Heavy Lies the Crown

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. I feel their envy, heavy lies the crown! 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. I feel their envy, heavy lies the crown! 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. I feel their envy, heavy lies the crown! Call me the spider king, these fiends show no respect. Their blinded loyalties, the balance that I check. I hear them sharpen knives behind my back. A moment frozen, let them open fire. See the hatred that burns through my eyes, and remember the pain I’ll inflict on you. Before the dawn, suffer my vengeance! Suffer my vengeance! 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 sting, 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. 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 made out on the battleground through history resound. The weight would crush you down because heavy lies the crown. Heavy lies the crown! 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, because heavy lies the crown. 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. 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!