Cirkus (Live 1971)
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 horse, sunrise and graveyard
Told me only I was hers
Bid me face the east closed me in questions
Built the sky for my dawn
"Worship", cried the clown, "I'm a TV"
Making bandsmen go clockwork
See the slinky seal cirkus policeman
Bareback ladies have fish"
Strongmen by his feet, plate-spinning statesman
Accrobatically 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
While lions sharpened their teeth
Gloves raced round the ring, stallions stampeded
Pandemonium seesaw
I ran for the door, ringmaster shouted
"All the fun of the circus"
Fused my dust from a light year
Squeezed me to her breast, sowed me with carbon
Strung my warp across time
Gave me each horse, sunrise and graveyard
Told me only I was hers
Bid me face the east closed me in questions
Built the sky for my dawn
"Worship", cried the clown, "I'm a TV"
Making bandsmen go clockwork
See the slinky seal cirkus policeman
Bareback ladies have fish"
Strongmen by his feet, plate-spinning statesman
Accrobatically 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
While lions sharpened their teeth
Gloves raced round the ring, stallions stampeded
Pandemonium seesaw
I ran for the door, ringmaster shouted
"All the fun of the circus"
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Writer(s): Robert Fripp, Peter John Sinfield
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