Skeletons on Parade

Lyrics

[Part I] Behind a curtain of towering pines The sun settling red A city hidden high in the hills Comes out to honor the dead Families somberly walk through the town They build altars and pray Clean the tombs and clutch rosaries And speak of better days From the edge of the island They ferry back to the shore They climb under their covers And pray a little more In this ancient city of stones They sigh and bow their heads The living seem rather, well... Dead! (Ohhhhhhh, yeah!) [Part II] The sun is down The earth shakes, the wind doth howl And I'm makin' moves all across the park We're stirring in the dark The caskets squeak The trees wheeze, the crypts all creak And toes sepulchered for months and months in dust Are wiggling off their crust, whoa Shed your shrouds Slip your fingertips through the ground Get those catacombs open, I'm hoping you'll join us Everybody come on out! Yeah! What a lovely, lovely night For a drink and a parade We'll dance until the morning light This town should be afraid What a lovely, lovely night For a drink and a parade We'll dance until the morning light This town should be afraid [Part III] Candied pumpkins, sweet egg bread We love rising from the dead Carpals, tarsals, vertabrae That's us clicking on parade! I move without any muscles My skull's a cavernous hall Tendons are made for pulling, my friend I don't need them at all! Mescal in our mandibles And porridge in our ribs Their prospects are looking quite grim Board the mariposas now! Set sail for the quivering light ahead We're descending on the town The living we're scaring, nightmaring in fright They've waited forever to bring us together: We finally wake them up tonight! [Part IV] (Yock dehay!) Yock dehay de yockity hum The devil is happy to say "Heaven is having a hell of a time" Skeletons on parade! Yock dehay de yockity hum The devil is happy to say "Heaven is having a hell of a time" Skeletons on parade! Flee the mausolea Fly sarcophagi Pandemon in the plaza Tiba-fibia-fie! You ligamentary lifers Your fractured foolish plight Pluck yourself from your gravesite! Yock dehay de yockity hum Heaven is having a hell of a time Skeletons on parade! Yock dehay de yockity hum Heaven is having a hell of a time Skeletons on parade! Yock dehay de yock (Hey!) The devil is happy to say (Ho!) Yock dehay de yock (Hey!) No one gets away (No!) Yock dehay de yock (Hey!) The devil is happy to say (Ho!) "Heaven is having a hell of a time" Skeletons on parade! [Outro] Goodnight all my children now you must lay down your heads You wouldn't want the sun to catch you missing from your beds