Kansas - Closet Chronicles

A song written by Steve Walsh and Kerry Livgren
Artist: Kansas
Album: Point Of Know Return
Year: 1977

Lyrics:

Once carried through the current
And being swept away
The king is in the closet
He's hiding from today
And though he owns all fortunes
This room is where he'll stay
And his world is filled with darkness, turning grey

Gazing out the window
Of the 42nd second floor
He is separate from all others
No one knocks upon his door
And it might as well be raining 'cause the sunlight hurts his eyes
And his ears will never hear the children's cries

Once proud and full of passion
He fought the cause of man
Many people loved his courage
Many followed his command
He changed the old into the new
And the course of things to come
And then one day they noticed he was gone

At first it didn't matter
Nobody seemed to care
They all became too busy
To find him anywhere do no one knew hot even him

The problems he would find
On the day he journeyed deep into his mind

I close my eyes I go far away
Away from this battlefield
In my dreams well here I will enjoy it
Where innocence plays with all the laughing children
The kind who are crying right now
A taste of freedom from the pain
Of everything here I see
Life is sweet but I took it all for granted
And now I don't know if I could even tell you
Just what we permit, we allow

Allow me to forget the life I've made my own
I've held this nation in my hand
And yet it's not my home
Allow me just one answer just one reason why
Why this refugee of the family of man must die
Tell me why

Daydreams filled his nighttimes
And night dreams filled his days
Confusion and uncertainty
A puzzled mind of haze
You thought he was so powerful
And set upon his ways
Well he left us all to travel through this maze

I heard the king was dying
I heard the king was dead
And with him died the chronicles
That no one ever read
The closet's fully empty now
It's occupied by none
I'll draw the drapes now destiny is done

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Kansas
• Closet
• Chronicles
• PointOfKnowReturn
• KerryLivgren
• SteveWalsh

[n8tureboy]

Can you imagine when groups like Kansas ruled the airwaves with sophisticated music like this? What the hell has happened to music! Where have all the talented songwriters gone?

Check out these complicated arrangements, the poetry put to awesome music.

Kansas, thank you for your contribution to real art. You guys have left a legacy, and a testimony as to what music should be.

[Isihuber]

so powerful - this is true genius. there is nothing else to say about this song

[wav96]

I was there when groups like Kansas ruled music. I saw them 3 times in concert. What art, what respect, what imagination, what a gift. Thank You Kansas and thank God I was reared in a time where this was.

[WintersWar]

Daydreams filled his nighttimes And night dreams filled his days Confusion and uncertainty

A puzzled mind of haze you thought he was so powerful

And set upon his ways Well he left us all to travel through this maze.

What a tribute to great howard hughes. beautiful music, great band, best album cover art.

[vince19621]

Never heard this on Canadian radio.Too bad i still have the vinyl album of it.Great great song.In fact the whole album.Never bought albums for just one song.

[latinobazaar]

Music video distroyed real music. Think about this. How many artist had great music but maybe the artist was not so great to look at on TV?

[ravnock]

vaya flipao el del primer comentario XD

[n8tureboy]

@fraroc

Agreed. So much great music and so little time to listen to it. 19, huh? Good for you on liking this music from my era.

[fraroc]

@n8tureboy Wayward Son and Dust in the Wind are excellent songs, but Kansas encompasses SO much more than just that. Songs like Portrait (He Knew), Point of Know Return, Icarus-Bourne on Wings of Steel, Fight Fire with Fire,Magnum Opus,Incomudro, The Pinnacle, Paradox, Mysteries and Mayhem....too many to name...And another thing. I only just turned 19 and I know more Kansas than anyone I ever knew.

[n8tureboy]

@fraroc

Sad, isn't it?

[fraroc]

@n8tureboy I hear you!! The only Kansas song all my friends know is Carry On Wayward Son!!

[rogermsw]

One of the greatest prog tracks ever written..