[Intro]
        x2

[Verse]
            
I used to rule

     
 the world
            
Seas would ris

              
e when I gave 

    
the word
              
Now in the mor

            
ning I sleep a


lone
            
Sweep the stre

              
ets I used to 


own

            
I used to roll

     
 the dice
            
Feel the fear 

              
in my enemy's 


eyes
              
Listen as the 

          
crowd would si

ng:
            
"Now the old k

             
ing is dead! L


ong live the k

ing!"

             
One minute I h

       
eld the key
            
Next the walls

              
 were closed o

  
n me
              
And I discover

            
ed that my cas

      
tles stand
            
Upon pillars o

           
f salt and pil

lars of sand

[Chorus]
            
I hear Jerusal

   
em bells a rin

ging
            
Roman Cavalry 

   
choirs are sin

ging
            
Be my mirror m

   
y sword and sh

ield
            
My missionarie

       
s in a foreign

 field
            
For some reaso

    
n I can't expl

ain
            
Once you go th

            
ere was never,

            
 never an hone

   
st word
            
That was when 

            
I ruled the wo

rld

(Ohhh)

[Verse]
              
It was the wic

           
ked and wild w


ind
              
Blew down the 

            
doors to let m

  
e in
              
Shattered wind

            
ows and the so

       
und of drums
            
People couldn'

              
t believe what

 
 I'd become
            
Revolutionarie

  
s wait
            
For my head on

          
 a silver plat

e
              
Just a puppet 

            
on a lonely st


ring
            
Oh who would e

              
ver want to be

 
 king?

[Chorus]
            
I hear Jerusal

   
em bells a rin

ging
            
Roman Cavalry 

   
choirs are sin

ging
            
Be my mirror m

   
y sword and sh

ield
            
My missionarie

       
s in a foreign

 field
            
For some reaso

    
n I can't expl

ain
            
I know Saint P

          
eter will call

 my name
            
Never an hones

  
t word
             
But that was w

             
hen I ruled th

  
e world

(Ohhhhh Ohhh Ohhh)

[Chorus]
            
I hear Jerusal

   
em bells a rin

ging
            
Roman Cavalry 

   
choirs are sin

ging
            
Be my mirror m

   
y sword and sh

ield
            
My missionarie

       
s in a foreign

 field
            
For some reaso

    
n I can't expl

ain
            
I know Saint P

          
eter will call

 my name
            
Never an hones

  
t word
             
But that was w

             
hen I ruled th

  
e world

(Ohhhhh Ohhh Ohhh)