Cold Parade by Stew
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D                          C              G 
I'm a man of alleyways and misty parks at night
        D
Call me Simms
D                                      C
You might've seen me strolling Central Park
           G             D
Or lurking south of the Thames
Bm                                         F#m
I'm terribly familiar in a quite forgetful way
G                       C
A face you swear you've seen before
     G                  C
But where you cannot say
D
Don't bother it's alright
         C          G              D
Come and join me in tonight's cold parade
D
Though I'm a harmless fellow
          C                  G             D
I've been known to scare the hell out of a dame
D
On an empty sidestreet
          C                G            D
Where the wind and she and I meet for a game
Bm                                F#m
She sees me and assumes i'm up to no good and it's true
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But the only no good I'm up to is not knowing what to do
D
With this thing called my life
       C                G             D
So I'm sentenced to the night's cold parade
D
Well 'what sort of parade?' you ask
     C              D          G
Well don't expect a float or a band
D                            C             G
A broken majorette may bum a cigarette and offer
        D
You her hand
Bm                                F#m
Yeah it's not exactly pretty this collection of the lost
G                      C
You've heard about the nitty gritty
G                        C
Well here's how much it cost
D
It's gonna be bumpy alright
         C          G              D
Come and join me in tonight's cold parade
D                                   C
Now i've got an odd relationship to life
            G          D
And on that life and I agree
D
I'm a charming party guest
C              G        D
But i also get bored so easily
D                              C
Now if i had me a dirty little vocation
    G            D 
I'd feel more at home
D                             C
See i only walk these streets because
   G                             D
My thoughts and I cannot be left alone
Bm                            
See the crossword puzzles and playoff games 
    F#m
and porno sites galore
G                 C
Cannot contain or ease the pain
     G            C
They don;'t work anymore
Bm
See by day i am a pillar
       F#m
But by night i tend to sway
G                  C
What happens after work
G                      C
Well it's too gruesome Lord to say
Bm        
See by day i am a pillar
       F#m
But by night i tend to roar
G                           C             G             C
but nothing compares to the music of your knock upon my door
D
It's lonely here inside
         C          G              D
Come and join me in tonight's cold parade
D
It's lonely here inside
          C         G              D
Come and join me in tonight's cold parade