Radzwilla - Shackles Lyrics

Shackles
(Scrooge)
Who enters my chambers this late? Ingrate
Reveal yourself before it's off to the magistrate
Digging a ditch with shackles on your wrist
I insist it's the wrong house to try to get rich
Do not make me repeat
I will call the police
You're upsetting the peace
You're resetting my sleep
Final offer. Show yourself knave. Marauder
Or I'll see you in a jail turning pale on bread and water
(Marley)
Scrooge! It's a long time no see. Nowadays I'm looking kind of ghostly
But if you would picture both these cheeks a little rosy
Maybe then you'd recognize a picture of the old me
Scrooge! You remember me, an old friend way back?
Scrooge! You remember we would work together same shack?
Scrooge! You remember both our names together same plaque?
Scrooge! You remember from my funeral laid back?
But no resting. I've been learning a lesson
All those years we wasted on investing, neglecting. Everything was less than Never count a blessing
Scrooge! Take a look at your reflection
See in life we were committed to the treasures
Now I'm indebted to the ledgers
Tethered to somewhere in the nether forever
And this will be you unless you change for better
Shackles on the leg. Shackles on the wrist
Shackled to the darkness. Drift
With shackles on the brain
Shackles on the bone
Wandering forever alone
Shackles on the leg. Shackles on the wrist
A link of the chain for every deed I missed
Before the reaper collects he comes settling debts
Make it right in this life or pay in the next
These are the chains I forged in life when I ignored my turn to right
Cause I was always man of business
Business?! Charity was business. Compassion. Forgiveness
Scrooge! Bear witness
Every time happiness came and knocked
I mocked. I balked. I closed the lock
I was never man of purpose. Worthless. Earthless
Men were merely corpses attached to purses
Walk by. Scoff as they'd rattle for change
Now I'm locked in these cuffs rattling chains
May you never live to face it
I'm death adjacent to a sea of faces
Seeing all the fruits of my life all wasted
Seeing all the joys that I could have tasted
Yearning for the man that I was erased
Just you, the guilt, and the cold encasing of
Shackles on the leg. Shackles on the wrist
Shackled to the darkness. Drift
With shackles on the brain
Shackles on the bone
Wandering forever alone
Shackles on the leg. Shackles on the wrist
A link of the chain for every deed I missed
Before the reaper collects he comes settling debts
Make it right in this life or pay in the next
(Scrooge)
Marley?
(Marley)
Scrooge! Don't speak that name!
There is nothing left of Marley. Forgotten!
Save for the chains I'm locked in from gains ill-gotten
I fear the same for anyone vain and rotten
Scrooge! Buddy, take my advice
If you're sharing my vice, you'll be wearing it twice
For the seven long years I've been serving a penance
You've been nothing but a menace to orphans and tenants
Tonight you'll be visited by ghosts. Three
The past. The present. The yet to be
Apparitions with the visions you should probably see
Lest we partner up again you'll be following me
I'm the harbinger of death
I'm the harbinger of what's next
Steady on the path of being hardened to death
Should you fail to correct this half-hazardous life of avarice
Spirits from the netherworld will answer with the
Shackles on the leg. Shackles on the wrist
Shackled to the darkness. Drift
With shackles on the brain
Shackles on the bone
Wandering forever alone
Shackles on the leg. Shackles on the wrist
A link of the chain for every deed I missed
Before the reaper collects he comes settling debts
Make it right in this life or pay in the next