The Old King - Hamilton Leithauser

«Whatever happens

Know you can love me

Whatever happens next

Know you can trust me

No battle lost"

Growls the old King

«No war un-won»

He spits and he sings

«I wish I’d had the balls

To sell the army off

Pay all my enemies

And just swallow the loss

Whatever happens

Know you can love me"

I listened all night

The drinks were free

But soon his bitter heart

Got wearing on me

«Go all, go one

The night is young

My throat is dry

But I ain’t done

No I ain’t done

The loves of your life:

The glass and the wife

One guts you hollow

One twists the knife"

Morning had come

I left him inside

And I ran away

With the paling sky

Yeah I ran away

With the paling sky

«I wish I’d only had the balls

To bury the hatchet and forgive 'em all!

Cuz now the hours are days

And the days go like months

Whatever happens

You know I love you"