The Queen is Dead

[Intro]

"Oh, take me back to dear old Blighty

Put me on the train for London Town

Take me anywhere, drop me anywhere

In Liverpool, Leeds or Birmingham, but I don't care

I should like to see—"

[Drum Solo]

[Verse 1]

(I don't bless them)

Farewell to this land's cheerless marshes

Hemmed in like a boar between archers

Her very lowness with her head in a sling

I'm truly sorry, but it sounds like a wonderful thing

I say, Charles, don't you ever crave

To appear on the front of the Daily Mail

Dressed in your mother's bridal veil?

(Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh)

[Verse 2]

And so I checked all the registered historical facts

And I was shocked into shame to discover

How I'm the eighteenth pale descendent

Of some old queen or other

Oh, has the world changed or have I changed?

Oh, has the world changed or have I changed?

Some nine year old tough who peddles drugs

I swear to God, I swear I never even knew what drugs were

(Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh)

[Verse 3]

So I broke into the Palace

With a sponge and a rusty spanner

She said, "'Ey, I know you, and you cannot sing"

I said, "That's nothing, you should hear me play piano"

We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry

And talk about precious things

But when you are tied to your mother's apron

No one talks about castration

(Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh)

[Verse 4]

We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry

And talk about precious things

Like love and law and poverty, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

(These are the things that kill me)

We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry

And talk about precious things

But the rain that flattens my hair, oh-oh-oh

(These are the things that kill me)

All their lies about makeup and long hair are still there

[Verse 5]

Past the pub that saps your body

And the church who'll snatch your money

The Queen is dead, boys

And it's so lonely on a limb

Pass the pub that wrecks your body

And the church, all they want is your money

The Queen is dead, boys

And it's so lonely on a limb

[Outro]

Life is very long when you're lonely

Life is very long when you're lonely

Life is very long when you're lonely

Life is very long when you're lonely

[Instrumental Outro]