King Crimson - Lizard

Sorry for the low audio quality.

From the 1970 King Crimson's album "Lizard".

"Prince Rupert Awakes": 00:00
"Bolero/The Peacock's Tale": 04:33
"The Battle of Glass Tears": 11:07
"Big Top": 22:06

"Prince Rupert Awakes" lyrics:
Farewell the temple master's bells
His kiosk and his black wormseed
Courtship solely of his word
With Eden guaranteed.
For now Prince Rupert's tears of glass
Make saffron sabbath eyelids bleed
Scar the sacred tablet wax
On which the Lizards feed.

Wake your reasons' hollow vote
Wear your blizzard season coat
Burn a bridge and burn a boat
Stake a Lizard by the throat

Go Polonius or kneel
The reapers name their harvest dawn
All your tarnished devil's spoons
Will rust beneath our corn.
Now bears Prince Rupert's garden roam
Across his rain tree shaded lawn
Lizard bones become the clay
And there a Swan is born

Wake your reasons' hollow vote
Wear your blizzard season coat
Burn a bridge and burn a boat
Stake a Lizard by the throat

Gone soon Piepowder's moss-weed court
Round which upholstered Lizards sold
Visions to their leaden flock
Of rainbows' ends and gold
New tales Prince Ruppert's peacock brings
Of walls and trumpets thousand fold
Prophets chained for burning masks
And reels of dream unrolled...

"The Battle of Glass Tears" lyrics:
Night enfolds her cloak of holes
Around the river meadow.
Old moonlight stalks by brocken ploughs
Hides spokeless wheels in shadows.
Sentries lean on thorn wood spears
Blow on their hands, stare eastwards.

Burnt with dream and taut with fear
Dawn's misty shawl upon them.
Three hills apart great armies stir
Spit oath and curse as day breaks
Forming lines of horse and steel
By even yards march forward.

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Music

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• king
• crimson
• lizard
• 1970
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• rupert
• awakes
• bolero
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• peacock's
• tale
• battle
• of
• glass
• tears
• big
• top

[explorerr1985]

this is a dream,not just a song.

[gattinator84]

the best band of the history!

[thelahun29]

20 years ago,,,blacked out room,,,owsley and crimsom...larks tongues in aspic #1...Lizard a close 2nd....smile......nothing but the dead can take you furthur.....smile

[mainoginon]

What a precious thing¡¡¡

[artistinstinct]

AN INVENTIVE ALBUM!

[CrimsonKingl2]

i was just surviving the "song" (if you can call song this extraterrestial masterpiece) but the cornet at 16:05 fucking killed me.

[The1NOTORIOUS1]

beautiful music.

[tolealpt]

jon anderson singing

[JohnGLewis1964]

Thank you, Mr. Fripp, for all the care, all the effort, all the memories!

[JohnGLewis1964]

JGL, Addendum: Robert would go on to do very many wonderful and important albums, with various players, throughout the years.... I remember a snide comment someone made after the second album... ("In the Wake..") to the effect that: 'We are now learning that RP can do an album without Ian M.' Well, yes; our faithful guitarist, and... all others.

[JohnGLewis1964]

JGL, (Post 2 of 2)

Zismoura: You mentioned Keith (Tippet) in your short post, and he did a wonderful job on the piano. Yet *so many people* contributed on this effort of KC's, and others! If you are viewing on my "Watch Later" list, I was careful, and respectful, to mention as many various names as I could... You know, Michael Giles brother... Peter (bass) - who I believe contributed on "In the Wake..." should be remembered too... (a member of Giles, Giles, and Fripp!)