All the people at this party
They've got a lot of style
They've got stamps of many countries

They've got passport smiles
Some are friendly
Some are cutting

Some are watching it from the wings
Some are standing in the centre
Giving to get something


Photo Beauty gets attention
Then her eye paint's running down

She's got a rose in her teeth
And a lampshade crown
One minute she's so happy

Then she's crying on someone's knee
Saying laughing and crying
You know it's the same release


I told you when I met you
I was crazy

Cry for us all Beauty
Cry for Eddie in the corner
Thinking he's nobody

And Jack behind his joker
And stone-cold Grace behind her fan
And me in my frightened silence

Thinking I don't understand

I feel like I'm sleeping

Can you wake me
You seem to have a broader sensibility
I'm just living on nerves and feelings

With a weak and a lazy mind
And coming to peoples parties
Fumbling deaf dumb and blind


I wish I had more sense ot humor
Keeping the sadness at bay

Throwing the lightness on these things
Laughing it all away
Laughing it alI away

Laughing it all away