you lived blissfully in your palace
you were thought of as being callous
you weren’t aware of all the malice
were you?
he came a-walking down your royal street
a peasant man on his holy feet
he never was very discreet
was he?
sorry to hear about your abdication
it must have been such a humiliation
you never got the right information
did you?
you couldn’t count upon your extended family
they acted like you had leprosy
I guess that destiny had to be
to be
three hundred years hanging by a thread
snipped away for the lure of red
then they made sure you were good and dead
didn’t they?
