[ti:When I Was King]
[ar:Graham Parker]
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[00:00.00]When I Was King - Graham Parker
[00:20.86]When I was King I was not really the man I am now
[00:27.59]I was like anyone sitting on a throne made out of china
[00:34.61]When I was king I had already abdicated
[00:41.28]Already melted my crown down to sell as scrap
[00:48.34]But they'd run the first run of stamps
[00:51.98]People had cashed in their post office savings
[00:57.20]To buy some and lick the back of my neck
[01:02.44]I just let them get on with it arrange the coronation
[01:07.78]I just didn't turn up I just didn't turn up
[01:16.28]You became Queen to a regime of fixed ideas
[01:22.93]The subjects just outlines like figures in a shadow cabinet
[01:29.94]And then we ruled over some green and pleasant land
[01:36.85]With a frog and a princess not necessarily in that order
[01:44.03]But if you want it to be What you want it to be
[01:49.88]You'll have to dethrone me or have me decapitated
[01:57.99]I didn't want to be King anyway I always preferred to hang out
[02:06.31]With the servants the servants
[02:11.98]When I was King
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[02:38.00]There was no country left to rule
[02:43.21]Jesters and fools were leaders all of them a royal pain
[02:50.02]Now I'm a serf but I'm still trying to be a king
[02:56.59]But putting the crown on is like
[02:59.44]Putting a silk purse on a sow's ear
[03:03.89]And if I want it to be Like I want it to be
[03:09.53]I'll have to assassinate someone with a guitar as a gun
[03:18.03]On it's good to be King I know that I've been there
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