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Kill The King Lyrics
Danger, danger the Queen's about to kill
There's a stranger, stranger and life about to spill
Oh no move me out of harm
I need a spell and a charm
Fly like the wind
I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on
Kill the King
Tear him down
Kill the King
Strike him down
Power, power it happens every day
Power, devour all a long the way
Oh no move me out of harm
I need a spell and a charm
Fly like the wind
I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on
Kill the King
Treason, treason, the spectre looms again
Treason, reason, the realm is safe and then
Oh no move away from harm
I need a spell and a charm
Fly like the rainbow
I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on
Kill the King
Tear him down
Kill the King
Got to take him crown
Kill the King
He'll role no more
Strike him dead
The people roar
Kill the King
Take his dead
Down, down, down, down
Oh, kill, oh, kill, oh, oh
There's a stranger, stranger and life about to spill
Oh no move me out of harm
I need a spell and a charm
Fly like the wind
I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on
Kill the King
Tear him down
Strike him down
Power, devour all a long the way
Oh no move me out of harm
I need a spell and a charm
Fly like the wind
I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on
Kill the King
Treason, treason, the spectre looms again
Treason, reason, the realm is safe and then
Oh no move away from harm
I need a spell and a charm
Fly like the rainbow
I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on
Tear him down
Kill the King
Got to take him crown
He'll role no more
Strike him dead
The people roar
Kill the King
Take his dead
Down, down, down, down
Oh, kill, oh, kill, oh, oh
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Ritchie Blackmore wrote this song about 70's guitar legend Cakes Allison. Ritchie was very jealous of his amazing technical ability and saw him as a threat, hence "Kill the King".
Someone told me this was about a chess game (King, Queen, pawn) but it could be they're using it to depict another meaning.
Its using a chess game as a metaphor for something, not sure what
The best song on the album!!!!!!!!!!!! Kill the King could be a song influenced by history... The lyrics of this song are similar to the events on France at the end of the 18th. The Storming of the Bastille Prision in 1791 preceded the attempted escape to Austria of KING LOUIS XVI ("Fly like the wind I'm no pawn, so be gone, speed on and on") The last verses are revealing the people's anger that was so palpable on the french revolution that led to the King's guillotine execution in 1793. "The people roar Kill the King Take his head" Even if it was not written intended to mean all this, it still sounds awsome, a song about resistance and freedom!