Heavy Lies the Crown

[Verse 1]

Call me the spider king

I creep along the night

I weave a web so dense

Once caught, there is no flight

So delicate the strands I weave

Around my victims taut

The terror suffocates

Their shattered afterthoughts

[Chorus]

I feel their envy

Heavy lies the crown

Heavy lies the crown

[Verse 2]

Call me the spider king

Men sharpen blades behind

Caught in the light of greed

The prize infects their minds

They fly too close to flames

Of fame and withered vanity

Like moths, they're drawn

Towards the inhumanity

[Chorus]

I hear their envy

Heavy lies the crown

[Verse 3]

And so, I send my spies

To watch the guilty seethe

Devise a twisted plot

And gently pull the strings

I slink along the boulevards

Listen to the streets

The avenues and gutters

Give me truth to speak

[Chorus]

I hear their envy

Heavy lies the crown

[Verse 4]

Call me the spider king

These fiends show no respect

Their blinded loyalties

The balance that I check

[Chorus]

I hear them sharpen knives

Behind my back

A moment frozen

Let them open fire

[Bridge]

See the hatred that burns through my eyes

And remember the pain it inflicts on you

Before the dawn

Suffer my vengeance

[Refrain]

Suffer my vengeance

[Instrumental Interlude]

[Verse 5]

So many cannons have been aimed at me

They raise the guillotine at full speed

The bayonets of men, they clash and ring

The battle's ashen strings, it recedes

The bodies burning in a blaze of heat

The screams of agony and lost pride

These men go off to die

For war and countryside

[Verse 6]

The revving engine of the war machine

Draining it as it feeds on the weak

They try to resurrect the violent seed

Into a hangman's tree of deceit

The choice is made out on the battleground

Through history resounds

The weight would crush you down

'Cause heavy lies the crown

[Refrain]

Heavy lies the crown

[Verse 7]

I smell the fear

These men disguise as their love

The hints of their betrayal

It fires my blood

So many knives have missed my back

To put me down

The weight would crush you down

'Cause heavy lies the crown

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]

Don't put me on a pedestal

I lay there for you all to see

I never wanted any war

Save me from the hate below

[Verse 7]

Envy seeps your every pore

Jealousy is your just reward

This is a warning to you all:

Don't ever try to plot my fall

I'll put you six feet in the ground

Heavy lies the crown

[Instrumental Outro]