Page type: lyric reference
Artist: The Guess Who
Canonical path: /guess-who/cardboard-empire
Related lyric paths: 6
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Cardboard Empire
Read Cardboard Empire lyrics by The Guess Who on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Cardboard Empire
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Cardboard empire would you crumble to the ground
As we watched by
Shipping magnate are you stranded on the ground
With no dog to fly...
Round the table sat the kings of circumstance
The puppeteer would pull his strings
And we would sing and dance
As the cardboard empire fell
Stone Age Neros sat behind their desks of steel
Trading paper clips
Of our empire there was nothing left untouched
But potato chips
We sat down at the banquet and the jester danced a reel
The gladiator drew his sword, we knew we were the meal
As the cardboard empire fell
Who are the people, who are the people
Who are the people that you think you are?
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The Guess Who performs "Cardboard Empire", and this lyric page sits inside the The Guess Who catalog on LyroVerse.
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