it's a kind of parade it's a bucket brigade who got it off the wire that you'd set it and left just to cover the theft that would topple and empire but you wanted the world and it was only the heart... only the heart of a girl for everyone in the know he's going to put on a show death defying feats of daring and for the riff and the raff he's gonna mimeograph a statement he's preparing that he wanted the world and it was only a heart... only the heart of a girl here we are handing over all we know either that or start to blow 'til we've run out of breath it's a kind of parade it's a bucket brigade who read it off the wire that you lost your whole world and it was all over the heart of a girl only the heart of a girl here we are handing over all we know either that or start to blow 'til we've run out of breath