there's no time in punishment, only punishment in time.
watch me try to express this feeling in rhyme after rhyme,
hinting at verses and smirking at song,
... ahem, if we're lucky, this won't take too long.
follow me back some odd years ago,
i wasn't a child, but i wasn't old,
pristine in my presence, prestige in my power,
watching my land from atop my noble tower.
peasant and person fell to my paw,
for everyone knew that my word was law.
tracing back memories, shifting the tide,
it's no wonder now that I certainly died.
among my role of ruling, my hours of hierarchy,
a feeling kept pooling: is this all there is for me?
tracing back centuries, shifting the tide;
everyone knows why I turned to hide.
running from power and running from throne,
you can't imagine feeling so alone.
wanted by paper and teased by my tax,
never I'd known the pleasures peasantry lacks.
unopened doorways and closed-tight blinds,
it's a wonder that I wasn't caught all those times.
running from power, running from sin;
it's here that my story truly begins.
it was an evening so cold, so frightfully frigid,
I thought only hearts were quite this rigid.
never had I seen such a sight,
for blazing blue blizzards blinded the light.
here it came to be my final hours,
Lost in the limelight and blinded by towers.
It took me in, and It kept me warm,
A sought-after Savior out in the storm,
my payment was nothing: a prick in the neck.
well, i suppose, you can guess what comes next.
"Monster" -- a word so comically meek,
perfect for a man who couldn't take critique from followers aplenty, and sinners too,
for sin and the sinning is all that he knew.
now that I'm rabid, royal still lingers,
from the tags in my clothes to the rings on my fingers.
bow to me now, as you bowed to me then:
after all, you are now only men among mortals
while i'm a god among greeks;
taking back now the throne my soul keeps.
keep me in memory and keep me in snow,
a kingdom is ruled now as it was not long ago.
Lose me in ego, sing me in songs, after all this, my soul, it still longs
beyond these castle walls and tempts me to go:
away from the kingdom, into the snow.