Empire

I'm gonna build me an empire

and you will adore me

I'll set you all free

I got eyes made of sapphire And lungs like a Peepal tree See how loud I can scream

I am a vampire Sucking on my thumb

Playing with atom bombs.

I am a live wire

Touch me and you are gone

Watch me just take it all

Everybody here knows that I should play the hero

Put me on your talk show and I'll change

the world.

But when this all falls down don't go looking at me

Yeah when the shits hits fan man guess where I'll be

I'll be on an island, sipping Johnnie Walker, somewhere in the highlands, in my little bunker

People understand that I'm in it for me.

I was a troubled child

Now I'm your favourite toy But I'm just a decoy.

I told you my history Dressed up in red and blue Colonial afternoons.

As a boy I was porcelain Now I'm all leather

Sew me together

I guess I've got everything But it's all whatever

I could do better

Everybody here knows that I should play the hero.

Put my on your talk show and I'll change the world.

But when this all falls down don't go looking at me

Cause when the shits hits fan man guess where I'll be

I'll be on an island, sipping Johnnie Walker, somewhere in the highlands, in my little bunker

People understand that I'm in it for me.