King of Pain

There's a little black spot on the sun today,

it's the same old thing as yesterday.

There's a black hat caught in a high treetop.

There's a flagpole rag and the wind won't stop.

I have stood here before inside the pourin' rain,

with the world turnin' circles, runnin' 'round my brain.

I guess I'm always hopin' that you'll end this reign,

but it's my destiny to be the king of pain.

There's a little black spot on the sun today,

that's my soul up there;

it's the same old thing as yesterday,

that's my soul up there.

There's a black hat caught in a high treetop,

that's my soul up there.

There's a flagpole rag and the wind won't stop,

that's my soul up there.

I have stood here before inside the pourin' rain,

with the world turnin' circles, runnin' 'round my brain.

I guess I'm always hopin' that you'll end this reign,

but it's my destiny to be the king of pain.

There's a fossil that's trapped in a high cliff wall,

that's my soul up there.

There's a dead salmon frozen in a waterfall,

that's my soul up there.

There's a blue whale beached by a spring tide's ebb,

that's my soul up there.

There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web,

that's my soul up there.

I have stood here before inside the pourin' rain,

with the world turnin' circles, runnin' 'round my brain.

I guess I'm always hopin' that you'll end this reign,

but it's my destiny to be the king of pain.

There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out.

There's a blind man lookin' for a shadow of doubt.

There's a rich man sleepin' on a golden bed.

There's a skeleton chokin' on a crust of bread.

King of pain.

There's a red fox torn by a huntsmen's pack,

that's my soul up there.

There's a black-winged gull with a broken back,

that's my soul up there.

There's a little black spot on the sun today,

it's the same old thing as yesterday.

I have stood here before inside the pourin' rain,

with the world turnin' circles, runnin' 'round my brain.

I guess I'm always hopin' that you'll end this reign,

but it's my destiny to be the king of pain,

king of pain, king of pain, king of pain.

I'll always be king of pain.

I'll always be king of pain. I'll always be king of pain.

I'll always be king of pain. I'll always be