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Your Wonderful Parade Lyrics
Your wonderful parade
Moving thru the towns that rise and then they fade
Over streets that pass the houses where you've stayed
Your wonderful parade
Your daily masquerade
Paper masks behind this face that you have made
Crumble down upon foundation that you've laid
Your daily masquerade
(*) Stand in line try to climb
Meet your wife at cocktail time
Surely you should try and choose a better way to fall
Your marvelous charade
Never could be worth the prices that you've paid
Blindness is a part of every game you've played
Your marvelous charade
Repeat (*)
Your daily masquerade
Your wonderful parade
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I think this song is about the state of the United States at the time - with the Vietnam war going on it's not hard to believe that Richard at the time felt that what was going on was wrong.
The song itself talks about the parade as being how the US government hid over it's wrongdoings and masqueraded as something friendly. Certainly an odd piece for a Carpenters song and most likely the only song that was written with a presumed 'political' background behind it.