Lyrics of Parades Go By - The Magnetic Fields

I'll linger here your ring upon my finger dear
and sing till dawn a song of you and me and what and why
for time is all I have to keep between these walls
and half asleep the days go by
a million little nights and days go by
and I don't mind
Parades go by
So many beautiful parades go by
Leave me behind

I'll sit and stare how could I venture anywhere
and let the centuries fall
where they may but never die
for I have loved and so
I lost the world above beyond the moss

and days go by
and I don't mind
Parades go by
So many beautiful parades go by
Leave me behind