[Verse 1]

Three days and a bed for recovery

Two years in a cell for a robbery

Twenty-seven, I have seen a funny dancing little dream

Rising shiver on my skin and flying up above my pillow

[Verse 2]

Two hours with the summer rising mercury

Fifteen minutes catching crickets from a rising tree

Twenty-seven I have seen many summers on the screen

Many fires burning clean boulevards from my window

[Verse 3]

All you servants at the door, listen to your king

Bow your head and be quiet as the emperor sings

Twenty-seven I have seen both the devil and the Queen

Goin' to heaven on a green brush stolen from my kitchen