Parade - Imperial Teen

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