King for a Day Lyrics

From the album: oranges and lemons

Everyone's creeping up to the money god, putting tongues

where they

didn't ought to be, on stepping stones of human hearts and

souls, into

the land of "nothing for free."

Well the way that we're living, is all take and no giving,

there's

nothing to believe in, the loudest mouth will hail the new

found way,

to be king for a day.

Everyone's licking up to the new king pin, trying to get

way up with

a smile. Sing for your supper boy and jump to a finger

click, ain't
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my way of living in style.

'Cause the ladder gets longer, and ambition gets stronger,

I can't

satisfy the hunger, that bad old moon has got you in its

sway, to be

king for a day.

You're only here once so you got to get it right. (No

time to fuss

and fight.) 'Cause life don't mean much if measured out

with someone

else's plight. (In time you'll see the light.)

'Cause the way that we're living, is all take and no

giving, there's

not much to believe in, the loudest mouth will hail the new

found way
to be king for a day.