L’Orange, Mr. Lif - A Palace in the Sky lyrics

As the king sat in his robe
Holding the globe which he kept as a pet
Always claiming as a threat
He would alter cause and alter falter
To keep us in check
He said he'd crush our world
The galaxy is just a spec
In the corner of his far region, overreaching
Everlasting power
Never overthrown by cowards
But the gods didn't look upon this fondly
They called him tawdry as they observed him
They would notice while they're watching
He would spend hours holding his globe
Hoping to discover other factions
He could overthrow
This comic offense incensed the mystics
Plus the spirit's
Who had died fighting for his causes
The human losses
Such a dangerous territory to tread
When you've upset both the balance of
The living and the dead
They wanted his head
But found the violence too swift
A plan was then devised to
They could send him adrift

So the gods gathered
And they conceptualized the king's demise
They planned to put his palace in the skies
In the form of vapor
A disappearing act caper
A wonder of the world
It's inexplicable by nature
Everyday a different brick in
The walls evaporated
The first man to notice it was fascinated
But then his heart palpitated
Panic wriggled through the kingdom
The mystics start to sing
"this is what fate would bring the king"
The mystics didn't live long after that
Many inhabitants had left
This haunted habitat
And though the edifice was sick
The ruler wouldn't budge a lick
Cause it was clear that he
Was clinging to his gravitas

Months passed by
And one morning he opened his eye
To see no ceiling in his chambers
Just a view of the sky the walls were gone
The shades were drawn inside his mind
But now he's got no choice but to
View the other side of the blinds
What he finds is a world without his reign
Pure pain
The mighty ruler walking with a cane
With miles of lush hills before him
And grass is their decorum he screamed
"Why!?" and the skies did ignore him
He asked once again
But the world had resigned
No signs his time holding hands with time
With an eternity to Breath and
No chance to ever leave
He got lost in the mirage of his reprieve