Fifty Week King

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Lyrics

[Intro - Fingerpicked acoustic guitar, sparse]

[Verse 1 - Male Vocal, Baritone, deliberate]
They cheered my name for fifty weeks, five years they called me king
Every kill a coin, every coin a thing
Built a house I did not live in, bought a grass that did not grow
Spent the rest on sages, learning what I had to know

[Verse 2 - Male Vocal]
Hidden in the floorboards was the work I'd paid to find
Maps of distant kingdoms, names a god had left behind
Every swing I took out there was funding what waits in here
And the crowd that cheered a monster never saw the scholar's tears

[Pre-Chorus - guitar builds slightly]
I dropped the key upon the doorstep
I will not need it where I'm going

[Chorus - Full voice, still sparse]
I built the maze
I walked its every hall
I laid the stone and mortared up the wall
And every road I ever walked, I walked it all
To find the one door out
I built the maze

[Verse 3 - Male Vocal, quieter]
These five beside me are not kin, they are not friends of mine
They are fellow travelers heading down the selfsame line
Each of them is chasing something only they can name
And I wish them well, but I am not their flame

[Pre-Chorus]
I dropped the key upon the doorstep
I will not need it where I'm going

[Chorus]
I built the maze
I walked its every hall
I laid the stone and mortared up the wall
And every road I ever walked, I walked it all
To find the one door out
I built the maze

[Bridge - Cello enters, guitar quieter, voice low]
Zool
I have carried your name like a stone in my chest
Through every arena, through every conquest
Through the house I did not live in, through the years I did not rest
You have been the only compass that I ever needed pressed
Against my heart, against my breath, against my every step
I was always going there
I was always going there

[Instrumental - Cello and guitar, slow build]

[Verse 4 - Male Vocal, hooves of percussion enter, distant]
The Bleak Horizon waits ahead, three hundred years per breath
I have shed the weight of living so I can outrun death
Horn before me, ship beneath me, nothing left to keep
I was always going there
And now the road is steep

[Final Chorus - Fuller arrangement, still restrained]
I built the maze
I walked its every hall
I laid the stone and mortared up the wall
And every road I ever walked, I walked it all
To find the one door out
I built the maze

[Outro - Guitar and cello fade slow, no drums]
I built the maze
I built the maze

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