Celebration Of The Lizard (LP Version)

Song Celebration Of The Lizard (LP Version)
Artist The Doors
Album Waiting For The Sun [40th Anniversary Mixes]

Lyrics

[00:38.93] Lions in the street and roaming
[00:42.46] Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming
[00:47.60] A beast caged in the heart of a city
[00:55.83] The body of his mother
[00:57.11] Rotting in the summer ground
[00:58.86] He fled the town
[01:00.74] He went down South and crossed the border
[01:05.24] Left the chaos and disorder
[01:07.48] Back there over his shoulder
[01:11.82] One morning he awoke in a green hotel
[01:16.63] With a strange creature groaning beside him
[01:22.06] Sweat oozed from its shiny skin
[01:35.15] Is everybody in?
[01:38.86] Is everybody in?
[01:43.64] Is everybody in?
[01:48.13] The ceremony is about to begin
[01:52.91] Wake up
[01:55.65] You can't remember where it was
[01:58.66] Had this dream stopped?
[02:02.18] The snake was pale gold
[02:05.55] Glazed and shrunken
[02:08.27] We were afraid to touch it
[02:11.74] The sheets were hot dead prisons
[02:19.97] And she was beside me
[02:25.07] Old, she's not, young
[02:37.53] Her dark white hair
[02:41.52] Her white soft skin
[02:44.82] Now, run to the mirror in the bathroom
[02:47.48] Look!
[02:48.73] She's coming in here
[02:50.64] I can't live through each slow century of her moving
[02:57.22] I let my cheek slide down
[03:00.54] The cool smooth tile
[03:06.26] Feel the good cold stinging blood
[03:13.08] The smooth hissing snakes of rain
[03:44.27] Once I had, a little game
[03:49.05] I liked to crawl back into my brain
[03:54.25] I think you know the game I mean
[03:59.40] I mean the game called 'go insane'
[04:04.85] Now, you should try this little game
[04:10.16] Just close your eyes, forget your name
[04:15.59] Forget the world, forget the people
[04:21.21] And we'll erect a different steeple
[04:26.48] This little game is fun to do
[04:31.21] Just close your eyes, no way to lose
[04:36.52] And I'm right here, I'm going too
[04:42.11] Release control, we're breaking through, yeah
[04:48.14] Uhh
[05:29.44] Way back deep into the brain
[05:38.58] Way back past the realm of pain
[05:49.34] Back where there's never any rain
[05:59.32] And in the labyrinth of streams beneath
[06:06.22] The quiet unearthly presence of gentle hill people
[06:11.78] In the gentle hills around
[06:15.86] Reptiles abounding
[06:18.55] Fossils, caves, cool air heights
[06:36.52] Each house repeats a mold
[06:47.18] Windows rolled
[06:52.67] Beast car locked in against morning
[07:01.86] Rugs silent, mirrors vacant
[07:06.61] Dust blind under the beds of lawful couples
[07:11.45] Wound in sheets
[07:13.43] And daughters smug with semen
[07:19.39] Eyes in their nipples
[07:28.79] Wait
[07:31.27] There's been a slaughter here
[07:41.51] Don't stop to speak or look around
[07:44.60] Your gloves and fan are on the ground
[07:47.42] We're getting out of town
[07:50.42] We're going on the run
[07:53.95] And you're the one I want to come
[08:32.58] Not to touch the earth
[08:34.75] Not to see the sun
[08:37.00] Nothing left to do, but
[08:39.45] Run, run, run
[08:41.07] Let's run
[08:45.25] Let's run
[08:51.03] House upon the hill
[08:53.19] Moon is lying still
[08:55.34] Shadows of the trees
[08:57.71] Witnessing the wild breeze
[09:00.12] C'mon baby, run with me
[09:04.09] Let's run
[09:06.96] Run with me
[09:11.30] Run with me
[09:15.74] Run with me
[09:19.40] Let's run
[09:37.08] Not to touch the earth
[09:39.17] Not to see the sun
[09:41.21] Nothing left to do, but
[09:43.45] Run, run, run
[09:45.13] Let's run
[09:49.28] Let's run
[09:54.19] House upon the hill
[09:56.20] Moon is lying still
[09:58.19] Shadows of the trees
[10:00.22] Witnessing the wild breeze
[10:01.95] C'mon baby, run with me
[10:04.95] Let's run
[11:15.30] Dead president's corpse in the driver's car
[11:19.58] The engine runs on glue and tar
[11:23.40] C'mon along, we're not going very far
[11:28.02] To the East to meet the Czar
[11:39.54] The mansion is warm, at the top of the hill
[11:43.67] Rich are the rooms and the comforts there
[11:47.69] Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs
[11:51.90] And you won't know a thing till you get inside, yeah
[12:01.67] Run with me
[12:06.11] Run with me
[12:09.97] Run with me
[12:13.58] Let's run
[12:26.01] Some outlaws lived by the side of the lake
[12:30.06] The minister's daughter's in love with the snake
[12:34.03] Who lives in a well by the side of the road
[12:38.21] Wake up, girl! We're almost home, yeah, c'mon
[12:58.04] We should see the gates by morning
[13:09.69] We should be inside by evening
[14:12.93] Ohh
[14:16.04] Let the carnival bells ring
[14:20.46] Let the serpent sing
[14:25.42] Let everything
[14:52.59] We came down the rivers and highways
[15:00.37] We came down from forests and falls
[15:07.71] We came down from Carson and Springfield
[15:15.68] We came down from Phoenix enthralled
[15:37.65] And I can tell you the names of the Kingdom
[15:44.81] I can tell you the things that you know
[15:51.62] Listening for a fistful of silence
[15:59.51] Climbing valleys into the shade
[16:38.30] I am the Lizard King
[16:42.41] Retire now to your tents and to your dreams
[16:50.14] Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth
[16:56.96] I want to be ready
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