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?
Is everybody in?
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
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Way back deep into the brain
Way back deep into the brain
Back where
there's never any pain
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
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)
<Interlude>
Not to touch the earth
Not to see the sun
Nothing left to do, but
Run, run, run
Let's 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
<Interlude>
Not to touch the earth
Not to see the sun
Nothing left to do, but
Run, run, run
Let's 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
<Interlude>
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
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
Run with me
Run with me
Run with me
Let's run
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
We should be inside by my names
We should be inside by my names
<Interlude>
Let the carnival bells ring
Let the serpent sing
Let everything
<Interlude>
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
<Interlude>
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
<Interlude>
'I am the Lizard King
Retire now to your tents
and to your dreams
Tomorrow we enter the town
of my birth
I want to be ready'