A day of rest is hardly ever A day at rest's a callow sigh A day at rest is hardly ever Hardly ever sealed in time Follies raged at night Who's denied? The furs and feathers Orchids shine on Pa**er's by Then a railway is laid And the horses are well fed There's a lust for a uniform And a grand parade The summer guns mark how they lost the belle epoque The railway stays the one way sound of shots A gilded age is hardly ever Aware of where it's follies are A gilded age has hardly ever Not embrace it's tragic flaw Children sleep safely at night Sweet pronounced
The park is full The trees in bloom Bellies full And hearts alive The summer guns mark how they lost the belle epoque The railway stays the one way sound of shots They dug a trench then discovered how to fill it The bread goes bad faster than a spare bullet They discovered, discovered how to fill it Faster than a spare bullet A palace untested decay A heart at rest is merely fallow No, this heart is simply asking To be acquitted from the gallows The summer guns mark how they lost the belle epoque The railway stays the one way sound of shots (x2)