Friday, October 10, 2014

The King of Love

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Ah the king of love’s a tyrant, his throne is made of dreams
His beauty is a painted face that’s never what it seems
He’ll burn you with a fire brighter than the stars above
Let’s overthrow the king of love
Let’s overthrow the king of love

Let’s sentence him to servitude of unrequited lust
Tie him in a coxcomb or bind him in a truss
Condemn him to eternity and if that’s not enough
Then overthrow the king of love

Let’s overthrow the king, let’s overthrow the king
Let’s overthrow the king of love
Let’s overthrow the king, come on everybody sing
Let’s overthrow the king of love

Let’s take vengeance for our sufferings, our sorrows and our fears
Make him live with Jezebel at least a thousand years
Make him know the misery we’ve all had our share of
Let’s overthrow the king of love

Send him to Delilah, she will rob him of his power
Make him spy on Messalina hour after hour
You see hating doesn’t hurt you, no not even half as much
Let’s overthrow the king of love

Make him trust to Cleopatra wherever his ships are bound
Make him see Medusa every time he turns around
Leave his flesh as carrion to tempt the holy dove
And overthrow the king of love

The king of love’s a sadist, he loves to see your pain
No sooner are you out of love, he puts you in again
When walking hand in hand with him, beware the fisted glove
Overthrow the king of love

Punish all his wickedness, take his broken heart
Lash it to the crosspole, nail it to the mast
Make him hear the Sirens and know what they’re speaking of
Overthrow the king of love

Yeah, let’s wake him every hour to make love once again
Each time he claims love’s purity, make him see the stain
When he rides you like a stallion straddled from above
Overthrow the king of love



For some reason I never sing the last two verses; perhaps just the feeling that the song should have made its rather pointless point by then, and is growing tediously overlong .








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Words and music by David Prashker

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