In Recognition - The Proclaimers

In Recognition of your popularity

You take your gaudy prize from people you said you despised

You wear your self-respect upon your bended knees

In spite of all your claims

It looks like you’re just the same

As every other clown, who likes put the crown

Before or after their name

In Recognition of your service to the working class

In Recognition of your party loyalty

You get an ermine robe and you declare when you are probed

You only took it so the missus would be pleased

In spite of all your claims

It looks like you’re just the same

As every other clown, who likes put the crown

Before or after their names

Ohhhhhh Vanity

It gets them one by one

Patronage and Monarchy

And all they entail, rarely fail

In Recognition of your bravery up on the stage

In Recognition of your bank ability

You get to wait in lines with soldiers crippled by land mines

And you think it’s the yanks that don’t get irony

In spite of all your claims

It looks like you’re just the same

As every other clown, who likes put the crown

Before or after their names

In spite of all your claims

It looks like you’re just the same

As every other clown, who likes put the crown

Before or after their names

Their name

Their name

Their name