The Fall was Long and Hard

Verse 1

Silver spurs

Clinking on the floorboard of a dusty church

I held the sun

Captive in my pocket just to prove it could be done

Empty

Everything I touched turned to gray

I built a palace out of pride

Used my brothers as the clay

Chorus

Is it heavy

Is it heavy

The gold I stole from the ghost of a king

It don't feel like a crown

It feels like a chain

Running through my veins

Like a cold black rain

Cold black rain

Verse 2

Stumbled

Fell hard on the gravel of the valley floor

Mirror cracked

Saw a face I didn't recognize no more

Bridges burning

Smoke getting thick in my lungs

I counted my riches

By the number of sharpened tongues

Low

Down low

Chorus

Is it heavy

Is it heavy

The gold I stole from the ghost of a king

It don't feel like a crown

It feels like a chain

Running through my veins

Like a cold black rain

Cold black rain

Bridge

Maybe I was blind

Maybe I was cruel

Maybe I was just a damn fool

The fiddle's crying out for the man I used to be

While the river's rising up just to swallow me

Whole

Deep down in my soul

Verse 3

Silence

Thicker than the mud on my Sunday shoes

The wind

Howling all the things I'm scared to lose

I walked on water

Just to find out it was ice

Paid for the glory

But I never checked the price

Twice

Lost my luck at the roll of the dice

Chorus

Is it heavy

Is it heavy

The gold I stole from the ghost of a king

It don't feel like a crown

It feels like a chain

Running through my veins

Like a cold black rain

Cold black rain

Outro

Walking slow

Walking home

Walking all alone

Into the dark

Into the dirt

Into the hurt

The king is gone

The king is gone

The king is gone