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When I was King I was not really the man I am now 
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I was like anyone sitting on a throne made out of china
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When I was king I had already abdicated 
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Already melted my crown down to sell as scrap 
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But they'd run the first run of stamps 
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People had cashed in their post office savings 
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To buy some and lick the back of my neck 
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I just let them get on with it  arrange the coronation 
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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 
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Many, many, many, many kingdoms ago When I was King
 
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