Wanted to write something different from the usual sad/depressing love stuff I write and ended up writing a sad/depressing song about someone famous instead. Yep, there's an epic fail in there somewhere!
I'm not going to say who this is about. Would imagine most of you won't know who he is but he's very famous in certain circles. The title of the song is (almost) how he's referred to because he was brilliant at what he did but then just faded away into obscurity.
THE PRIDE AND SORROWThey say the brightest burns the shortest
Then they vanish out of sight
You took the world and seized the moment
Then you kissed that world goodbye
What made you
Lose faith to
All you command?
You could have
Burned brighter
Than anyone
Where was tomorrow?
The pride and sorrow
Walked into the night and was lost to the world
The warriors follow
The pride and sorrow
A voice that fell silent, no more to be heard
The pride and sorrow...
What makes a man give up his calling
At the height of his empire?
You had so much to teach the future
How many more you could inspire?
What made you
Lose faith to
All you command?
You could have
Burned brighter
Than anyone
Where was tomorrow?
The pride and sorrow
Walked into the night and was lost to the world
The warriors follow
The pride and sorrow
A voice that fell silent, no more to be heard
The pride and sorrow...
INSTRUMENTAL
A child looks at the board in wonder
He sees so many ways to win
But in the end there's something missing
And so he lets the candle dim
What made you
Lose faith to
All you command?
You could have
Burned brighter
Than anyone
Where was tomorrow?
The pride and sorrow
Walked into the night and was lost to the world
The warriors follow
The pride and sorrow
A voice that fell silent, no more to be heard
The pride and sorrow...