When I Was King Lyrics

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