Shah Of Shahs
Al Stewart

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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