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song list next song King Crimson: Letter B King Crimson: Live At Summit Studios 1972 King Crimson: the first three King Crimson: Frame By Frame King Crimson: The Young Persons' Guide To King Crimson King Crimson: In The Wake Of Poseidon Cadence And Cascade
(Fripp/Sinfield)
Cadence and Cascade
Kept a man named Jade;
Cool in the shade
While his audience played.
Purred, whispered, "Spend us too:
We only serve for you".

Sliding mystified
On the wine of the tide
Stared pale-eyed
As his veil fell aside.
Sad paper courtesan
They found him just a man.

Caravan hotel
Where the sequin spell fell
Custom of the game.
Cadence oiled in love
Licked his velvet gloved hand
Cascade kissed his name.

Sad paper courtesan
They knew him just a man.
song list next song previous song King Crimson: Vrooom Cage
(music by King Crimson, words by Adrian Belew)
Walking down the street do you stare at your feet and never do you let your eyes meet the freaks, The deadbeat addicts,
social fanatics, they're a dime a dozen and they carry guns

Halloween, every other day of the week
Living in a cage in the USA
Living in a cage in the USA
Holy smoke, somebody blew up the pope
Living in a cage in the USA

All around us the rules are changing
Taller walls and stronger cages
Nothing is sacred or too outrageous
Taller walls and stronger cages

What in the world is happening to the world?

What in the world?

Driving in your Mercades you think you're safe, but you're never safe in a world of hate with criminal minds with guns and
knives who say "gimme your ride or give your life"

Halloween, every other day of the week
Living in a cage in the USA
Living in a cage in the USA
Holy smoke, somebody blew up the pope
Living in a cage in the USA

All around us the rules are changing
Taller walls and stronger cages
Nothing is sacred or too outrageous
Taller walls and stronger cages

What in the world is happening to the world?

What in the world?
song list next song previous song King Crimson: The VROOOM Sessions Calliope
(King Crimson)
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song list next song previous song King Crimson: Sleepless King Crimson: the first three King Crimson: The Great Deceiver King Crimson: Frame By Frame King Crimson: The Compact King Crimson King Crimson: The Young Persons' Guide To King Crimson King Crimson: In The Wake Of Poseidon Cat Food
(Fripp/Sinfield/McDonald)
Lady Supermarket with an apple in her basket
Knocks in the manager's door;
Grooning to the muzak from a speaker in shoe rack
Lays out her goods on the floor;
Everything she's chosen is conveniently frozen.
"Eat it and come back for more!"

Lady Window Shopper with a new one in the hopper
Whips up a chemical brew;
Croaking to a neighbour while she polishes a sabre
Knows how to flavour a stew.
Never need to worry with a tin of 'Hurri Curri':
"Poisoned especially for you!"

No use to complain
If you're caught out in the rain;
Your mother's quite insane.
Cat food cat food cat food again.

Lady Yellow Stamper with a fillet in a hamper
Dying to finish the course;
Goodies for the table with a fable on the label
Drowning in miracle sauce.
Don't think I am that rude if I tell you that it's cat food,
"Not even fit for a horse!"
song list next song previous song King Crimson: deja VROOOM Circular Improv
(King Crimson)
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song list next song previous song King Crimson: Live At Jacksonville 1972 King Crimson: the first three King Crimson: Lizard Cirkus
including Entry of the Chameleons
(Fripp/Sinfield)
Night: her sable dome scattered with diamonds,
Fused my dust from a light year,
Squeezed me to her breast, sowed me with carbon,
Strung my warp across time
Gave me each a horse, sunrise and graveyard,
Told me only I was her;
Bid me face the east closed me in questions
Built the sky for my dawn...

Cleaned my feet of mud, followed the empty
Zebra ride to the Cirkus,
Past a painted cage, spoke to the paybox
Glove which wrote on my tongue-
Pushed me down a slide to the arena,
Megaphonium fanfare.
In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster
Bid me join the parade...

"Worship!" cried the clown, "I am a T.I.
Making bandsmen go clockwork,
See the slinky seal Cirkus policeman;
Bareback ladies have fish."
Strongmen by his feet, plate-spinning statesman,
Acrobatically juggling-
Bids his tamers go quiet the tumblers
Lest the mirror stop turning...

Elephants forgot, force-fed on stale chalk,
Ate the floors of their cages.
Strongmen lost their hair, paybox collapsed and
Lions sharpened their teeth.
Gloves raced round the ring, stallions stampeded
Pandemonium seesaw...
I ran for the door, ringmasters shouted,
"All the fun of the Cirkus!"
song list next song previous song King Crimson: Dinosaur Cloudscape
(Philip Glass)
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song list next song previous song King Crimson: The Great Deceiver Clueless and Slightly Slack (Improv)
(Cross/Fripp/Wetton/Bruford)
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song list next song previous song King Crimson: The ProjeKcts (P2: Live Groove) Contrary ConstruKction
(Belew/Fripp/Gunn)
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song list next song previous song King Crimson: On Broadway Conundrum
(King Crimson)
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song list next song previous song King Crimson: Cirkus - The Young Persons' Guide to King Crimson Live King Crimson: Epitaph King Crimson: Sleepless King Crimson: the first three King Crimson: Heartbeat King Crimson: Frame By Frame King Crimson: The Compact King Crimson King Crimson: The Young Persons' Guide To King Crimson King Crimson: In The Court Of The Crimson King The Court Of The Crimson King
including The Return Of The Fire Witch
and The Dance Of The Puppets
(McDonald/Sinfield)
The rusted chains of prison moons
Are shattered by the sun.
I walk a road, horizons change
The tournament's begun.
The purple piper plays his tune,
The choir softly sing;
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue,
For the court of the crimson king.

The keeper of the city keys
Put shutters on the dreams.
I wait outside the pilgrim's door
With insufficient schemes.
The black queen chants
the funeral march,
The cracked brass bells will ring;
To summon back the fire witch
To the court of the crimson king.

The gardener plants an evergreen
Whilst trampling on a flower.
I chase the wind of a prism ship
To taste the sweet and sour.
The pattern  juggler lifts his hand;
The orchestra begin.
As slowly turns the grinding wheel
In the court of the crimson king.

On soft gray mornings widows cry
The wise men share a joke;
I run to grasp divining signs
To satisfy the hoax.
The yellow jester does not play
But gentle pulls the strings
And smiles as the puppets dance
In the court of the crimson king.
song list King Crimson: Letter D previous song King Crimson: Live At Summit Studios 1972 The Creator Has A Master Plan
(Pharaoh Sanders/Leon Thomas - arr. Fripp/Collins/Burrell/Wallace)
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