In Recognition Lyrics - Proclaimers

In Recognition of your 100 million album sales 

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 

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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. 

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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.