The Bosonids were a dynasty that have been named in modern times by their descent from Boso the Elder. "Bosonids" produced counts, dukes, bishops, and knights during the Carolingian age. Eventually they married into the royal Carolingian family and even produced kings and an emperor of the Frankish Empire.
The first great scion of the dynasty was Boso V, Count of Arles and of other Burgundian counties in the mid-ninth century. Boso rose in favour as a courtier of Charles the Bald. He was even appointed viceroy in Italy in 875. After the death of Charles' son Louis II, Boso refused to recognise both Charles' sons, Carloman and Louis III as kings of France and proclaimed himself King of Provence in 879 at Vienne, with the support of the nobility. Boso strove throughout the rest of his life to maintain his title in the face of the Emperor Charles III. He died in 887 and was succeeded by his son Louis under the regency of his wife Ermengard, a daughter of the Emperor Louis II.
Louis was adopted by Charles III and legitimised in his royal title. With this legal basis, he sought to take the place of his Carolingian relatives on the imperial and Italian thrones in 900. He was crowned in Pavia and then in Rome, but could not actually hold onto power there.
And are you alone tonight?
And are you alone every night?
It's not the way it seems, you've been working every day to just get by.
You're bursting at the seams, you've been spilling everything on yourself.
You don't know what it means to live a life that you have never seen.
And you're on your own tonight?
And you're on your own every night?
They torture and they push you, they think that they can own you but they can't.
They try to make you happy by telling you that they fired your best friend.
And are you alone tonight?
And are you alone every night?
You know that I love you, there's nothing we can do anymore.
And now we're just confused, bottled and abused in the end.
And are you alone tonight?
Hold on, I know
You think what you see is what you get, but no
And you're waiting for the feeling to show again
It's getting harder now to pretend
Fall out of love
But it's still hanging over you like your shadow
Try shake it off
Sit down and start tearing it off your toes
It's getting harder now to let it go
Oh, oh, oh
We're letting go
Oh, oh, oh
We're letting go
Hold on, I see
You give everything you have just to believe
And what you give ain't what you get
When you're crawling on your knees
Just sit there watching now, as he lets go
Oh, oh, oh
We're letting go
Oh, oh, oh
We're letting go
Waiting, watching
I know who you are
Just sit there feeling out your scars
We'll touch down soon enough
It'll fall into place
Just give it time, give it space
Give it space
Oh, oh, oh
We're letting go
Oh, oh, oh
We're letting go
Sit down and close your eyes
We're letting go, we're letting go
Sit down and close your eyes
We're letting go, we're letting go
Waiting, watching