The Greatest Living Englishman

[Verse 1]
In liberty bags and pink carnations
And whistle from Savile Row
I measured my life in invitations
But it seems a long time ago

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Ah, some you win, some you lose
I never had those guilty blues

[Chorus]
How they'd love to see me now
A prisoner in the tower
I was the greatest living Englishman
Debts but very few regrets
Up in the misty minarets
I was the greatest living Englishman

[Verse 2]
It's such a long way from barrow boy (it's such a long way)
Up to position of Doctor Gas
But with a good spiel and a decent ploy (with a good spiel)
You spin media hype from trash

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Ah well, we were the coming men
And there was so much money then

[Chorus]
How they'd love to see me now
A prisoner in the tower
I was the greatest living Englishman
High, enough to wonder why
It would have been mad not to try
To be the greatest living Englishman

[Break]
Such a long way...

[Verse 3]
They tell me I was a social animal
The way the champagne was splashed
The warning light only showed on cannibal
The day that my empire crashed

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Ah, some you win, some you lose
I never had those guilty blues

[Chorus]
How they'd love to see me now
A prisoner in the tower
I was the greatest living Englishman
High, enough to wonder why
It would have been mad not to try
To be the greatest living Englishman

[Outro]
How they'd love to see me now
A prisoner in the tower
I was the greatest living
The greatest living
The greatest living
Englishman