Once carried through the current and being swept away   The king is in the 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 42nd 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 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   So 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 granted   And now I don't know if I can 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   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 nighttimes and night dreams 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