KING CRIMSON - Prince Rupert Awakes lyrics
rate meA:prince rupert awakes<br>Farewell the temple master's bells<br>His kiosk and his black worm seed<br>Courtship solely of his word<br>With eden guaranteed.<br>For now prince rupert's tears of glass<br>Make saffron sabbath eyelids bleed<br>Scar the sacred tablet of wax<br>On which the lizards feed.<br><br>Wake your reason's hollow vote<br>Wear your blizzard season coat<br>Burn a bridge and burn a boat<br>Stake a lizard by the throat.<br><br>Go polonius or kneel<br>The reapers name their harvest dawn<br>All your tarnished devil's spoons<br>Will rust beneath our corn.<br>Now bears prince rupert's garden roam<br>Across his rain tree shaded lawn<br>Lizard bones become the clay-<br>And there a swan is born<br><br>Wake your reasons' hollow vote<br>Wear your blizzard season coat<br>Burn a bridge and burn a boat<br>Stake a lizard by the throat.<br><br>Gone soon piepowder's moss-weed court<br>Round which upholstered lizards sold<br>Visions to their leaden flock<br>Of rainbows' ends and gold.<br>Now tales prince rupert's peacock brings<br>Of walls and trumpets thousand fold<br>Prophets chained for burning masks<br>And reels of dream unrolled . . .<br><br>B:bolero - the peacock's tale (instrumental)<br><br>C:the battle of glass tears<br>Night enfolds her cloak of holes<br>Around the river meadow.<br>Old moon-light stalks by broken ploughs<br>Hides spokeless wheels in shadow.<br>Sentries lean on thorn wood spears<br>Blow on their hands, stare eastwards.<br><br>Burnt with dream and taut with fear<br>Dawn's misty shawl upon them.<br>Three hills apart great armies stir<br>Spit oat and curse as day breaks.<br>Forming lines of horse and steel<br>By even yards march forward.<br><br>D:big top (instrumental)
