[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