The Celebration Of The Lizard Lyrics

The Celebration Of The Lizard lyrics

Lions in the street and roaming
Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming
A beast caged
in the heart of a city
The body of his mother
Rotting in the summer
ground
He fled the town

He went down South and crossed the
border
Left the chaos and disorder
Back there over his
shoulder

One morning he awoke in a green hotel
With a strange
creature groaning beside him
Sweat oozed from its shiny skin

Is
everybody in?
The ceremony is about to begin

Wake up!
You can't
remember where it was
Had this dream stopped?

The snake was pale
gold
Glazed and shrunken
We were afraid to touch it
The sheets were
hot dead prisons
And she was beside me
Old, she's not, young
Her dark
red hair
Her white soft skin

Now, run to the mirror in the
bathroom
Look!
I can't live thru each slow century of her moving
I let
my cheek slide down
The cool smooth tile
Feel the good cold stinging
blood
The smooth hissing snakes of rain . . .

Once I had, a little
game
I liked to crawl back into my brain
I think you know the game I
mean
I mean the game called 'go insane'

Now you should try this
little game
Just close your eyes forget your name
Forget the world forget
the people
And we'll erect a different steeple

This little game is fun
to do
Just close your eyes no way to lose
And I'm right there I'm going
too
Release control we're breaking thru

Way back deep into the
brain
Back where there's never any pain
And the rain falls gently on the
town
And over the heads of all of us
And in the labyrinth of
streams
Beneath, the quiet unearthly presence of
Nervous hill dwellers in
the gentle hills around
Reptiles abounding
Fossils, caves, cool air
heights

Each house repeats a mold
Windows rolled
Beast car locked
in against morning
All now sleeping
Rugs silent, mirrors vacant
Dust
blind under the beds of lawful couples
Wound in sheets
And daughters,
smug
With semen eyes in their nipples

Wait
There's been a
slaughter here

(Don't stop to speak or look around
Your gloves and
fan are on the ground
We're getting out of town
We're going on the
run
And you're the one I want to come)

Not to touch the earth
Not
to see the sun
Nothing left to do, but
Run, run, run
Let's
run

House upon the hill
Moon is lying still
Shadows of the
trees
Witnessing the wild breeze
C'mon baby run with me
Let's
run

Run with me
Run with me
Run with me
Let's run

The
mansion is warm, at the top of the hill
Rich are the rooms and the comforts
there
Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs
And you won't know a thing
till you get inside

Dead president's corpse in the driver's car
The
engine runs on glue and tar
C'mon along, we're not going very far
To the
East to meet the Czar

Some outlaws lived by the side of the lake
The
minister's daughter's in love with the snake
Who lives in a well by the side
of the road
Wake up, girl!  We're almost home

Sun, sun, sun
Burn,
burn, burn
Soon, soon, soon
Moon, moon, moon
I will get
you
Soon!
Soon!
Soon!

Let the carnival bells ring
Let the
serpent sing
Let everything

We came down
The rivers and
highways
We came down from
Forests and falls

We came down
from
Carson and Springfield
We came down from
Phoenix
enthralled
And I can tell you
The names of the Kingdom
I can tell
you
The things that you know
Listening for a fistful of
silence
Climbing valleys into the shade

'I am the Lizard King
I
can do anything
I can make the earth stop in its tracks
I made the blue
cars go away

For seven years I dwelt
In the loose palace of
exile
Playing strange games
With the girls of the island

Now I
have come again
To the land of the fair, and the strong, and the
wise

Brothers and sisters of the pale forest
O Children of
Night
Who among you will run with the hunt?

Now Night arrives with
her purple legion
Retire now to your tents and to your dreams
Tomorrow we
enter the town of my birth
I want to be ready'