The Emperor's Clothes Songtext
von Softwire

For so long I′ve been your servant
I've followed you and fervent-
-ly done all your bidding, big and small
But one June day I realised - you don′t deserve my sacrifice
So now I'll take my freedom once and for all

I've had your back for all this time
I never stopped to think if you had mine
But all your signs of dedication, they were fake
Let′s back things up a tad -
If you don′t like it, that's too bad
And I′ve been giving all I had, it's time to take back control

I don′t need your funny games
Or your money, or your fame
Because the time is up for us, I'm breaking free

God, do I feel like an idiot. And it′s taken me this long to realise


I hate your guts, I hate your smile
I hate the way you treat me like a child
And all the while you never realised I might go
Well you'd better believe it, I'll do things as I see fit
I′ll take my life and live it, on my own

And I don′t like your music taste
Or the patronising face
You make each time I try to say I'm serious
′Cause now that I've shed this load
I′ve seen through the emperor's clothes
And nothing you might say can make me stay
No, nothing you might say can make me stay

Now listen here, Fraulein, I don′t give a damn
Frankly how deep your head's stuck in the sand
It isn't my fault that you′re too blind to see this hurts you
Three hundred and fifty million times more than me

Cause I′ve had it with you, I quit, your politics is making me sick
Think you're diplomatic? You think you get to pick? Ha!
You′ll be beggars, not choosers, just losers and booze cruisers
And soon you will rue the day you ruined what we had


But it's gone now, you killed it, congratu-fucking-lations
The wealth of this nation ain′t much for contemplation
No bangs here, only whimpers. Sympathetic? You wrecked it!
Ya been trumped, you're infected, don′t go looking all dejected
Time to reject us ever getting a happy ending for this story
I'm tired of always saying sorry, you're beginning to bore me
So why don′t you fuck right off fast as you can, yeah?
It′s Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, and do svi-fucking-daniya

It's been a year, or maybe two
It′s all a little blurred, to tell the truth
And I've been through such awful hardships after us
Guess it′s true I never knew
About the economic consequences of an abrupt withdrawal
From the single market of the EU
But at least I've got a really shiny bus

And I don′t regret a single thing
So you just stop your giggling
Because I'm doing well
I'm completely fine

And maybe I didn′t spot
That beautiful thing we′d got
Until you cruelly took it all away
Please, won't you find a way to let me stay?