Cirkus lyrics

Song information

Artist: King Crimson
Album: Lizard

Lyrics

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!"

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"Lizard" album track list