DESCRIPTION:
Lorde meets Marie Antoinette.

Lyrics:
I buy my diamonds by the droves
My wedding ring costs just as much as a small country
And I wear flashy clothes, but don't laugh at me
Though my hats are funny

Cause every day is like abject poverty, Seven Years' War, and
Tax burdens that are heaped upon the poor
We don't care, we've got a palace at Versailles
But everybody's like pamphlets, shouting, what about the Third Estate?
Meeting in a tennis court, commoners are irate
We don't care, if people starve let them eat cake

Chorus:
Cause we'll always be royals
Self-concern is in our blood
Social change just ain't for us
National Assembly's such a fuss
Let me be your ruler, you can call me mother queen
And baby I'll rule
The constitutional monarchy

In a tennis court they made an oath
So we agreed to grant them a constitution
But we let Jacques Necker go
And now there's talk of a revolution

And everyday is like riots in Paris, storming the Bastille
Marquis de la Fayette, monarchy at low appeal
We don't care, long live the king of France
But everyone is like the peasantry is taking back the land
National Assembly declaring the rights of man
Maybe we care
Time to get out if we can

Chorus

Ooh ooh ooh
Worse than we ever dreamed
We're destined for the guillotine
Ooh ooh ooh
We were caught as we fled
Now it's off with my head

Chorus