Paper Maché
Composer(s): Burt Bacharach; Hal David
Performer(s): Dionne Warwick; Ronnie Aldrich



Twenty houses in a row
Eighty people watch a TV show
Paper people, carboard dreams

How unreal the whole thing seems

Chorus:
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

(Chorus)

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

(Chorus)

Like paper maché