Greed Lyrics

"Here, too, I saw a nation of lost souls

Far more than were above: they strained their chests

Against enormous weights, and with mad howls

Rolled them at one another. Then in haste

They rolled them back, one party shouting out

"Why do you hoard?" and the other: "Why do you waste?"

A figure overshadows this realm

A god of wealth

Approaches our journey to invoke us

"Pape satan, pape Satan aleppe"

Those who avaricious deeds fueled them in life

Punish with misery and despair

Men of clergy, cardinals and popes

Betray the faith with hoarding possessions

And squander what lies before them

Boulders of immense weight akin to bags of gold

Are jousted between sinners

Arguing for eternity

"Mutual indulgence has already declined into selfish appetite; now, that appetite becomes aware of the incompatible

And equally selfish appetites of people. Indifference becomes mutual antagonism

imaged here by the antagonism between hoarding and the squandering."