[Intro] [Clean Guitar] [Crowd Noise Fading In] They screamed my name Like it meant something Funny thing is... I believed them [Verse 1] Sold-out arenas Every single night Forty-foot billboards Covered in lights Private jets Black SUVs Everybody wanted something From me I signed my name A thousand times Shook a thousand hands And told a thousand lies Everybody saw the crown Nobody saw the weight [Pre-Chorus] Funny how success Can feel like a prison When everybody wants a piece of you [Chorus] KING NOTHING Sitting on a throne of ghosts KING NOTHING Surrounded by people Still alone I got everything They said I should want Now tell me Why the hell Is it never enough? [Verse 2] Penthouse view Thirty floors high Looking down On a city I don't recognize Three phones ringing Two girls waiting One more interview One more fake conversation The mirror in the bathroom Looks older than me The man staring back Looks tired of being seen [Pre-Chorus] I spent my whole life Trying to become somebody Now I barely remember Who I was [Chorus] KING NOTHING Sitting on a throne of ghosts KING NOTHING Surrounded by people Still alone I got everything They said I should want Now tell me Why the hell Is it never enough? [Verse 3] My mother still lives In the same old house Same front porch Same broken couch She asked me one Christmas "If you're so successful now..." Then she stopped talking And looked away Some questions Don't need words Some truths hurt More than they should [Bridge] [Half-Time] Another city Another stage Another hotel Another cage Another crowd Another high Another version Of the same damn lie [Breakdown] THEY WANT THE FACE THEY WANT THE NAME THEY WANT THE FIRE THEY WANT THE FAME BUT WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT AND THE ROOM GOES BLACK WHO THE HELL AM I THEN? [Final Chorus] KING NOTHING Sitting on a throne of ghosts KING NOTHING The king of almost The king of close I chased the world Until I won Then found out The race was never The point [Outro] [Crowd Noise Returning] They screamed my name Like it meant something Maybe it did Maybe it didn't But the silence afterwards... That's the part nobody tells you about
