ŌTHE
HOUSE THAT PRIDE BUILTĶ
TALKING INTRO (NURSERY RHYME)
THIS IS THE CRIME OF GLUTTONY
WHO HEARD FROM WRATH
WHO OVERHEARD GREED
WHO TALKED TO ENVY
WHO MARRIED SLOTH
AND SLEPT WITH LUST
CAUSE HER DISGUST
WHO LIVED IN THE HOUSE THAT PRIDE
BUILT
CHORUS
THIS IS THE TALE OF THE HOUSE THAT
PRIDE BUILT
THE ONE WHOM NOWHERE IN HIS HEART
THERE LIES GUILT
DESTROYING LIVES IS HIS AIM AND
CLAIM TO FAME
JUST LIKE ITÕS A GAME, ITÕS HIS
JOY, PRIDE IS HIS NAME
HE LIKES TO BRING DESTRUCTION,
STAND BACK AND WATCH
SO HIS BELT OF DECEIT HE CAN ADD
ANOTHER NOTCH
SEEKING PRAISE SINCE THE DAY PRIDE
FELL FROM HEAVEN
PROUD FROM WHAT HE DID TO THE
DEADLY SINS OF SEVEN
ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS A
WIFE, HER NAME WAS LUST
WHO WAS EASY TO LOOK AT, BUT VERY
HARD TO TRUST
SHE USED TO ONLY HAVE EYES FOR HER
HUSBAND BEFORE
BUT NOW THE FEELINGÕS GONE AFTER
FIVE YEARS OR MORE
THE DESIRES OF HER HEART WOULD
NEVER LEAVE HER SATISFIED
LUSTING OVER THINGS SHE NEVER
COULD HAVE, BUT ALWAYS TRIED
SHE SAID HOW SUDDENLY MY HUSBAND
HAS NO LOVE FOR ME
AND HE LET HIMSELF GO, HIS NAME
WAS GLUTTONY
GLUTTONY STARTED GETTING DEPRESSED
FROM HER ASSUMPTION
AND TRIED TO HIDE HIS PAIN THROUGH
ALCOHOL AND FOOD CONSUMPTION
HE PICKED UP SOME WEIGHT CAUSE
EATING WAS HIS ONLY AIM
THIS MADE LUSTÕS DESIRE FOR HIM NO
LONGER THE SAME
SHE SHARED THESE FEELINGS WITH HER
MALE FRIEND, HIS NAME WAS ENVY
JEALOUS OF GLUTTONY, HEÕD SAY I
WISH LUST WAS WITH ME
THIS OPENED UP THE DOOR FOR WHAT
WAS GONNA TAKE PLACE
A SERIES OF EVENTS LUST WISH SHE
COULD ERASE
VERSE 2
ENVY KEPT SAYING HOW GLUTTONY WAS
LUCKY
AND HOW UNSATISFIED HIS FRIEND
LUST NOW MUST BE
HIS MARRIAGE WAS NO BETTER WITH
THOUGHTS OF RUNNING OFF
FROM LACK OF ATTENTION FROM HIS
WIFE, HER NAME WAS SLOTH
SLOTH WAS LAZY, WANTING TO SLEEP
THE WHOLE DAY THROUGH
NEVER RESPONDED TO THE THINGS ENVY
WANTED TO DO
ENVY HAD A NEED IN WHICH SLOTH
NEVER TOOK HEED
HE HAD ANOTHER FRIEND HEÕD TALK
TO, HIS NAME WAS GREED
GREED WAS KIND OF STINGY, SELFISH
TO THE CORE
HAD NO NEED FOR ANYTHING, HOWEVER
WANTED MORE
GREED BEGAN TO ENCOURAGE ENVY,
SHARING HIS VIEW
SAYING, HAVE AN AFFAIR WITH LUST,
BE GREEDY, THATÕS WHAT I WOULD DO
SO ENVY STARTED THINKING,
DEBATING, AND CONTEMPLATING
TAKING THE CHANCE FROM ALWAYS
WAITING AND HESITATING
NEEDLESS TO SAY, ENVY AND LUST
BECAME A PAIR
NO LONGER CARED OF THE OUTCOME OF
HAVING THIS AFFAIR
VERSE 3
ENVY WAS CONTENT FROM HAVING WHAT
GLUTTONY HAD
LUSTÕS DESIRES WERE SATISFIED,
WHICH MADE HER GLAD
THIS WENT ON FOR A WHILE UNTIL
GREED CROSSED A PATH
OF SOMEONE UNKNOWN, GLUTTONYÕS
FRIEND, HIS NAME WAS WRATH
WRATH OVERHEARD A CONVERSATION ON
THE BUS
BETWEEN GREED AND ENVY, GREED SAID
HOW IS LUST
WRATH THOUGHT SOMEONE ELSE WITH
HER NAME IT JUST COULD BE
UNTIL HE HEARD GREED SAY FORGET
ABOUT GLUTTONY
LATER THAT DAY, WRATH TOLD
GLUTTONY WHAT OCCURRED
AND EVERY WORD OF THE CONVERSATION
THAT HE OVERHEARD
WRATHÕS ANGER ENTERED GLUTTONY
UNTIL IT FILLED HIM
HE SAID IF IT WERE ME, THAT ENVY
GUY, I WOULD KILL HIM
GLUTTONY SAID YOU DRIVE, WHEN SHE
LEAVES, HER CAR WEÕLL TRAIL
FOLLOWED HER TO THE HOUSE OF ENVY,
THEN WRATH YELLED
YO, THATÕS HIM, WITH HIS GUN,
GLUTTONY LET OFF SHOTS
INSTANTLY KILLING ENVY, WHILE
PRIDE LAUGHED AND WATCHED
CHORUS