Simple/rough recording just to get this song uploaded. I've pretty much had it with this song haha. I'm hoping that some hitRECorder will be inspired to re-record/re-invent it or something....

Some things I think it needs:

-piano (I sort of envisioned it as being a piano+vocals song anyway, but I neither play, nor own a piano, so....)

-improved song structure. At the moment it's like verse-verse-chorus-bridge1-bridge2-chorus...and it's not sitting right with me. It probably needs another verse after the chorus.

-possibly, a new melody for the verses....that's not fully sitting well with me either.

Anyway...I might work on this some more, but I wanted to submit this in case any of you creative geniuses might be able to make something bigger and better out of this. 

Chords:  Dm  F  C

Lyrics: 

Walking down the open road,

Not a soul blocks his path.

But his reign is ages old,

And the time has come to harvest sown wrath.

He built his fortress by the sea,

And now it's washing away.

He wonders, "Who will stand by me?"

As the sky turns to a deeper shade of grey.

And it all fell apart,

Everything of old.

Doomed right from the start,

Cast in a broken man's mould.

And it all fell apart,

Everything was sold.

A kingdom for a quarter,

Bought by a bitter man's gold.

Oh, how can a king go and face the waves (fade away?)

Oh, cursed man living in a golden age.

With the world behind closed doors.