The Tales of My Demise are Greatly Exaggerated

Riff

Verse 1

They think the game is over,

They crowned a set of fools,

But every king who's fallen

Has played by his own rules.

I watch from darkened corners,

I count the cards they deal,

A ghost needs no throne under him

To make the others kneel.

Chorus

And my game runs deeper still

In nights of black, and days of red

They move, unknowing, with my will

Thinking they are free, instead

No one sees the master player,

No one sees him scheme and plan

No one feels the gears that grind

No one knows the game began

Instrumental Break

Verse 2

The boy who helms my kingdom

Thinks the choices were his own,

But every move he's making

Was a seed that I had sown.

A word placed here, a silence there,

A rumor softly grown -

Until the world holds its breath,

And no one moves... On their own

Chorus

And my game runs deeper still

In nights of black, and days of red

They move, unknowing, with my will

Thinking they are free, instead

No one sees the master player,

No one sees him scheme and plan

No one feels the gears that grind

No one knows the game began

Instrumental Break

Bridge

The cards won't fall,

The cards won't turn,

The game goes on,

And still I burn.

Chorus

And my game runs deeper still

In nights of black, and days of red

They move, unknowing, with my will

Thinking they are free, instead

No one sees the master player,

No one sees him scheme and plan

No one feels the gears that grind

No one knows the game began

Instrumental Outro