Kings

King Silas Benjamin came to power in a mythical battle against the rival neighbor republic of Gath, capitalizing brilliantly and ruthlessly on his near-godly image. Farm-boy David Shepherd performs as well, saving Silas's crown prince in another epic battle, but is too noble and naive to aspire personal benefit rather then devoutly serve king and country. Nevertheless, after Silas decides to abuse David's legend, the hero is drawn into palace intrigues culminating into coup plans against Silas.

Cast

• Ian McShane
• Susanna Thompson
• Allison Miller
• Eamonn Walker
• Sebastian Stan
• Dylan Baker
• Christopher Egan
• Wes Studi
• Darce Florio
• Marlyne Barrett
• Becky Ann Baker
• Henry Coy
• Justin Doescher
• Jason Antoon
• Joel Garland
• Michael Patrick Crane
• Steve Rosen
• Steven J. Klaszky
• Larry Gregory
• Maria Diaz
• Annette Cerbone
• Paul Weaver
• Leslie Bibb
• Macaulay Culkin

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Pilot: Goliath: Part 1
  David Shepherd: You want blood? Come here and take it. It's fresh, still warm from the life that lef...
• Episode 1: Goliath
• Episode 2: Prosperity
• Episode 2: Pilot: Goliath - Part 2
  USA:15 March 2009...
• Episode 3: Prosperity
  King Silas Benjamin: People ask how I cope with all the responsibilities - millions of souls relying...
• Episode 4: First Night
  King Silas Benjamin: That laughter at my expense?::Rev. Ephram Samuels: Merely appreciating the even...
• Episode 5: Insurrection
  King Silas Benjamin: We *will* have peace - and those who obstruct it are wolves, carving out my flo...
• Episode 6: Judgment Day
  Ethan Shepherd: I stood up to the king for what I believe; why would I want to live a life that's sa...
• Episode 7: Brotherhood
  King Silas Benjamin: The days of confusion are behind me. I know the smell of omen; I knew it once b...
• Episode 8: The Sabbath Queen
  [the city lights come back on, and Rose's cell phone rings]::Andrew Cross: Hello, Aunt Rose.::Queen ...
• Episode 9: Pilgrimage
  Katrina Ghent: I want to see you powerless, so you know how it feels - what you do to those around y...
• Episode 10: Chapter One
  Perry Straussler: [voiceover] It began with the Charter - stolen. It contained our history... signed...
• Episode 11: Javelin
  King Silas Benjamin: The secret to cooking's all in the shopping - going to the market, finding the ...
• Episode 12: The New King: Part One
  King Vesper Abaddon: You got yourself here; it's time to change - or die. You have to learn to live ...
• Episode 13: The New King: Part Two
  [the press minister has been found murdered in his car]::Jack Benjamin: Four of our generals, and no...

• Steely Dan
• The Magnetic Fields
• The Church
• Legenda
• Macklemore
• Magnetic Fields
• July For Kings
• Dan Steely
• Chasing Victory
• Church

Now they lay his body down, sad old men who run this town
I still recall the way he led the charge and saved the day
Blue blood and rain, I can hear the bugle playin'
We seen the last of good King Richard
Ring out the past his name lives on, and on
Roll out the bones and raise up your pitcher
Raise up your glass to good King John
While he plundered far and wide all his starving children cried
And though we sung his fame we all went hungry just the same
He meant to shine to the end of the line
We seen the last of good King Richard
Ring out the past his name lives on, and on
Roll out the bones and raise up your pitcher
Raise up your glass to good King John
And though we sung his fame we all went hungry just the same
He meant to shine to the end of the line
We seen the last of good King Richard
Ring out the past his name lives on, and on
Roll out the bones and raise up your pitcher
Raise up your glass to good King John
Raise up your glass to good King John

All day snow covered us
Night-time: it was always night
The people on the street were made of meat
Black girl, trucks ran us down
Blue boy...
The people on the sidewalk were traced in chalk
Whale embryos filled your enormous room
Screech-owl kachinas built your spiritual room
We were kings, kings!
We were kings, kings!

See history fade, it's crystal clear
Aurora what you doing here
Buttering the mouths of thieves
Shutter speed your bleeding leaves
In gardens in the orient
Likelihood is good and spent
Herod nods beneath the palms
Holds poor baby in his arms
Tunis and Sardinia
The oceans growing hungrier
Beneath these walls we'll sleep tonight
Beneath this sky we'll glide so bright
And kings will come, years will pass
Stars burn cold beneath the glass
And days will glow in distant time
In this storied haze the zephyrs graze
In deserts where the dust storm blows
And lush black swamps where mandrake grows
We're marching laughing to the drum
Waiting for those kings to come
And kings will come and years will pass
Stars burn cold beneath the glass
And days will blow in distant time
In this storied haze the zephyrs graze
An infant with the voice of a crone
In Nebuchanezzars parking zone
Calls out my lord your end is nigh
I didn't mean to make you cry
In deserts where the dust storm blows
And lush black swamps where mandrake grows
We're marching laughing to the drum
Waiting for those kings to come
The circus sun in Nero eyes
The lions and the Christians rise
Software sings and hardware hears

Their eyes were as a flame
Of fire and on their heads
Were many crowns they had
Names written that no man hath
Their voices were as a sound
Of many waters down and
When I saw them I fell
At their feet dead
Lo thy Kings
My sun became black
As sackcloth of hair and
The moon became as
Blood of the dead

[Hook:]
In the darkest of days
Men become kings and still die of old age
While the children become gods
At last the whole world begins to play
[Verse 1: Pearl Dragon]
My body is adorned with thorns
King with a crown of thorns
I wash my feet and kiss the ground I'm on
I wash my feet kiss the ground I'm on, I'm on
Jump niggas cause they thought I was a pawn
But knowin' I'm a king I'm about to get on
This the sirens for the quiet of the storm
Ring that alarm, R-r-ring that alarm
Yo her body was adorn adorned,
And I adored her, so much that I had to ignore her
Her body I explored it, like an explor-her
Her first name was Dora, her first name was Dora
I opened up the door and saw
My queen getting raw, getting raw
So like me beatin Resevoir Dog
Had to hit it raw, no not raw dog
I was a, hog, but I don't eat the pork
She was a swine, crippling' my time
On the cast of my pearl, yo she wasn't my girl
This wasn't reality, this wasn't my world
Like Jimi or Kurt before
King with a crown I shall be adored
Even if I have, always been ignored
I was not the norm I will not be ignored
[Hook]
[Verse 2: Thomas Gray]
Young world this the story of the kings
A nigga couldn't decide should I rap or should I sing
And since God blessed me with my wings
I'm like a lil' nappy-head Bill Russell with the rings, feel me?
Lately globetrottin' through a lotta traps
Friends become rats, I'm talkin Judas in expensive slacks
Fuck em, to tell the truth now I'm over that
Sucker 'I'll be suckers, it don't matter that you roll with pack
I steady grab my nuts and you can roll with that
Pardon my back, and the weight on my shoulders black
History's on my side, these niggas hard in they cars
But in the streets they can't look me in the eye
(Look me in the eye, look me in the eye)
(Champagne Champagne)
[Verse 3: Macklemore]
(Can I get em?)
Stand like a man, move like a legend
Talk but with action, that's how you'll be remembered
The greats learned that humility is a weapon
Sever ties with the part of you too big to learn a lesson
Sit in silence, to fight the mind and try to find the present
Cause we only get a couple chances to be epic
And I'm connected, like God plugged my headphones
Directly into heaven and told me to go and get em with this
Mic cord, I am, nothing you can tell me
They bark when they talk but they walk like the legless
The purpose of my art, is for people to respect me
I'm not a king I'm a servant to the desires that tempt me
Only way to escape the cage in a valley of roots
Be a mirror to the people when they're searchin for truth
Only way to escape the cage in a valley of roots
Claim the mirror, my people, keep searchin for you

All day snow covered us
Night-time: it was always night
The people on the street were made of meat
Black girl, trucks ran us down
Blue boy...
The people on the sidewalk were traced in chalk
Whale embryos filled your enormous room
Screech-owl kachinas built your spiritual room
We were kings, kings!

Seven strong we came
and Seven we were named
in an empire of irrepressibility
Dancing in the street
with heaven at our feet
in a circle of sustenance
And no one stopped to say
that we'd be gone someday
the reign was now
When no on cared about
finding a way out
the reign was now
was now
was now
was now
Throwing stones across
a river as we walked
a line of bliss, a clockless never neverland
Nothing stopped the dance
nothing stopped the dance
a circle, untouchable
And no one dared to say
maybe we'd fall away
the reign was now
was now
And we were kings
and we were kings
and we were kings...
And no one stopped to say
that we'd be gone someday
the reign was now
When no on cared about
finding a way out
the reign was now
And we were kings
and we were kings...
We danced and we danced
in open fields of our escape
we spun and we won
the day
we danced into the sun
we danced and we danced and we danced
into the sun
into the sun
into the sun

Now they lay his body down
Sad old men who run this town
I still recall the way
He led the charge and saved the day
Blue blood and rain
I can hear the bugle playin'
CHORUS:
We seen the last of Good King Richard
Ring out the past his name lives on
Roll out the bones and raise up your pitcher
Raise up your glass to Good King John
While he plundered far and wide
All his starving children cried
And though we sung his fame
We all went hungry just the same
He meant to shine
To the end of the line

Well please, please, oh please
I'm beggin' on my knees
Put one in the cup
I got a fatal disease
Could you help me get back on my feet?
Why don't you give me something you don't need?
Oh girl, I won't ask for your love
But if you show me some love
I'm gonna sing you a song
Going to streetlight circle my home
I'm not a king of the world
But I'm a king of the boat
And I'm falling asleep
To escape this dream
Well they call me crazy
They say I'm alone
I'm not a king of the world
But I'm a king of the streets
I'm gonna rattle your bones
Don't call me lazy
Cause I'm a dangerous man
I'm not a king of the world
But I'm a king of the streets
I guess I'm good as dead
Well I am the pharmacist
I am the dirty fiend
I've got the coldest kiss
You are embarrassed of me
I've got blood on my shoes from another man
I can't walk
Here we're sleeping
But please don't tell them this
There's no mercy in their treatment
Mercy, mercy, mercy
We take the pills
Take the pills
Mercy, mercy, mercy
It's twice the thrill
And I'm falling asleep
To escape this dream
They call me crazy
They say I'm alone
I'm not a king of the world
But I'm a king of the streets
I'm gonna rattle your bones
Don't call me lazy
Cause I'm a dangerous man
I'm not a king of the world
But I'm a king of the streets
I guess I'm good as dead
Mercy, mercy, mercy
We take the pills
Take the pills
Mercy, mercy, mercy
Lean back and take the pills
Mercy, mercy, mercy
We take the pills
Take the pills
Mercy, mercy, mercy
Lean back and take the pills
And I'm falling asleep
To escape this dream
They call me crazy
They say I'm alone
I'm not a king of the world
But I'm a king of the streets
I'm gonna rattle your bones
Don't call me lazy
Cause I'm a dangerous man
I'm not a king of the world
But I'm a king of the streets

See history fade, it's crystal clear
Aurora what you doing here
Buttering the mouths of theives
Shutter speed your bleeding leaves
In gardens in the orient
Liklihood is good and spent
Herod nods beneath the palms
Holds poor baby in his arms
Tunis and Sardinia
The oceans growing hungrier
Beneath these walls we'll sleep tonight
Beneath this sky we'll glide so bright
And kings will come, years will pass
Stars burn cold beneath the glass
And days will glow in distant time
In this storied haze the zephyrs graze
In deserts where the dust storm blows
And lush black swamps where mandrake grows
We're marching laughing to the drum
Waiting for those kings to come
And kings will come and years will pass
Stars burn cold beneath the glass
And days will blow in distant time
In this storied haze the zephyrs graze
An infant with the voice of a crone
In Nebuchanezzars parking zone
Calls out my lord your end is nigh
I didn't mean to make you cry
In deserts where the dust storm blows
And lush black swamps where mandrake grows
We're marching laughing to the drum
Waiting for those kings to come
The circus sun in Nero eyes
The lions and the christians rise
Software sings and hardware hears