Kaleidoscope - A Lesson Perhaps lyrics
rate meThe early morning castle stirred, <br />
The King of the forest stared vacantly, <br />
Toward the east, <br />
His bloodshot eyes caught no reasoning, <br />
A lazy fly landed on his suit of velvet, <br />
And he cursed the creator.<br />
Like an unwanted shadow, <br />
The Queen of conscience entered the already broken morning, <br />
She spoke, "Eat my master", <br />
The king moved to a coffin corner, <br />
Where another lazy fly contemplated the dust of time.<br />
"Bring me a kingdom and I will eat," <br />
His voice disturbed the dust and the fly, <br />
"I am without power to bring you power,"<br />
The Queen sighed like an autumn breeze, <br />
"Then I will not eat."<br />
The King moved to his guilty throne, <br />
And seated himself among his ancestors, <br />
"My King, if you want respect and admiration, <br />
If you want a kingdom and power, <br />
If you want money and love, if you want respect and admitation, <br />
Then you must go out, and you must take it."<br />
The King stared vacantly to the east, <br />
And a dozen flies waiting in the dust stared back, <br />
"I am the King, it is not my part to capture and claim, <br />
It is my people's duty,"<br />
The Queen cried and the little crystal tears tickled her cheeks.<br />
She brushed them away angrily, <br />
"You have no people, and while you remain the ghost of the past, <br />
You will never have people or a kingdom,"<br />
She ran from the patchetic chamber, <br />
A fly left with him.<br />
The king breathed and though deeply, <br />
"I will have people," he said nervously to his conscience, <br />
"I will have people."<br />
The King of the forest never rose again from his guilty throne, <br />
And the dust and the lazy flies lived on him, <br />
And the King lived on his dreams, <br />
And died on them.
