How Are the Mighty Fallen

How Are the Mighty Fallen is the eighteenth song and final song of the first act of the musical, Alan Menken & Tim Rice's King David and the tenth song of the first act of the cast album.

Lyrics
David: The beauty and glory of Israel Are senselessly slain, are surely destroyed Cut down in the mountains, the noblest of evils The sword far too swiftly employed How are the mighty fallen? How are the mighty fallen?

The many who persecute Israel Must never rejoice, take heart, must not earn One fragment of comfort from knowing the lions Have stumbled and will not return.

And may the very mountains and fields close over The rusting weapons of war...

Daughters of saturnine Israel Weep for the king who colored your lives In gold and in scarlet, and weep for his children Jonathan... Jonathan... Who loved me more bravely than you, whether harlots or wives!

How are the mighty fallen? How are the mighty fallen?