El Rey (Album Version)

Did you fall from grace with the blue sky
The hollow aspirin of blood
And the wheat field graves will call you in the night like a slave
Did you fall in love with the cannon fire
And the smell of the smoldering world
In the bloody sand where lead flies like insects through the air

This is just a moment of confusion
Burns like a lighter to the sun
You calculate the simple execution by
The silent run of the numbers in our blood

You don't have to go through any more changes
It's all done now
You don't have to break the wild horses that run you
And run you down
You don't have to untangle the bells that jingle
And chime each on you
You don't have to change
You don't have to hold on to your past
You don't have to carry it down this path
It's all part of the deal

In the pitch of the night is a stranger
Strange as the shadow by your side
It calls to your mind
A face you haven't called upon for years

Once you were a magnificent fiend
Eyes like electric eels
An executioner of the highest degree
Here you are, family's sweet torturer
In the arms of a secret world
A piano plays to the vague erosion of the days

You don't have to go through any more changes
It's all done now
You don't have to break the wild horses that run you
And run you down
You don't have to untangle the bells that jingle
And chime each on you
You don't have to change
You don't have to hold on to your past
You don't have to carry it down this path
It's all part of the deal