Length: 2:26

BPM: 85

[Verse 1] Bb King of silver C King of gold Bb And everything glittering C Under the ground Bb Hades is king C Of oil and coal Bb And the riches that flow C Where those rivers are found [Verse 2] Bb C But for half of the year with Persephone gone Bb C His loneliness moves in him crude and black Bb C He thinks of his wife in the arms of the sun Bb C Bb C And jealousy fuels him and feeds him and fills him Bb C With doubt that she'll never come Bb C Dread that she'll never come Bb C Doubt that his lover C7 Will ever come back [Verse 3] Bb King of mortar C King of bricks Bb C The River Styx is a river of stones Bb C And Hades lays them high and thick Bb C With a million hands that are not his own [Verse 4] Bb C With a million hands, he builds a wall Bb C Around all the riches he digs from the Earth Bb The pickaxe flashes C The hammer falls Bb C And crashing and pounding Bb C As rivers surround him Bb C And drown out the sound of the song he once heard: [Verse 5] Bb C Dm La la la la la la la... Bb C D La la la la la la la... Bb C Dm La la la la la la la... Bb C La la la la la la...