I don't wanna steal the gold away
Nevermore to wonder
Never got to hold her
I don't want to leave you to decay
To be your desire
Of all that you admire
I don't wanna beg you not to stay
It's only forever
Evermore to sever
I don't wanna steal the gold away
So never guard the gold
All I ever wanted to say to you
Was that they who ruled
Couldn't take the news that
Not everybody was afraid of you
And was fated to
Who created you
Take a bullet for me maybe then
I'll pray to you
Can't relate to you
Not afraid of you
Hold you in my arms and I'll wait for you
When the paper's due
Not afraid of you
Deep inside your pyramid
You live instead
Of inherited
Historians would call you illegitimate
To be here amidst
The dispirited
Every time the gospel is revisited
And your innocence
Becomes bigoted
I wonder if you understand the spirit is
Only written in
Side the pyramid
Nine years old and covered in birds
Nine years old and covered in birds
Lose you to time
But I'm only what I can't control
Love you but I can't
Imagine what they had foretold
I apologize
It was all we had and all we know
It wasn't fair
You were only nine years old
Play with your toys
Carve your wooden ducks and wooden boats
You were a child
For the pedigree to over vote
I'm so sorry
You had to do it all alone
It wasn't fair
You were only nine years old
I don't wanna steal the gold away
I don't wanna steal the gold away
I don't wanna steal the gold away
I don't wanna steal the gold away
So never guard the gold
Cursed from birth to be broken up
And be spoken of
As a joke among
The peasantry and pageantry
Who floated up
And eroded all
Their devotional
A child for a child for a legacy
For identity
For an enemy
A toll carried horribly and heavily
A necessity
For a remedy
Nineteen years and on death's door
Nineteen years and nevermore
Lose you to time
But I'm only what I can't control
Love you but I can't
Imagine what they had foretold
I apologize
It was all we had and all we know
It wasn't fair
You were only nine years old
Play with your toys
Carve your wooden ducks and wooden boats
You were a child
For the pedigree to over vote
I'm so sorry
You had to do it all alone
It wasn't fair
You were only nine years old
I don't wanna steal the gold away
(This golden son with a golden mask)
(Muffled in mystery, shrouded by time)
I don't wanna steal the gold away
(Limped with a golden walking stick)
(Contracted malaria in his prime)
I don't wanna steal the gold away
(His parents were sister and brother)
(His two babies died in the womb)
I don't wanna steal the gold away
(Cleft palate. Club foot. Broken leg)
So never guard the gold
(Golden king in a luminous tomb)
I don't wanna steal the gold away
(Years unlived. Stories untold.)
(So little time. So much gold.)
I don't wanna steal the gold away
(Years unlived. Stories untold.)
(So little time. So much gold.)
I don't wanna steal the gold away
(Years unlived. Stories untold.)
(So little time. So much gold.)
I don't wanna steal the gold away
(Years unlived. Stories untold.)
So never guard the gold
(So little time. So much gold.)
I don't wanna steal the gold away
So never guard the gold