This Is My Kingdom Now - Justin Currie

Guess I got lucky

That God didn’t take me away

Administered to by flunkies

And baptised every day

But I think I’ve got it figured

I’ve fallen into hell somehow

So tell those vacant visitors

That this is my kingdom now

They line the hallways

A colonnade of bones

I pull their strings sideways

And wheel them about in their thrones

And I know this can’t be paradise

That much the angels will allow

So tell those shuffing shadows

That this is my kingdom now

I was sure that I could hear applause

And that I should take a bow

But no-one seems to care in here

That this is my kingdom now

Guess I got lucky

That God didn’t take me away

I motion like a monkey

And hope somebody sees me today

And the peasants from the village

They have brought their horse and plough

So I turn my face to the radio

And say 'this is my kingdom now'

And my daughter looks so queenly

As her fingers feather my brow

And the crown, it fits so keenly

'Cause this is my kingdom now