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Glutton Lyrics
All which you possess
Devoid of value
All that you acquire
Exacerbating your life's
Decline
Dragging you further down
Into an existence in abundance
But completely worthless
Yet your gluttonous instincts
Remain
Prized possessions
Like ball and chain
Life in opulence
Hoarder of nothingness
Forever consuming
Hands forever grasping
Mouth forever swallowing
This void forever growing
Glutton!
Brimful bellies bursting
Their egregious contents
Spilling out
In rivers of waste you'll drown
Dragging you down
Gluttonous!
Devoid of value
All that you acquire
Exacerbating your life's
Decline
Dragging you further down
Into an existence in abundance
But completely worthless
Remain
Prized possessions
Like ball and chain
Hoarder of nothingness
Forever consuming
Hands forever grasping
Mouth forever swallowing
This void forever growing
Brimful bellies bursting
Their egregious contents
Spilling out
In rivers of waste you'll drown
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This song explores one of the 7 deadly sins 'Gluttony', defined as the overindulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste. The word derives from the Latin 'gluttire', to gulp down or swallow. One reason for its condemnation is that gorging by the prosperous may leave the needy hungry. These lyrics explain that existing with the soul intention only to fill a void with an excess of anything is hardly existing at all, it's worthless, your life becomes irrelevant, you become human waste essentially and you're never truly fulfilled because how could you be? It's a vicious cycle (to eat impulsively, or even reduce the goals of life to mere eating and drinking), an exercise in futility where your entire existence has been reduced to being a prisoner to your own excess & ravenousness.