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song list next song King Crimson: Letter H King Crimson: Live At The Marquee 1969 King Crimson: the first three 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 I Talk To The Wind
(McDonald/Sinfield)
Said the straight man to the late man
Where have you been
I've been here and I've been there
And I've been in between.

I talk to the wind
My words are all carried away
I talk to the wind
The wind does not hear
The wind cannot hear.

I'm on the outside looking inside
What do I see
Much confusion, disillusion
All around me.

You don't possess me
Don't impress me
Just upset my mind
Can't instruct me or conduct me
Just use up my time

I talk to the wind
My words are all carried away
I talk to the wind
The wind does not hear
The wind cannot hear.
song list next song previous song King Crimson: Epitaph Improv
(Fripp/Lake/McDonald/Giles/Sinfield)
???
song list next song previous song King Crimson: Epitaph Improv
(Fripp/Lake/McDonald/Giles/Sinfield)
including By The Sleeping Lagoon
(Coates)
???
song list next song previous song King Crimson: Live At The Marquee 1969 Improv
(Fripp/Lake/McDonald/Giles/Sinfield)
including Nola (Arndt)
and Etude No 7 (Carcassi)
???
song list next song previous song King Crimson: the first three King Crimson: In The Wake Of Poseidon In The Wake Of Poseidon
including Libra's Theme
(Fripp/Sinfield)
Plato's spawn cold ivyed eyes
Snare truth in bone and globe.
Harlequins coin pointless games
Sneer jokes in parrot's robe.
Two women weep, Dame Scarlet Screen
Sheds sudden theatre rain,
Whilst dark in dream the Midnight Queen
Knows every human pain.

In air, fire, earth and water
World on the scales.
Air, fire, earth and water
Balance of change
World on the scales
On the scales.

Bishop's kings spin judgement's blade
Scratch "Faith" on nameless graves.
Harvest hags Hoard ash and sand
Rack rope and chain for slaves
Who fireside fear fermented words
Then rear to spoil the feast;
Whilst in the aisle the mad man smiles
To him it matters least.

Heroes hands drain stones for blood
To whet the scaling knife.
Magi blind with visions light
Net death in dread of life.
Their children kneel in Jesus till
They learn the price of nail;
Whilst all around our mother earth
Waits balanced on the scales.
song list next song previous song King Crimson: On Broadway King Crimson: Live at Cap d'Agde, 1982 King Crimson: Cirkus - The Young Persons' Guide to King Crimson Live King Crimson: deja VROOOM King Crimson: Absent Lovers King Crimson: B'Boom King Crimson: Frame By Frame King Crimson: Discipline Indiscipline
(Belew/King Crimson)
I do remember one thing.
It took hours and hours but..
by the time I was done with it,
I was so involved, I didn't know what to think.
I carried it around with me for days and days..
playing little games
like not looking at it for a whole day
and then.. looking at it.
to see if I still liked it.
I did.

I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat..
The more I look at it,
the more I like it.
I do think it's good.
The fact is..
no matter how closely I study it,
no matter how I take it apart,
no matter how I break it down,
It remains consistant.
I wish you were here to see it.

I like it.
song list next song previous song King Crimson: the first three King Crimson: Lizard Indoor Games
(Fripp/Sinfield)
Indoor fireworks amuse your kitchen staff
Dusting plastic garlic plants
They snigger in the draught
When you ride through the parlour
Wearing nothing but your armour-
Playing Indoor Games.

One string puppet shows amuse
Your sycophantic friends
Who cheer your rancid recipes
In fear they might offend,
Whilst you loaf on your sofa
Sporting falsies and a toga-
Playing Indoor Games, Indoor Games.

Your mean teetotum spins arouse your seventh wife
Who pats her sixty little skins
And reinsures your life,
Whilst you sulk in your sauna
'Cos you lost your jigsaw corner-
Playing Indoor Games, Indoor Games.

Each afternoon you train baboons to sing
Or swim in purple perspex water wings.
Come Saturday jump hopper, chelsea brigade,
High bender-trender it's all Indoor Games.

No ball bagatelle incites
Your children to conspire,
They slide across your frying pan
And fertilize your fire;
Still you and Jones go madder
Broken bones-broken ladder-
Hey Ho...
song list next song previous song King Crimson: Absent Lovers King Crimson: Three Of A Perfect Pair Industry
(King Crimson)
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song list next song previous song King Crimson: THRAK Inner Garden I
(music by King Crimson, words by Adrian Belew)
autumn has come to rest
in her garden
come to paint the trees with emptiness
and no pardon
so many things have come undone
like the leaves on the ground
and suddenly she begins to cry
but she doesn't know why
heavy are the words that fall through the air
to burden her shoulders
caught up in the trees
her soliloguy,
"don't leave me alone"
song list next song previous song King Crimson: THRAK Inner Garden II
(music by King Crimson, words by Adrian Belew)
Rome now comes to sit
in her garden
mingling the breeze with memories
of a time when
there was a room in pale yellow hues
her room with a view
where love made a bed of happiness
in muslin and lace
sweet is the voice from far away
that speaks sotto voce and
is lingering there in the golden air
to quiet the day.
song list next song previous song King Crimson: The Great Deceiver Is There Life Out There? (Improv)
(Cross/Fripp/Wetton/Bruford)
   --- instrumental ---
song list next song previous song King Crimson: Islands Islands
(Fripp/Sinfield)
Earth, stream and tree encircled by sea
Waves sweep the sand from my island.
My sunsets fade.
Field and glade wait only for rain
Grain after grain love erodes my
High weathered walls which fend off the tide
Cradle the wind
to my island.

Gaunt granite climbs where gulls wheel and glide
Mournfully glide o'er my island.
My dawn bride's veil, damp and pale,
Dissolves in the sun.
Love's web is spun - cats prowl, mice run
Wreathe snatch-hand briars where owls know my eyes
Violet skies
Touch my island,
Touch me.

Beneath the wind turned wave
Infinite peace
Islands join hands
'Neathe heaven's sea.

Dark harbour quays like fingers of stone
Hungrily reach from my island.
Clutch sailor's words - pearls and gourds
Are strewn on my shore.
Equal in love, bound in circles.
Earth, stream and tree return to the sea
Waves sweep sand from my island,
from me.
song list King Crimson: Letter J previous song King Crimson: The Great Deceiver ...It Is For You, But Not For Us
(Cross/Fripp/Wetton/Bruford)
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