In Recognition of your 100 million album sales
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In Recognition of your popularity
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You take your gaudy prize from people you said you despised
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You wear your self-respect upon your bended knees.
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In spite of all your claims
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It looks like you're just the same
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As every other clown, who likes put the crown
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Before or after their name.
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In Recognition of your service to the working class
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In Recognition of your party loyalty
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You get an ermine robe and you declare when you are probed
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You only took it so the missus would be pleased
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In spite of all your claims
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It looks like you're just the same
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As every other clown, who likes put the crown
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Before or after their names.
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Ohhhhhh Vanity
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It gets them one by one
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Patronage and Monarchy
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And all they entail, rarely fail
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In Recognition of your bravery up on the stage
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In Recognition of your bank ability
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You get to wait in lines with soldiers crippled by land mines
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And you think it's the yanks that don't get irony
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In spite of all your claims
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It looks like you're just the same
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As every other clown, who likes put the crown
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Before or after their names.
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In spite of all your claims
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It looks like you're just the same
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As every other clown, who likes put the crown
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Before or after their names.
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Their name
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Their name
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Their name
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In Recognition
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The Proclaimers |