A love song about looking up at the middle class, and about swimming pools, and new Camaros, and plumbers!
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Story behind the song
This is a song about growing up in working class towns, and the silly materialism and status-seeking that goes on all over this great but sometimes misguided country of ours.
Lyrics
Royalty
I remember that summer
Your daddy was a plumber
And when he looked down his nose at me
I couldn’t have felt dumber
You had a swimming pool in your backyard
And a color TV in your basement
Unicorns on your bedroom walls
But I knew that that look on his face meant
That I wouldn’t be welcome at dinner
Someone else would end up the winner
And I remember that summer
Your daddy was a plumber
And it must have made him sick
To think that I had your number
It must have killed him to know
All we did in the back of his brand new
Camaro
And I remember that summer
Your daddy was a plumber
You might as well have been royalty
He only wanted the best for you
He only wanted the best for you
And that wasn’t me
Only the best for you
And that wasn’t me…
