Folly and Pride – Music Video

Today, I released a video for “Folly and Pride”. This is a beta version of the song. It was written and recorded 2 years ago for Blowup Radio’s bi-weekly challenge for songwriters to write a and record a song in 2 weeks from a song prompt provided. The prompt for the week was to write a song about “Pride”.
Ended up with “Folly and Pride”. I recorded the vocals in an Elliot Smith style. 2 separate vocal takes panned hard. This is probably not the finished version of the song. Pretty sure there is room for a full band backing here. What’s the song about? I think the lyrics tell the story well.

Lyrics

In a palace of stone
Bleached white like bone
From unrelenting beating of the sun
Old timbers groan
With the weight of all things he should have done

He filled the halls 
With art and gold
Hauled it inside
He hauled it inside
And in this tomb
He built a throne 
On folly and pride
On folly and pride
On folly and pride

Tattered and torn
Each banner sworn
To a long forgotten kingdom lost and won
How time has worn
All the colors, once so brave. But Now they run

He filled the halls 
With art and gold
And hauled it inside
And hauled it inside
And in his tomb
He built a throne 
On folly and pride
On folly and pride
On folly and pride

He filled the halls 
With art and gold
And hauled it inside
And hauled it inside
And in this tomb
He built a throne 
On folly and pride
On folly and pride
On folly and pride

He filled the halls 
With art and gold
And hauled it inside
And hauled it inside
He filled the halls 
With art and gold
And hauled it inside
And hauled it inside
It’s folly and pride
  
We fill our hearts 
Until they’re whole
And hold it inside
And hold it inside
We fill our hearts 
Until they’re full
Of folly and pride
Folly and pride
Folly and pride