The motorcade is never-ending    The marshalls wave their wheel appeal    Only some of them are breathing    Only some know what to feel       The generals grit their teeth and smile    Just for a little while    Until they think they can't be seen    Then pour contempt through eyes that seem like magnets    Small and hard    Magnets       They rolled away down through the arches    The wet streets shined confetti-lined    The sun burns everything it touches    The motorcade dissolves the mind       The madman grits his teeth and smiles    Just for a little while    As though he knows he can't be seen    Then pours contempt through eyes that seem like magnets    Small and hard    Just like magnets    Out of the crowd    Just like magnets    Kennedy's children all magnets       Waste of time at the Alamo    All the kids singing “Go Johnny, go Johnny, go!”    All the cars parked out of view    And someone on a roof with a job to do       But the hotdogs sell and the cameras roll    It's a star situation, but it's out of control    There's a man with a message and it's written on lead    There's a man who is god, but god is dead       Still we grit out teeth and smile    Just for a little while    As though we think we can be seen    We pour contempt through eyes that seem like magnets    Small and hard    Just like magnets    Out of a crowd    Just like magnets    Kennedy's children all magnets    Magnets staring up    Just like magnets    Burning the sky    Just like magnets    Kennedy's children all magnets       Magnetized boys, boys, boys