King Crimson Cirkus (including Entry Of The Chameleons) Lyrics

Cirkus (including Entry Of The Chameleons) 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!"