When I Was King 歌词

When I was King I was not really the man I am now I was like anyone sitting on a throne made out of china When I was king I had already abdicated Already melted my crown down to sell as scrap But they'd run the first run of stamps People had cashed in their post office savings To buy some and lick the back of my neck I just let them get on with it arrange the coronation I just didn't turn up, I just didn't turn up You became Queen to a regime of fixed ideas The subjects just outlines like figures in a shadow cabinet And then we ruled over some green and pleasant land With a frog and a princess not necessarily in that order But if you want it to be What you want it to be You'll have to dethrone me or have me decapitated I didn't want to be King anyway I always preferred to hang out With the servants, the servants When I was King When I was King there was no country left to rule Jesters and fools were leaders all of them a royal pain Now I'm a serf but I'm still trying to be a king But putting the crown on is like putting a silk purse on a sow's ear And if I want it to be Like I want it to be I'll have to assassinate someone with a guitar as a gun On it's good to be King I know that I've been there Many, many, many, many kingdoms ago When I was King