Heavy Lies The Crown - Machine Head

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

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 hear 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 and listen to the streets

The avenues and gutters give me truth to speak

I hear 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

Cause 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

Cause 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 from 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