Lyrics: Guilty of Greed


Guilty of Greed
(T. Tiihonen)

Story
This is one of the oldest songs that I've wrote. I began with just a few distinct riffs which I compiled onto the complete song. And just like Beyond the Violence this song was initially without any kind of a vocal line and I had to 'force' the vocals in there. Anyway, I like these kind of songs myself. I feel it's heavy, fast, kinda happy (!?), and it just goes on and on and on..

The lyrics themselves tell the story about the greedy man and his nature consequently takes the man to the death. He searches ancient treasures in a pyramid and his greed takes him deeper and deeper into the caves and the lust of getting rich and the feeling about finding more and more, gradually obscures his mind and he becomes a fool.So it has a great lesson for life after all...



Lyrics
Searching in pyramid
Secrets will no more hide
You may not believe it but somehow I’m sure I can deal with it.
The voice in my head stronger that before:

"Maybe we could live forever
If we knew what they did tell
There is nothing more I can read
There is nothing more to sell…"

Secrets I’ll find?
Beast within I feed
The world left behind
With glory I bleed
to death by my greed

Fame I feel, cannot stay
The lust will breed, my birds of pray
Is reason to seek more important than saving my destiny?

I found what I came here for
Still all is lost
My fate to live and die here
Too much for cost

No way for turning back now
Too late to see
I take my final breath and
Just let it be

The child in me, has ran too far
Lost my ways, the end of days
The voice in my head says: ’I never can I never will have chance again"

"I don’t want to live forever
I don’t want to hear me cry
There is nothing more I can be
I’m a thief and I must die"

 

© 2004 Darcane