You Bowed Down

I suppose you're entitled to know

Why I'm making contact

With acqaintances scattered

All over the land

I'd promise you now and again

That I'd honor the contract

If it hadn't crumbled away in my hand

Well we broke that vow independently now

But I don't know why you absolutely deny

You bowed down

You bowed down

When you first looked away

I might say it was really a kindness

I must have hurt to see how dreams sour

Now they say that justice and love

Are the next things to blindness

Well you're getting plenty

Of both of them now

And so you parade where

Appointments are made

And never meant to be kept

Unless you accept

You'll value the burnt amber of falling leaves

And you'll long to delay

You feel their breath as they whisper

It won't hurt you now to betray

If you just bow down

And now every time that we meet

On the edge of hysteria

You're helping them sell off

Some new party line

I remember a time when you

Would have seemed so superior

Now you say "will you please

Meet this good friend of mine"

So you're in demand as long

As you kiss their hand

But all the applause

Is for their name not yours