《When I Was King》歌词

[00:00:00] When I Was King - Graham Parker

[00:00:20] When I was King I was not really the man I am now

[00:00:27] I was like anyone sitting on a throne made out of china

[00:00:34] When I was king I had already abdicated

[00:00:41] Already melted my crown down to sell as scrap

[00:00:48] But they'd run the first run of stamps

[00:00:51] People had cashed in their post office savings

[00:00:57] To buy some and lick the back of my neck

[00:01:02] I just let them get on with it arrange the coronation

[00:01:07] I just didn't turn up I just didn't turn up

[00:01:16] You became Queen to a regime of fixed ideas

[00:01:22] The subjects just outlines like figures in a shadow cabinet

[00:01:29] And then we ruled over some green and pleasant land

[00:01:36] With a frog and a princess not necessarily in that order

[00:01:44] But if you want it to be What you want it to be

[00:01:49] You'll have to dethrone me or have me decapitated

[00:01:57] I didn't want to be King anyway I always preferred to hang out

[00:02:06] With the servants the servants

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[00:02:38] There was no country left to rule

[00:02:43] Jesters and fools were leaders all of them a royal pain

[00:02:50] Now I'm a serf but I'm still trying to be a king

[00:02:56] But putting the crown on is like

[00:02:59] Putting a silk purse on a sow's ear

[00:03:03] And if I want it to be Like I want it to be

[00:03:09] I'll have to assassinate someone with a guitar as a gun

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