There's a little black spot on the sun today

It's the same old thing as yesterday

There's a black hat caught in a high tree top

There's a flag-pole rag and the wind won't stop

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain

With the world turning [bad word] 'round my brain

I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign

But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a little black spot on the sun today

(That's my soul up there)

It's the same old thing as yesterday

(That's my soul up there)

There's a black hat caught in a high tree top

(That's my soul up there)

There's a flag-pole rag and the wind won't stop

(That's my soul up there)

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain

With the world turning [bad word] 'round my brain

I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign

But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a fossil that's trapped in a high cliff wall

(That's my soul up there)

There's a dead salmon frozen in a waterfall

(That's my soul up there)

There's a blue whale beached by a springtide's ebb

(That's my soul up there)

There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web

(That's my soul up there)

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain

With the world turning [bad word] 'round my brain

I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign

But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out

There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt

There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed

There's a skeleton choking on a [bad word] of bread

King of pain

There's a red fox torn by a huntsman's pack

(That's my soul up there)

There's a black-winged gull with a broken back

(That's my soul up there)

There's a little black spot on the sun today

It's the same old thing as yesterday

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain

With the world turning [bad word] 'round my brain

I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign

But it's my destiny to be the king of pain