{"id":50450,"date":"2026-01-27T12:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=50450"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:53:46","slug":"avarice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/01\/27\/avarice\/","title":{"rendered":"Avarice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nSome advice<br \/>\n(&#8230; on avarice)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nThe need to exceed<br \/>\n(Desire on fire)<br \/>\nTo feed to bleed<br \/>\n(Greed, greed, greed)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nSome advice<br \/>\n(&#8230; on avarice)<br \/>\nCheating immortals and men<br \/>\n(Doing it over and over again)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nSelf-aggrandizing<br \/>\n(Wealth vandalizing)<br \/>\nDaft grandstanding<br \/>\n(Stealth corruption)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nIn a mess of excess<br \/>\n(Desire for dire)<br \/>\nTo bleed to feed<br \/>\n(Greed, greed, greed)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Chorus]<br \/>\n[Bridge]<br \/>\n[Outro]<br \/>\nCheating mortals and gods<br \/>\n(Doing it over and over again)<br \/>\n&#8230; come on&#8230; what are your odds<br \/>\n(Of a divine sin?)<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nSisyphus founded Ephyra (later Corinth) and was known for his extreme cleverness and avarice.  As a ruler, he used ruthless, self-aggrandizing methods to boost his  wealth, while frequently cheating both mortals and gods. His actions were motivated by a desire to maintain power and wealth, which directly opposed the, often hubristic, authority of the gods.  His greed-driven, treacherous nature led to his eternal punishment. <\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/songwriter\/tag\/sisyphus\/\">Sisyphus<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro] Some advice (&#8230; on avarice) [Verse 1] The need to exceed (Desire on fire) To feed to bleed (Greed, greed, greed) [Bridge] Some advice (&#8230; on avarice) Cheating immortals and men (Doing it over and over again) [Chorus] Self-aggrandizing (Wealth vandalizing) Daft grandstanding (Stealth corruption) [Verse 2] In a mess of excess (Desire for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[4202],"class_list":["post-50450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel","category-lyrics","tag-sisyphus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50455,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50450\/revisions\/50455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}