The Divine Comedy Bang Goes the Knighthood song lyrics

Out of the station and through the arcade

Past the antique shops of Regent’s Parade

To an innocuous London address

A quick glance around and then down the wet steps

God only knows what keeps bringing me here

Gambling with everything that I hold dear

One careless word in establishment ears

And bang goes the knighthood, the wife and career

You make me feel

You make me feel something

And feeling something beats feeling nothing at all

And nothing at all is what I feel all the rest of the time

If someone sees

If someone hears something

I know it’s coming, the fear is making me ill

But then fear is part of the thrill

They taught me discipline at boarding school

The consequences of breaking the rules

They said ‘we’re just being cruel to be kind’

As they beat me to within an inch of my life

So chain me, restrain me and teach me to kneel

Bind me and grind me beneath your high heels

Crack goes the whip, and if someone should tell

Bang goes the knighthood as-well