King of the World

so the old testament is a crazy book, you know? full of wrath and vengeance and inexplicable powers of heaven. confusing stuff, to be sure.. and i never understood why the devils and demons and cast-off angels were never more successful, here on earth.

so i wrote a song about it, kind of. the rapture comes and i get passed over (i'm not that diligent on my church-going, you know) - and the angels warn me that the end is in a few days, and i should warn people. then the demons come and offer me the goods if i just keep quiet. so i do. keep quiet, that is. and i become King of the World, because the demons kept their promise. of course.

it started off on piano.. even all the odd time bits, although i couldn't really play 'em. then some acoustic guitars and bass, and mandolin.. i kinda like the mandolin on this one. then emily worked on the piano and accordion for a bit, and i wrote the lyrics and played harmonica. i think that's it.. she was thinking about violin, which i was all for, but we had too little time. oh well.. i think it came out nice.