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