By the bumper cars
In the pretty twining light
I may have gone too far

I may have gone too much, too long
I'm a dull and witless boy


At the after bars
Think I was sullied by a dream
In the killing jar

You and me at war, at arms
All falling in embrace


Tell me why you lied
And what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny


A tawny gypsy girl
Sleeping blanketed by stars
Beneath the tilt-a-whirl

Where we were coyly caught alone
All fumbling with your blouse


Tell me why you lied
And what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny


And in the rollercoaster din
By the parachutes in saddle shoes
You break your shins

But I have never seen two eyes so shiny

And the sullen beery swine

Who try to tangle you
In sullen beery balls of twine
Have they ever seen two eyes so shiny?


Boys in denim vests
Smoking cigarettes between

The bootblack fingertips
Sweetly tipsy by the half light
The light and the half light


Tell me why you lied
And what it is you do to keep your eyes all shiny