These Fallen Castle Walls
Reflecting on Crumbling Kingdoms: "These Fallen Castle Walls" Meaning
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Looking out over your kingdom
Reflecting on the entirety of one's domain
As far as your eyes could see
Gazing as far as one's vision allows
Did you think that you would live forever?
Contemplating one's own mortality
Did you think you’d always be a king?
Questioning the permanence of one's rule
Your life, your love, and everything
Acknowledging the importance of life, love, and everything
Did you ever think you’d lose it all?
Considering the possibility of losing everything
‘Cause I’m standing on top of your kingdom
Positioned at the summit of the ruler's realm
On these decrepit castle walls
Observing from deteriorating castle walls
Was your kingdom as big in reality
Questioning the actual scale of the kingdom in reality
As it was inside your head?
Comparing the external kingdom to internal perceptions
You wanted a mighty empire
Desiring a powerful and vast empire
But you got crumbling walls instead
Facing the reality of crumbling walls instead of grandeur
You didn’t count on your mortality
Failing to anticipate the inevitability of mortality
As a hurdle that would make you fall
Realizing that mortality can be a significant obstacle
And now I’m standing on top of your throne
Standing atop the throne, witnessing the aftermath
And all I see are ruined castle walls
Seeing only the remnants of a once-majestic kingdom
I’m standing in your brokedown palace
Present in the now-dilapidated palace
On these fallen walls I see
Observing the fallen walls and their significance
I’m standing on the hope of your future
Occupying the space that once held hope for the future
And it’s a past long gone for me
Reflecting on a past that is irretrievably lost
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