Paper Mache

Twenty houses in a row

Eighty people watch a TV show

Paper people, cardboard dreams

How unreal the whole thing seems

Can we be living in a world made of paper maché?

Everything is clean and so neat

Anything that's wrong can be just swept away

Spray it with cologne and the whole world smells sweet

Ice cream cones and candy bars

Swings and things like bicycles and cars

There's a sale on happiness

You buy two and it costs less

Can we be living in a world made of paper maché?

Everything is clean and so neat

Anything that's wrong can be just swept away

Spray it with cologne and the whole world smells sweet

Read the papers, keep aware

While you're lounging in your leather chair

And if things don't look so good

Shake your head and knock on wood

Can we be living in a world made of paper maché?

Everything is clean and so neat

Anything that's wrong can be just swept away

Spray it with cologne and the whole world smells sweet

Like paper maché