I expect you're entitled to know why I'm making contact    With acquaintances scattered all over the land    I'd promise you now and again that I'd honour the contract    If it hadn't crumbled away in my hand    So we broke that vow independently now    But I don't know why you absolutely deny    You bowed down (you bowed down, you bowed down)    You bowed down (you bowed down, you bowed down)       When you first looked away I might say it was really a kindness    It must have hurt you to see how dreams sour    Now they say that justice and love are the next things to blindness    Well you're getting plenty of both of them now    And so you parade where appointments are made    And never meant to be kept    Unless you accept       You bowed down (you bowed down, you bowed down)    You bowed down (you bowed down, you bowed down)       You value the burnt amber of falling leaves    And you long to delay    As you feel their breath as they whisper    "It won't hurt you now to betray    If you just bow down"       And now every time that we meet on the edge of hysteria    You're helping them sell off some new party line    I remember a time when you would have seemed so superior    Now you say "Will you please meet this good friend of mine?"    So you're in demand as long as you kiss their hand    But all the applause is for their name not yours       You bowed down (x8)