buckles
All rusted away
They will not be salvaged
For one last crusade
In this city of sinners
The children today
Grow up chemically vicious
With sex on the brain
And their babies have babies
So fat and so angry
We feed them and feed them
And still they are hungry
And all the King's horses
And all the King's men
Couldn't put our love together again
Once you gave me the moon
I was after the sun
That's the way it was always
And will be Amen
When I first saw you
At the Easter Parade
I knew from the start
How I'd whisper your name
How we'd wander the city
And dance in the lanes
And kiss by the lamplight
To 'Lily Marlene'
Now this city's for wasters
The coming-of-age
And hard-wired and dead-eyed
With cash and cocaine
But Jerusalem's coming
It's just round the corner
A holy man told me
Though what does it matter when...
All the King's horses
And all the King's men
Couldn't put our love together again
Once you gave me the moon
I was after the sun
That's the way it was always
And will be Amen