King Crimson
The Great Deceiver
(4th disc)

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next song King Crimson: The Great Deceiver (3rd disc) King Crimson: The Great Deceiver Improv - The Golden Walnut
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next song previous song King Crimson: Nightwatch King Crimson: The Great Deceiver King Crimson: Frame By Frame King Crimson: The Young Persons' Guide To King Crimson King Crimson: Starless And Bible Black The Night Watch
(Fripp/Wetton/Palmer-James)
Shine, shine, the light of good works shine
The watch before the city gates depicted in their prime
That golden light all grimy now
Three hundred years have passed
The worthy Captain and his squad of troopers standing fast

The artist knew their faces well
The husbands of his lady friends
His creditors and councillors
In armour bright, the merchant men

Official moments of the guild
In poses keen from bygone days
The city fathers frozen there
Upon the canvas dark with age

The smell of paint, a flask of wine
And turn those faces all to me
The blunderbuss and halberd-shaft
And Dutch respectability

They make their entrance one by one
Defenders of that way of life
The redbrick home, the bourgeoisie
Guitar lessons for the wife

So many years we suffered here
Our country racked with Spanish wars
Now comes a chance to find ourselves
And quiet reigns behind our doors
We think about posterity again

And so the pride of little men
The burghers good and true
Still living through the painter's hand
Request you all to understand
next song previous song King Crimson: Cirkus - The Young Persons' Guide to King Crimson Live King Crimson: Nightwatch King Crimson: The Great Deceiver King Crimson: Frame By Frame King Crimson: Starless And Bible Black Fracture
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next song previous song King Crimson: The Great Deceiver Improv - Clueless and Slightly Slack
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next song previous song King Crimson: The Great Deceiver Walk On... No Pussyfooting
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next song previous song King Crimson: The Great Deceiver Improv - Some Pussyfooting
(Cross/Fripp/Wetton/Bruford)
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next song previous song King Crimson: The Beat Club, Bremen 1972 King Crimson: The Great Deceiver King Crimson: Frame By Frame King Crimson: Larks' Tongues In Aspic Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part One
(Cross/Fripp/Wetton/Bruford/Muir)
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next song previous song King Crimson: The Great Deceiver Improv - The Law of Maximum Distress, Part One
(Cross/Fripp/Wetton/Bruford)
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next song previous song King Crimson: The Great Deceiver Improv - The Law of Maximum Distress, Part Two
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next song previous song King Crimson: Cirkus - The Young Persons' Guide to King Crimson Live King Crimson: Nightwatch King Crimson: The Great Deceiver King Crimson: Frame By Frame King Crimson: USA King Crimson: Larks' Tongues In Aspic Easy Money
(Fripp/Wetton/Palmer-James)
Your admirers on the street
Gotta hoot and stamp their feet
In the heat from your physique
As you twinkle by in moccasin sneakers

And I thought my heart would break
When you doubled up at the stake
With your fingers all a-shake
You could never tell a winner from a snake
but you always make money

     Easy money

With your figure and your face
Strutting out at every race
Throw a glass around the place
Show the colour of your crimson suspenders

We would take the money home
Sit around the family throne
My old dog could chew his bone
For two weeks we could appease the Almighty

     Easy money

Got no truck with the la-di-da
Keep my bread in an old fruit jar
Drive you out in a motor-car
Getting fat on your lucky star just making

     Easy money
next song previous song King Crimson: The Great Deceiver Improv - Some More Pussyfooting
(Cross/Fripp/Wetton/Bruford)
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King Crimson: the first three (1st disc) 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: Nightwatch King Crimson: B'Boom King Crimson: The Great Deceiver King Crimson: Frame By Frame King Crimson: Larks' Tongues In Aspic The Talking Drum
(Cross/Fripp/Wetton/Bruford/Muir)
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