J. Sylvan - Kind of King

★ MICHAL ★
Dancing with your dick out for the lowest of the low
Servant girls and urchins should have paid for such a show
Don’t you think the crown demands a certain gravitas?
Not some temple prostitute who shakes his naked ass

What kind of king are you?
Is this cavalcade how you plan to honor yourself? Do
You have any shame?
Or respect for Israel?
What will we turn into?
What kind of king are you?

★ DAVID ★
Yes, I’ll bare myself to god, and no, I won’t repent
There’s no honor other than what we ourselves invent
Servant girl or king, the difference is a fantasy
Power is an accidеnt of human vanity

Your father Saul never undеrstood that bit
God chose me
I’ll celebrate as I see fit

What would you have me do?
Sit upon a throne merciless as stone?
Come on, you knew
Me before all this
I was no one!
War and rule were snares I fell into
I’ll do what I can do

★ MICHAL ★
Well, isn’t that convenient?
Power thrust upon a king
You were unaware so you don’t owe us anything
Call it luck or call it god, a king is now installed
Power is a construct, yes, but still controls us all

How virtuous
You’ll keep your own hands clean
By letting seeds of violence multiply, unseen

Is this king something new?
Turn your head to persecution if it strengthens you?
Kings are all the same
Better close your eyes, my lord, your ass is showing, too
What kind of king are you?

★ DAVID ★
Is this about Joab?
You can’t blame his acts on me

Did you try to stop him?
You had the authority

★ DAVID ★
I’m not my brother’s keeper!

★ MICHAL ★
Please! I’ve heard all this before
You couldn’t keep my brother

★ DAVID ★
That’s not fair! There was a war

★ MICHAL ★
So why am I here?
Some unsettled debt?
A human memento of the Lord’s regret?

What am I now to you?
Shall I be a servant girl for your rage to flow through?
Take it out on me!
After all, if I’m a servant girl, what can I do?
What kind of king—

What kind of king are you?
Who will you allow to suffer to shield yourself? True
Jonathan is gone
What will the inheritance of his love grow into?
What kind of king are you?