Template:London's Brilliant Parade

Outside my window

Not long before sleep arrives

They come with their sirens

And they sweep away all the boys

Busy draining the joy from their lives

They never said their prayers out loud

And while I'm dreaming
 There's a passing motor car
 That broadcasts a popular song
 And a girl appears to be saying
 "Do you think that I'm going to go far?"

(Chorus:)

Just look at me
 I'm having the time of my life
 Or something quite like it
 When I'm walking out and about
 In London's brilliant parade

She's one of those girls that you just can't place
 You feel guilty desiring such an innocent face
 But of course they knew that when they cast her
 Along with the red Routemaster
 And the film takes place in an MGB
 And a perfect re-creation of "The Speakeasy"
 Everybody looks happy and twisted
 Though she probably never existed
 For old times' sake
 Don't let me awake

I wouldn't want you to walk across Hungerford Bridge
 Especially at twilight
 Looking through the bolts and the girders
 Into the water below
 You'll never find your answer there

They sounded the "all-clear" in the occidental bazaar
 They used to call Oxford Street
 Now the bankrupt souls in the city
 Are finally tasting defeat

Don't look at me
 I'm having the time of my life
 Or something quite like it
 When I'm walking out and about
 In London's brilliant parade
 When I'm walking out and about
 In London's brilliant parade

From the gates of St. Mary's

There were horses in Olympia
 And a trolley bus in Fulham Broadway
 The lions and the tigers in Regent's Park
 Couldn't pay their way
 And now they're not the only ones

At the Hammersmith Palais
 In Kensington and Camden Town
 There's a part that I used to play
 The lovely Diorama is really part of the drama, I'd say

(Repeat Chorus Twice)