Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20150304021219/@comment-6986530-20150326061604

No, he is not. The lines from the second verse go approximately like this, and there is no indication Gear is "remembering" Gallerian's history as his own:

The previous master, a personification of greed

That his own sin, one of these days

Would personally ruin himself

Why didn't he notice that sooner?