What is all this clamor in the market?
Why is all this money changing hands?
Don’t they know the king is dying?
Why is there not a pall across the land?
Where is all the weeping and the wailing?
It’s not as if they’re paralyzed with grief
The center of the universe is failing
And it doesn’t seem to move them in the least
The king is dying
He’s lying there alone
With mind ablaze and body burning
The king is dying
He’s dying on the throne
And a world, untroubled, keeps on turning
When he’s cold, do we not shiver with him?
When he moans do we not feel it in our bones?
When he fades will he take out the solar system?
Is this the end of life as we have known it?
And down below the towers of the palace
These peasants live their lives unchanged
His life is hanging in the balance
Have they no sense of shame?
The king is dying
He hasn’t got a prayer
Awake and staring at the ceiling
The king is sliding
Into thin air
From a world indifferent and unfeeling
It’s quiet in the kingdom
Through a night that’s dark and long
A nightingale will sing him
Into a final dawn
But there’s no strange stirring in the southland
No cataclysm looming in the west
If the sun makes it over the horizon
He’ll be forgotten with the rest
The king is dying
He’s lying there alone
With mind ablaze and body burning
The king is dying
He’s dying on the throne
And a world, untroubled, keeps on turning
credits
from Eternity Resumes,
released November 1, 2018
ljg – guitar, vocals
Michael Burns – drums
Daniel Fabricant – acoustic bass
Rob Reich – vibraphone
Dana Lyn – violin
Colin McGrath – string arrangement
mixed by Paul Scriver
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