In recognition of a hundred million album sales   In recognition of your popularity   You take your gaudy prize   From people you said you despise   You wear your self-respect upon your bended knee      In spite of all your claims   It looks like you?re just the same   As every other clown who likes to put the crown   Before or after their name      In recognition of your service to the working class   In recognition of your party loyalty   You get an ermine robe   And you declare when you are probed   You only took it so the missus would be pleased      In spite of all your claims   It looks like you?re just the same   As every other clown who likes to put the crown   Before or after their names      Oh vanity   It gets them one by one   Cat, religion, monarchy   But only in tale, fairly frail      In recognition of your bravery up on the stage   In recognition of your bankability   You get to wait in lines   With soldiers crippled by land mines   And you think it?s the Yanks that don?t get irony      In spite of all your claims   It looks like you?re just the same   As every other clown who likes to put the crown   Before or after their name      In spite of all your claims   It looks like you?re just the same   As every other clown who likes to put the crown   Before or after their name      Their name   Their name   Their name