King Crimson is an English England rock Rock music band, founded in 1969 by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles. Typically categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, the band has in fact incorporated diverse influences and instrumentation during its long history, drawing from jazz, classical European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic rock psychedelic music , heavy metal Heavy metal music... [read more] - Indoor Games
Indoor fireworks amuse your kitchen staffDusting plastic garlic plantsThey snigger in the draughtWhen you ride through the parlourWearing nothing but your armour-Playing Indoor Games.One string puppet shows amuseYour...
- Cirkus
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 horse, sunrise and graveyard,Told me only I was...
- Lady Of The Dancing Water
Grass in your hair stretched like a lion in the sunRestlessly turned moistened your mouth with your tongue.Pouring my wine in your eyes caged mine glowingTouching your face my fingers strayed knowing.I called you lady...
- Lizard
PT 1. Farewell the temple master's bellsHis kiosk and his black worm seedCourtship solely of his wordWith Eden guaranteed.For now Prince Rupert's tears of glassMake saffron sabbath eyelids bleedScar the sacred tablet...
- Happy Family
Happy family, one hand clap, four went by and none come back.Brother Judas, ash and sack, swallowed aphrodisiac.Rufus, Silas, Jonah too sang, "We'll blow our own canoes,"Poked a finger in the zoo, punctured all the...
- Heartbeat
I need to feel your heartbeat heartbeatso close, feels like mineall mineI need to feel your heartbeat heartbeatso close it feels like mineall mine...I remember the feelingmy hands in your hairhands in your hairI...
- The Howler
Here is the angel of the world's desirePlaced on trialTo hide in shrouded alley sihouettesWith cigarette coiledTo stike at passing voicesDark and suspectHere is the howling ireHere is the sacred face of rendevousIn...
- Waiting Man
I come back...come backyou see my returnmy returning face is smilingsmile of a waiting man...I be home soon soon soonsoon cry on your shoulderyour shoulder against my burning tearstears of a waiting man...one two...
- Neal And Jack And Me
I'm wheels, I am moving wheelsI am a 1952 studebaker coupeI'm wheels, I am moving wheels moving wheelsI am a 1952 starlite coupe...En route.....les SouterrainsDes visions du Cody...Sartori a Paris...Strange spaghetti...
- Neurotica
Good morning, it's 3am in this great roaringcity full of garbage eaters ravaging parkingspots beneath my plaza window I see cheetah in theirtight skins and tired heels all-night hippo inthe diner crossing the street...
- Two Hands
Oh they're touchingThey're touching each otherThey're feelingThey push and moveAnd love each other, love each otherThey fit together like two hands...I am a facein the painting on the wallI pose and shudderAnd watch...
- Vrooom Vrooom
(Instrumental)
- Dinosaur
long ago and far away in a different agewhen i was a dumb young guyfossilized photos of my life thenillustrate what an easy prey i must have beenstanding in the sun, idiot savantsomething like a monumenti'm a...
- People
people fly people fleepeople clam and say "it wasn't me"people fish people beefpeople arm to teethyes, you've got people on the tubewalking on the moonpeople at the bottom of the seapeople in tombspeople in iglooseven...
- One Time
one eye goes laughing,one eye goes cryingthrough the trials and trying of one lifeone hand is tied,one step gets behindin one breath we're dyingi've been waiting for the sun to come upwaiting for the showers to...
- *** Sleep Eat Drink Dream
*** sleep eat drink dreamprimal tribal aplle egg vegetable eeli have a new canoe but it does not have a wheelprivate velvet animal oldsmobile mindi'm sitting in the fireplace burning up my timeprivate velvet animal...
- Inner Garden I
(Instrumental)
- Walking On Air
close your eyes and look at mei'll be standing by your sidein between the deep blue seaand the sheltering skyif we find no words to sayto the rhythm of the wavesthen we'll both surrender therewalking on airand the...
- Vrooom Vrooom: Coda
(Instrumental)
- Coda: Marine 475
Marine475, 410,400,062,1009,1097,65,Non-Marine 10,190,510,1148Motor 254Aviation545
- Vrooom
(Instrumental)
- Inner Garden II
*autumn has come to restin her gardencome to paint the trees with emptinessand no pardonso many things have come undonelike the leaves on the groundand suddenly she begins to crybut she doesn't know whyheavy are the...
- Thrak
(Instrumental)
- Radio I
(Instrumental)
- Radio II
(Instrumental)
- B'boom
(Instrumental)
- Epitaph
The wall on which the prophets wroteIs cracking at the seams.Upon the instruments of deathThe sunlight brightly gleams.When every man is torn apartWith nightmares and with dreams,Will no one lay the laurel wreathAs...
- Epitaph Including March For No Reason And Tomorrow And Tomorrow
The wall on which the prophets wroteIs cracking at the seams.Upon the instruments of deathThe sunlight brightly gleams.When every man is torn apartWith nightmares and with dreams,Will no one lay the laurel wreathWhen...
- The Court Of The Crimson King
The rusted chains of prison moonsAre shattered by the sun.I walk a road, horizons changeThe tournament's begun.The purple piper plays his tune,The choir softly sing;Three lullabies in an ancient tongue,For the court...
- I Talk To The Wind
Said the straight man to the late manWhere have you beenI've been here and I've been thereAnd I've been in between.I talk to the windMy words are all carried awayI talk to the windThe wind does not hearThe wind cannot...
- Moonchild
Call her moonchildDancing in the shallows of a riverLovely moonchildDreaming in the shadowOf the willow.Talking to the trees of theCobweb strangeSleeping on the steps of a fountainWaving silver wands to theNight-birds...
- Easy Money
Your admirers on the streetGotta hoot and stamp their feetIn the heat from your physiqueAs you twinkle by in moccasin sneakersAnd I thought my heart would breakWhen you doubled up at the stakeWith your fingers all...
- Starless And Bible Black
(Instrumental)(Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford)
- The Mincer
(Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Palmer-James)Fingers reaching,Fingers reeking.Jump for the scream,Good night, honey.You're all alone,Baby, breathing.They come better looking,But they don't come mannered.
- Lament
(Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James)I guess I tried to show you howI'd take the crowd with my guitarAnd business men would clap their handsAnd clip another fat cigarAnd publishers would spread the newsAnd print my music far...
- Trio
(Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Palmer-James)(Instrumental)
- The Night Watch
(Fripp, Wetton, Bruford)Shine, shine, the light of good works shineThe watch before the city gates depicted in their primeThat golden light all grimy nowThree hundred years have passedThe worthy Captain and his squad...
- We'll Let You Know
(Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford)(Instrumental)
- The Great Deceiver
(Wetton, Fripp, Palmer-James)Health-food faggot with a bartered brideLikes to comb his hair with a dipper rideOnce had a friend with a cloven footOnce he called the tune in a chequered quitGreat DeceiverIn the door on...
- Fallen Angel
Tears of joy at the birth of a brotherNever alone from that timeSixteen Years through knife fights and dangerStrangely why his life not mineWest side skyline cryingFallen angel dyingRisk a life to make a dimeLifetimes...
- All I Want Is An Angel
I saw her firstShe came aroundThat day my angel came to townThis is just a love song, yeahWell, her shine was white, she rode the lightShe let her wings go where they mightShe looked to be a wild one, yeahWhen she...
- Providence
(Instrumental)
- One More Red Nightmare
Pan American nightmareTen thousand feet fun-fairConvinved that I don't careIt's safe as houses I swearI was just sitting musingThe virtues of cruisingWhen altitude droppingMy ears started poppingOne more red...
- Starless
Sundown dazzling dayGold through my eyesBut my eyes turned withinOnly seeStarless and bible blackIce blue silver skyFades into greyTo a grey hope that oh years to beStarless and bible blackOld friend charityCruel...
- Red
(Instrumental)
- Eyes Wide Open
Here it comes, here comes another dayAnother decision on the wayWell here it comes, here comes a covered displayof preferences to makeWell here it comes, here comes a knock on the doorOpen it for an opportunityWell...
- Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With
And when I have some words This is the way I'll sing - Through a distortion box To make them menacing Yeah, then I'm gonna have to write a chorus We're gonna need to have a chorus And this seems to be as good as any...
- Dig Me
it's here I sit and rust amid this ruin and rancor like tire ironstoothy grills and car parts before me...the acid rain floods myfloorboard, burns my pores, and rots my upholstry.. once I wasworshipped, polished...
- Industry
(instrumental)
- Nuages (That Which Passes, Passes Like Clouds)
(instrumental)
- No Warning
(instrumental)
- Model Man
look at the signslook at the symptomslook at the slightcalm before the stormI feel the silenceI feel the signalsI feel the straintension in my headwell, what more can be said...not a model mannot a saviour or a...
- Man With An Open Heart
she wouldn't need to be a bird without a wingor be a servant to a telephone ringshe could be sleeping in the comfort of another bedit wouldn't matter to a man with an open hearthere comes right now...she could be...
- Sleepless
in the dream I fall into the sleepless seawith a swell of panic and painmy veins are aching for the distant reefin the crush of emotional waves...alright, get a hold of yourselfan' don't fight it, it's over your...
- Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part Iii
(instrumental)
- Three Of A Perfect Pair
she is susceptiblehe is impossiblethey have their cross to sharethree of a perfect pair...he has his contradicting viewsshe has her cyclothymic moodsthey make a study in despairthree of a perfect pair...one, one too...
- Cat Food
Lady Supermarket with an apple in her basketKnocks in the manager's door;Grooning to the muzak from a speaker in shoe rackLays out her goods on the floor;Everything she's chosen is conveniently frozen."Eat it and come...
- Peace - An End
Peace is a wordOf the sea and the wind.Peace is a bird who singsAs you smile.Peace is the loveOf a foe as a friend;Peace is the love you bringTo a childSearching for meYou look everywhere,Except beside you.Searching...
- Cadence And Cascade
Cadence and CascadeKept a man named Jade;Cool in the shadeWhile his audience played.Purred, whispered, "Spend us too:We only serve for you".Sliding mystifiedOn the wine of the tideStared pale-eyedAs his veil fell...
- Pictures Of A City
Concrete cold face cased in steelStark sharp glass-eyed crack and peelBright light scream beam brake and squealRed white green white neon wheel.Dream flesh love chase perfumed skinGreased hand teeth hide tinseled...
- Peace - A Beginning
I am the oceanLit by the flameI am the mountainPeace is my nameI am the riverTouched by the windI am the storyI never end.
- In The Wake Of Poseidon
Plato's spawn cold ivyed eyesSnare truth in bone and globe.Harlequins coin pointless gamesSneer jokes in parrot's robe.Two women weep, Dame Scarlet ScreenSheds sudden theatre rain,Whilst dark in dream the Midnight...
- Discipline
(Instrumental)
- Matte Kudasai
Still, by the window pane,Pain, like the rain that's falling.She waits in the air,Matte Kudasai.She sleeps in a chairIn her sad America.When, when was the night so long,Long, like the notes I'm sending.She waits in...
- Frame By Frame
Frame by frame (Suddenly)Death by drowning (from within)In your, in your analysis.Step by step (Suddenly)Doubt by numbers (from within)In your, in your analysis.
- The Sheltering Sky
(Instrumental)
- Elephant Talk
Talk, it's only talkArguments, agreements, advice, answers,Articulate announcementsIt's only talkTalk, it's only talkBabble, burble, banter, bicker bicker bickerBrouhaha, boulderdash, ballyhooIt's only talkBack...
- Thela Hun Ginjeet
Well, first of all,I couldn't even see his face.I couldn't see his face.He was holding a gun in his hand.Umm... I was thinking...This is a dangerous place..This is a dangerous place..I said, "I'm nervous as hell from...
- Indiscipline
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 gameslike not looking at...
- Coda
Tragedies of Kennedys, refugees, AIDS diseasephotos of Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and KosovoTim McVeigh, Saddam Hussein, the bombing of the World Tradehostages in Bosnia, atrocities, South Africa,abortion and...
- Heaven And Earth
(Instrumental)
- Fractured
(Instrumental)
- Larks' Tongues In Aspic
(Instrumental)
- The Construction Of Light
Pain day sky beauty die black joylove empty day life die pain passionjoy black day hate beauty die lifejoy ache empty day pain die lovepassion joy black lightAnd if God is dead what am I,a fleck of dirt on the wing of...
- Prozac Blues
Well, I woke up this morning in a cloud of despairI ran my hand across my head,pulled out a pile of worried hairI went to my physician who was buried in his thoughtshe said, "Son, you've been readingtoo much Elephant...
- Into The Frying Pan
I was just now thinking aboutThe jaws of life - they chew you upSpit you right back into the frying panAnd how life unwindsAround and around and up and downYou think you're fine but thenYou're back in the frying...
- The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum
Hat bandana Graham *** jackhammer inA nail file suit your self-servicemanThe world's my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museumAutographed pictures of Shakespeare fishingGear head phone Madison Square garden hoseThe...
- Ladies Of The Road
A flower lady's daughterAs sweet as holy waterSaid: "I'm the school reporterPlease teach me", well I taught her.Two fingered levi'd sisterSaid, "Peace", I stopped I kissed her.Said, "I'm a male resister",I smiled and...
- Formentera Lady
Houses iced in whitewash guard a pale shore-lineCornered by the cactus and the pine.Here I wander where sweet sage and strange herbs growDown a sun-baked crumpled stony road.Dusty wheels leaning rusting in the...
- The Letters
With quill and silver knifeShe carved a poison penWrote to her lover's wife:"Your husband's seed has fed my flesh".As if a leper's faceThat tainted letter gracedThe wife with choke-stone throatRan to the day with...
- Islands
Earth, stream and tree encircled by seaWaves sweep the sand from my island.My sunsets fade.Field and glade wait only for rainGrain after grain love erodes myHigh weathered walls which fend off the tideCradle the...
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