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The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging Lyrics
"It's the last great adventure left to mankind"
- Screams a drooping lady
offering her dreamdolls at less than extortionate prices,
and as the notes and coins are taken out
I'm taken in, to the factory floor.
for the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
- All ready to use
the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
- I just need a fuse.
Got people stocked in every shade,
Must be doing well with trade.
Stamped, addressed, in odd fatality.
That evens out their personality.
With profit potential marked by a sign,
I can recognise some of the production line,
No bite at all in labour bondage,
Just wrinkled wrappers or human bandage.
Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
- All ready to use
it's the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
- I just need a fuse.
The hall runs like clockwork
Their hands mark out the time;
Empty in their fullness
Like a frozen pantomime.
Everyone's a sales representative
Wearing slogans in their shrine.
Dishing out failsafe superlative,
Brother John is No. 9.
it's the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
- All ready to use
it's the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
- I just need a fuse.
The decor on the ceiling
has planned out their future day
I see no sign of free will,
so I guess I have to pay,
pay my way,
for the Grand Parade...
it's the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
- All ready to use
it's the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
- I just need a fuse.
- Screams a drooping lady
offering her dreamdolls at less than extortionate prices,
and as the notes and coins are taken out
I'm taken in, to the factory floor.
- All ready to use
the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
- I just need a fuse.
Must be doing well with trade.
Stamped, addressed, in odd fatality.
That evens out their personality.
With profit potential marked by a sign,
I can recognise some of the production line,
No bite at all in labour bondage,
Just wrinkled wrappers or human bandage.
- All ready to use
it's the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
- I just need a fuse.
Their hands mark out the time;
Empty in their fullness
Like a frozen pantomime.
Everyone's a sales representative
Wearing slogans in their shrine.
Dishing out failsafe superlative,
Brother John is No. 9.
- All ready to use
it's the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
- I just need a fuse.
has planned out their future day
I see no sign of free will,
so I guess I have to pay,
pay my way,
for the Grand Parade...
it's the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
- All ready to use
it's the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
- I just need a fuse.
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We love this song. It was true in 1974 and true today. Essentially, it is a comment on how creativity has become compromised by cookie-cutter products that people blindly buy (empty in their fullness) because someone told them to through tricky adverts( dishing out failsafe superlatives).
Also, I think there is a sneaky little parallel to John Lennon here. In the story, John is Rael's brother who happens to be a real jerk. By 74, this sentiment was strongly felt by many toward John for either leaving the beatles for Yoko or for disappearing pretty much all together. And lest we all forget John's admitted obsession with the number 9...
@pshow99 Officer Frankle ono wich . ha ha . subversive humour , or just my over active imagination ?
@pshow99 Officer Frankle ono wich . ha ha . subversive humour , or just my over active imagination ?
this song was co-written by brian eno...