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02 Indoor Games (05:39)
Indoor fireworks amuse your kitchen staff
Dusting plastic garlic plants
They snigger in the draft
When you ride through the parlour
Wearing nothing but your armour-
Playing Indoor Games.
One string puppet shows amuse
Your sycophantic friends
Who cheer your rancid recipes
In fear they might offend,
Whilst you loaf on your sofa
Sporting falsies and a toga-
Playing Indoor Games, Indoor Games.
Your mean teetotum spins arouse your seventh wife
Who pats her sixty little skins
And reinsures your life,
Whilst you sulk in your sauna
'Cos you lost your jigsaw corner-
Playing Indoor Games, Indoor Games.
Each afternoon you train baboons to sing
Or swim in purple perspex water wings.
Come Saturday jump hopper, chelsea brigade,
High bender-trender it's all Indoor Games.
No ball bagatelle incites
Your children to conspire,
They slide across your frying pan
And fertilize your fire;
Still you and Jones go madder
Broken bones-broken ladder-
Hey Ho . . .
03 Happy Family (04:24)
Happy family, one hand clap, four went by and none come back.
Brother Judas, ash and sack, swallowed aphrodisiac.
Rufus, Silas, Jonah too sang, "We'll blow our own canoes,"
Poked a finger in the zoo, punctured all the ballyhoo
Whipped the world and beat the clock, wound up with their share of stock.
Silver Rolls from golden rock, shaken by a knock, knock, knock.
Happy family, wave that grin, what goes round must surely spin;
Cheesecake, mousetrap, Grip-Pipe-Thynne cried out, "We're not Rin Tin Tin."
Uncle Rufus grew his nose, threw away his circus clothes
Cousin Silas grew a beard, drew another flask of weird
Nasty Jonah grew a wife, Judas drew his pruning knife.
Happy family one hand clap, four went on but none came back
Happy family, pale applause, each to his revolving doors.
Silas searching, Rufus neat, Jonah caustic, Jude so sweet.
Let their sergeant mirror spin if we lose the barbers win;
Happy family one hand clap, four went on but none came back
05 Lizard: a) Prince Rupert Awakes - b) Bolero: The Peacock's Tale - c) The Battle of Glass Tears (including I. Dawn Song - II. Last Skirmish - III. Prince Rupert's Lament) - d) Big Top (23:22)
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By Paolo
"Lizard is a synthesis of the entire record, an authentic crucible where all the different moments of the constantly evolving Frippian/Crimsonian inspiration merge."
"Fripp himself enlightens us on what the Crimson style is: 'I suppose Crimson is a way of life.'"
By hyeronimus
Robert Fripp conceives the daring idea of creating a mini-rock symphony in several movements, like a real classical symphony.
Lizard is a true musical gem that draws from both the rigid romantic tradition and the freer jazz conception.
By Hetzer
Lizard is one of the King’s greatest achievements as well as a progressive peak with no precedents or worthy heirs.
Fripp devotes particular care to the mellotron... becoming a sort of generator of emotions, a mechanical altar that evokes delirious visions of deep unease and sinister modern charm.
By madcap
A fantastic album that may not appeal to everyone, whose tracks won’t be used for advertisements, and that you won’t hum in the shower, but if you are patient, it will give you much more than you could have ever imagined.
Perhaps these weren’t even King Crimson.
By pier_paolo_farina
"Lizard is more fascinating, more exciting than I remembered!"
"These ‘difficult’ records deserve to stay in the homes of those who occasionally really listen to them, know their genesis, and place them in context."
