Lyrics Shah Of Shahs - Al Stewart

Shah Of Shahs - Al Stewart
Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Shah Of Shahs, artist - Al Stewart. Album song Sparks of Ancient Light, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 14.09.2008
Record label: Rhino Entertainment Company
Song language: English

Shah Of Shahs

After these processions comes the sweeping up
The rag and bone possessions, an old tin cup
The army trucks have hauled away the newly slain
The angry crowd retreats, but they?
ll be back again
And the prisoner in the palace does not understand
The ingratitude around him after all he?
s done and planned
But if this the way that it must be then he?
ll be damned
If he will let them take away his perfect dream
Ministers stuff bank notes into leather bags
Their wives have packed the jewelry and the luggage tanks
The word is on the street now, growing day by day
And even the informers know the stay away
And the prisoner in the palace is appalled by this charade
Feeling strangely unprotected by his miles of golden braid
And if this is the way that it must be then I?
m afraid
He will not let them take away his perfect dream
And these mountains of equipment brought from foreign lands
Are now stacked up in the desert being buried by the sand
These rows of helicopters rusting where they stand
Are butterflies to take away the perfect dream
He cried inside the limousine and at the airport too
Where the soldier knelt before him and kissed his shoe
He flew across the desert and the open sea
While they tore down all his statues and his legacy
And the victor greets the newsmen with a strange and stoic style
They take a hundred thousand pictures and in none of them a smile
But this is just the way that it must be now for a while
He’s only come to bring another perfect dream

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