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song list next song King Crimson: Letter C King Crimson: The Great Deceiver Daniel Dust (Improv)
(Cross/Fripp/Wetton/Bruford)
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song list next song previous song King Crimson: Deception Of The Thrush - A Beginners' Guide To ProjeKcts King Crimson: The ProjeKcts (P4: West Coast Live) King Crimson: The ProjeKcts (P2: Live Groove) ProjeKct Four: Live In San Francisco (The Roar Of P4) King Crimson: Cirkus - The Young Persons' Guide to King Crimson Live Deception Of The Thrush
(Belew/Fripp/Gunn)
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song list next song previous song King Crimson: the first three King Crimson: In The Wake Of Poseidon The Devil's Triangle
(Fripp)
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song list next song previous song King Crimson: Absent Lovers King Crimson: Three Of A Perfect Pair Dig Me
(Belew/King Crimson)
it's here I sit and rust amid this ruin and rancor like tire irons
toothy grills and car parts before me...the acid rain floods my
floorboard, burns my pores, and rots my upholstry.. once I was
worshipped, polished magnificently, now I lay in decay by the dirty
angry bay...

I'm ready to leave
I wanna get out of here
I'm ready to ride away
I don't want to die in here
I'm ready to ride

mmy skin is metallic now, no longer an elegant powder blue... my body
unhinged and sleeping in the jungle of motor block manifolds and metal
relics... what was deluxe becomes debris, I never questioned loyalty,
but this dead end demolishes the dream of an open highway...

dig me...but don't...bury me
song list next song previous song King Crimson: 1996 Live In Mexico City King Crimson: On Broadway King Crimson: Cirkus - The Young Persons' Guide to King Crimson Live King Crimson: deja VROOOM King Crimson: THRAK King Crimson: Dinosaur Dinosaur
(music by King Crimson, words by Adrian Belew)
long ago and far away in a different age
when i was a dumb young guy
fossilized photos of my life then
illustrate what an easy prey i must have been
standing in the sun, idiot savant
something like a monument
i'm a dinosaur, somebody is digging my bones

ignorance has alway been something i excel in
followed by naivete and pride
doesn't take a scientist to see how
any clever predator could have a piece of me
standing in the sun, idiot savant
something like a monument
i'm a dinosaur, somebody is digging my bones

when i look back on the past
it's a wonder i'm not yet extinct
all the mistakes and bad judgements i made
nearly pushed me to the brink
it doesn't pay to be too nice
it's the one thing i have learned
still, i made my fossil bed
now i toss and turn

i'm a dinosaur, somebody is digging my bones
song list next song previous song King Crimson: Absent Lovers King Crimson: Frame By Frame King Crimson: The Compact King Crimson King Crimson: Discipline Discipline
(King Crimson)
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song list next song previous song King Crimson: The Great Deceiver Doctor Diamond
(Cross/Fripp/Wetton/Bruford/Palmer-James)
[Fast singing]

I'm the driver of an underground train
This world to me is all the same,
Keep your houses and your kids inside,
I never know who will
drive my train to hell,
and not a soul would know!

I'm the driver of an underground train.
Many who wear the memory, the legends of my name,
Boy, it's such a simple word,
Comes from an open mind
he looked me in the face,
and he made the fatal sign.

[Ballad]

I am the driver of an underground train.
Lonely life can't bother me,
far away from wind and rain.
I come upon the station lights,
with a mighty rushing sound.
Through this amore, for the private life, I drive around.

[Syncopated part]

I'm the driver of an underground train.
Climb aboard, just climb aboard.
Your loss is my eternal gain.
Squeeze your precious body in,
before I quickly close the door.
Climb in, let's all get up.
Your life is mine, my life in yours!
song list King Crimson: Letter E previous song King Crimson: Live At The Marquee 1969 King Crimson: Epitaph Drop In
(Fripp/Lake/McDonald/Giles)
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