Silent Muse – Salieri lyrics

Salieri

Go away
I won't allow you to bask in all this
Return to your public and leave me here in my abyss
No, you just can't take that answer
"I can help," you boast
Well face this wall
Above it all
I should hate you the most
For I've been cursed with blessings
Only you know how to use
And catch but fleeting bits of ideas
You may never lose
Have you ever been obscured
Behind another's awe
While your only achievement's been
To spin gold into straw?

So I've found a new hero in Salieri
Declaring myself as the boring layman's king
And I've found a new purpose inside his madness
Being chained by magic that would set any other free

My ears pick out the angels
My eyes do more than see
Yet what have I accomplished
With these gifts bestowed on me?
A flood brewing within me
Howls behind a tight-locked gate
My muse stays silent by its walls
Smiling with spiteful hate
Yet here you are, not drowning
Rather sailing through unknown
I don't know whether to admire
Or spit upon your throne
Why must I witness the beauty
Others are so blind to
When the result leaves me only
More lessened next to you?

So I've found a new hero in Salieri
Declaring myself as the boring layman's king
And I've found a new purpose inside his madness
Being chained by magic that would set any other free

Don't say you're sorry
Like that might just ease my pain?
I need your holy pity
Like a death-robe needs a stain
Climbing up this ladder
Missing one too many rung
The words you fling down upon me
Hide poison on your tongue

Still, worst of all it isn't you
Who should shoulder my blame
And who here is the better man?
I've yet heard you complain
And now I slander all you are
Yet to me you still pledge
I'm not some glorious underdog
Just one pushed past the edge
So just like my ill-fated bourgeois predecessor
I shall be denied my revenge