《Shah of Shahs》歌词

[00:00:00] Shah Of Shahs - Al Stewart

[00:00:04] After these processions comes the sweeping up

[00:00:35] The rag and bone possessions an old tin cup

[00:00:42] The army trucks have hauled away the newly slain

[00:00:50] The angry crowd retreats but theyll be back again

[00:00:57] And the prisoner in the palace does not understand

[00:01:05] The ingratitude around him after all hes done and planned

[00:01:13] But if this the way that it must be then hell be damned

[00:01:20] If he will let them take away his perfect dream

[00:01:25] Ministers stuff bank notes into leather bags

[00:01:34] Their wives have packed the jewelry and the luggage tanks

[00:01:41] The word is on the street now growing day by day

[00:01:49] And even the informers know the stay away

[00:01:56] And the prisoner in the palace is appalled by this charade

[00:02:04] Feeling strangely unprotected by his miles of golden braid

[00:02:12] And if this is the way that it must be then Im afraid

[00:02:19] He will not let them take away his perfect dream

[00:02:25] And these mountains of equipment brought from foreign lands

[00:03:04] Are now stacked up in the desert being buried by the sand

[00:03:11] These rows of helicopters rusting where they stand

[00:03:18] Are butterflies to take away the perfect dream

[00:03:24] He cried inside the limousine and at the airport too

[00:03:32] Where the soldier knelt before him and kissed his shoe

[00:03:39] He flew across the desert and the open sea

[00:03:47] While they tore down all his statues and his legacy

[00:03:54] And the victor greets the newsmen with a strange and stoic style

[00:04:03] They take a hundred thousand pictures and in none of them a smile

[00:04:10] But this is just the way that it must be now for a while

[00:04:17] Hes only come to bring another perfect dream