Barry Lawton - still you bow down

Still you bow down
Unzip their flies
And graze the skin from off your knees
Clutching your flag in the pouring rain
Waving at strangers high upon a balcony
From your place in the gutter beneath the lowest branch on the tree
Still you bow down and accept your place in this scheme

Still you bow down
Unzip their flies
And graze the skin from off your knees
A devotion to the realm
Is no more abstract
Than a belief in unicorns and fairies
You take their titles as a leg up to the aristocracy
Still you bow down as a sword acclaims your nobility

Don't it make you proud
When the anthem's sung aloud
Footballer's belting out god save the queen
Blood spilled in our name
Is a barely whispered shame
Lord god have mercy on our history

Still you bow down
Unzip their flies
And graze the skin
From off your knees
There really just like us
But very upper crust
Though unlike us
They don't earn their keep
From your place in the gutter you lose sense of all that is real
So let's all bow down and accept our place is to grovel and kneel

Written by:
Barry Lawton

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