Genesis - The Carpet Crawlers video free download


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He returns from his mixed-up memories to the passage he was previously stuck in. This time he discovers a long carpeted corridor.

There is lambswool under my naked feet.

The wool is soft and warm,

- gives off some kind of heat.

A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed.

Imaginary creatures are trapped in birth on celluloid.

The fleas cling to the golden fleece,

Hoping they'll find peace.

Each thought and gesture are caught in celluloid.

There's no hiding in my memory.

There's no room to avoid.

The walls are painted in red ochre and are marked by strange insignia, some looking like a bulls-eye, others of birds and boats. Further down the corridor, he can see some people; all kneeling. With broken sighs and murmurs they struggle, in their slow motion to move towards a wooden door at the end. Having seen only the inanimate bodies in the Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging, Rael rushes to talk to them.

The crawlers cover the floor in the red ochre corridor.

For my second sight of people, they've more lifeblood than before.

They're moving in time to a heavy wooden door,

Where the needle's eye is winking, closing in on the poor.

The carpet crawlers heed their callers:

"We've got to get in to get out

We've got to get in to get out

We've got to get in to get out."

"What's going on?" he cries to a muttering monk, who conceals a yawn and replies "It's a long time yet before the dawn." A sphinx-like crawler calls his name saying "Don't ask him, the monk is drunk. Each one of us is trying to reach the top of the stairs, a way out will await us there." Not asking how he can move freely, our hero goes boldly through the door. Behind a table loaded with food, is a spiral staircase going up into the ceiling.

There's only one direction in the faces that I see;

It's upward to the ceiling, where the chamber's said to be.

Like the forest fight for sunlight, that takes root in every tree.

They are pulled up by the magnet, believing they're free.

The carpet crawlers heed their callers:

"We've got to get in to get out

We've got to get in to get out

We've got to get in to get out."

Mild mannered supermen are held in kryptonite,

And the wise and foolish virgins giggle with their bodies glowing

bright.

Through THE door a harvest feast is lit by candlelight;

It's the bottom of a staircase that spirals out of sight.

The carpet crawlers heed their callers:

"We've got to get in to get out

We've got to get in to get out

We've got to get in to get out."

The porcelain mannikin with shattered skin fears attack.

The eager pack lift up their pitchers - they carry all they lack.

The liquid has congealed, which has seeped out through the crack,

And the tickler takes his stickleback.

The carpet crawlers heed their callers:

"We've got to get in to get out

We've got to get in to get out

We've got to get in to get out."

Comments

8 years ago

Patrizia B

Buon pomeriggio a tutti

8 years ago

rickjt62

Just who are the 26 people who disliked this and why were they here?One of the most stunning songs ever

8 years ago

Indigo Mertel

One of the best track by the Genesis. I must have listened to this hundred times when I was a teen.

8 years ago

Ronald Neves

It was 1978 or 79. I was having dinner with a girlfriend, in Cascais, Portugal, when they played Carpet Crawlers. Something very unusual happened. The whole restaurant began singing along. It was great.

8 years ago

Savvas Hatzikiriakos

I love this music

8 years ago

martin cederbro

The best albumThe lamb lies down on brodwaySeling england by the poundfrom genesis to revelationwe can´t dance

8 years ago

Steve Dwyer

Once a song is sung by the original artist, and sung well its very hard to hear others sing it

8 years ago

spanishpies

Its simply perfect. I am listening to this song tonight almost 40 years after I first heard it, and I still think that. I have grown old but this music never ages

8 years ago

53mango

I have seen Peter , Phil , Genesis , 3 times each , all together just once but it was the Lamb Lies Down On Broadway , so it counted , with Chester on drums ,the band had more oomph to their sound

8 years ago

Joshua Oakley Books

Genesis - The Carpet Crawlers

8 years ago

floyd LENNONGANDHY

One of my favorite song of Genesis

8 years ago

floyd LENNONGANDHY

We've got to get in to get out... Good thing to realise that the today's word is just a "passage"..

8 years ago

Bobe Binet

Peter THE Best !

9 years ago

King Eugene

This was the first song I got into on this album and I had a set opinion about it. Then I went through and discovered the rest of the album and this song was just so much more than it had been when I first discovered it. It was like rediscovering it all over again. 

9 years ago

Carlo Ron

The Carpet Crawlers: musica scritta da Tony Banks.

9 years ago

Andrea Domench

Mi favorito de GENESIS.

9 years ago

Jehovanny Elinor Dougall

¡Magistral!Me sigue erizando la piel como la primera vez que la escuché.

9 years ago

MILTON AUGUSTO SILVA

I agree! In this music Peter is better than Phill.But, in the digital version, the keyboards it´s not so good like the analogic version (LP). I know this music since I was a teen.

9 years ago

Debbie Benayon

I was 12 years old (1976) when I heard Genesis for the first time. I lost myself entirely to the Genius, Mr. Peter Gabriel. His voice makes me travel back in time....

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