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Doors, The - The Celebration Of The Lizard

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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 cant 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



Now, run to the mirror in the bathroom

Look!

I cant 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 well erect a different steeple



This little game is fun to do

Just close your eyes no way to lose

And Im right there Im going too

Release control were breaking thru



Way back deep into the brain

Back where theres never any pain

And the rain falls gently on the town

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

Theres been a slaughter here



(Dont stop to speak or look around

Your gloves and fan are on the ground

Were getting out of town

Were going on the run

And youre the one I want to come)



Not to touch the earth

Not to see the sun

Nothing left to do, but

Run, run, run

Lets run



House upon the hill

Moon is lying still

Shadows of the trees

Witnessing the wild breeze

Cmon baby run with me

Lets run



Run with me



Run with me

Run with me

Lets 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 wont know a thing till you get inside



Dead presidents corpse in the drivers car

The engine runs on glue and tar

Cmon along, were not going very far

To the East to meet the Czar



Some outlaws lived by the side of the lake

The ministers daughters in love with the snake

Who lives in a well by the side of the road

Wake up, girl! Were 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?