Song Description

Ironic Country Tune with witty lyrics 3rd place winner Amatuer Lyric Contest, American Songwiter Magazine November 2006

Lyrics

Thrones of Gold
By Darrin James

I?m lost standin? on a dark road side
Lookin? for my bag in the soft moonlight
I?m a wasted man, I?m a space cadet.
Lookin? for meaning in a bathroom stall
Lookin? for Jesus in a shopping mall
I?m a tasteless man, I?m American
Someone?s spouting theories in my ear on relationships
Intellectuals criticize the war and the modernists.
Why don?t we just run away into the night
To our thrones of gold

I?m done dreamin? of a distant land
Tired of talkin? into the fan
There?s a place I know, Sometime we?ll go
Sick of slurpin? blood through a straw
Sick of some schmuck fuckin? up for us all
I?m a straight shot man, Bullshit can?t stand
Suddenly the situation changed for everyone
Somehow someone sought to seek some vengeance on everyone
Why don?t we sit here and suffer as if we?re innocent to the bone
From our thrones of gold.

(Instrumental verse)
Why don?t we run from ourselves into the night
To our thrones of gold

I?m goin? somewhere I?ve never been
My life here is at an end
I?ll be an honest man with a calloused hand
Goin where people don?t work so hard.
Noone?s gonna show me no business card
I?m outta here, Won?t shed no tear
Some small child singing in my ear sweet soft melodies
It?s too bad we already know that it ends in tragedy
Why don?t we worry later and wonder where the time has gone
From our thrones of gold