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Closet chronicles

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Kansas Canonical path: /kansas/closet-chronicles Related lyric paths: 6
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Closet chronicles

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Once carried through the current and being swept away

The king is in his closet, he's hiding from today

And though he owns all fortunes, this room is where he'll stay

And his world is filled with darkness, turning grey

Gazing out the window of the forty-second floor

He is separate from all others, no one knocks upon his door

And it might as well be raining 'cause the sunlight hurts his eyes

And his ears will never hear the children's cries

Once proud and full of passion, he fought by the cause of man

Many people loved his courage, many followed his command

He changed the old into the new, and the course of things to come

And then one day they noticed he was gone

At first it didn't matter, nobody seemed to care

They all became too busy to find him anywhere

But no one knew not even him, the problems he would find

On the day he journeyed deep into his mind

I close my eyes, I go far away, away from this battlefield

In my dreams, well here I will enjoy it

Where innocence plays with all,

The laughing children the kind who are crying right now

A taste of freedom from the pain of everything here I see

Life is sweet but I took it all for grant

And now I don't know if I could even tell you

Just what we permit, we allow

Allow me to forget the life I've made my own

I've held this nation in my hand, and yet it's not my home

Oh, allow me just one answer, and one reason why

Why this refugee of the family of Man must die? Tell me why?

Daydreams filled his night times, and nightdreams filled his days

Confusion and uncertainty, a puzzled mind of haze

You thought he was so powerful, and set upon his ways

Well he left us all to follow through this maze

I heard the king was dying, I heard the king was dead

And with him died the chronicles that no one ever read

The closet's fully empty now, it's occupied by none

I'll draw the drapes, now destiny is done

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