KING CRIMSON: The ConstruKction of Light (2000)

1. ProzaKc Blues
2. The ConstruKction Of Light
3. Into The Frying Pan
4. FraKctured
5. The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum
6. Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part Four
7. Coda: I Have A Dream
8. Heaven And Earth

PROZAKC BLUES
Well, I woke up this morning in a cloud of despair
I ran my hand across my head,
pulled out a pile of worried hair
I went to my physician who was buried in his thoughts
he said, 'Son, you've been reading
too much Elephant Talk'

He said, 'The thing about depression is,
well you just can't let it get you down,
you have to see the world for what it is:
a circus full of freaks and clowns
and you'll never please everybody,
it's a well established fact',
he said, 'I recommend a fifth of Jack
and a bottle of Prozac'

What can you give a man who has everything
can you give him back his edge,
can you make him want to sing?
No, you can only take from him,
and there's nothing he can do
I've got the driving me to drink and eat
a bottle of Prozac blues

Well, I woke up this morning and I shaved of my head
by the time I realized what I had done I was already dead
I went to see the gatekeeper standing by Heaven's door

he said, 'I hope you brought a good supply of... you know'

THE CONSTRUKCTION OF LIGHT
Pain, day, sky
beauty, die, black, joy, love
empty, day, life, die, pain, passion, joy, black, day, hate, beauty, die, life, joy, ache, empty, day, pain, die, love, passion, joy, black light

And if God is dead, what am I?
a fleck of dirt on the wing of a fly
hurtling to earth
through a hole in the sky

And if Warhol's a genius, what am I?
a speck of lint on the penis of an alien
buried in gelatin
beneath the sands of Venus

Time, sun, hurt, trust, peace, dark, rage
sad, white, rain, sun, anger, hurt, soft,
trust, night, rage, rain, white, hope, dark,
sacred, sun, time, trust, hurt, rage, anger, rain, white light

And if a bird can speak
who once was a dinosaur
and a dog can dream
should it be implausible?
that a man might supervise
the construKction of light

Pain, day, sky, beauty, black, die, joy,
love, empty, time, sun, hurt, trust, peace, dark, rage, sad, white, rain, hate,
anger, hope, sacred, passion, life, night,

ache, soft light

INTO THE FRYING PAN
I was just now thinking about
the jaws of life - they chew you up
spit you right back into the frying pan

And how life unwinds
around and around and up and down
you think you're fine but then
you're back in the frying pan
into the frying pan

and how life unwinds
around and around and up and down
you think you're fine but then
you're back in the frying pan
into the frying pan

and how life unwinds
you think you're fine but then
i was just now thinking about
the jaws of life - they chew you up
spit you right back into the frying pan
frying pan
the frying pan
frying pan
frying pan
frying pan

frying pan

FRAKCTURED

(Instrumental)

THE WORLD’S MY OYSTER SOUP KITCHEN FLOOR WAX MUSEUM
Hat bandana Graham cracker jackhammer in
a nail file suit your self-serviceman
the world's my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum
autographed pictures of Shakespeare fishing
gear head phone Madison Square garden hose
the world's my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum

and the chorus:
Get set get wet get fat get fit get a life
get it on get it up get it off of me
the world's my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum
get sacked get the facts get a load of this
get pissed get real get over it get it over with
the world's my oyster soup bowling ball of wax museum

Cannibal dog house plan B happy
as a lark's tongue in cheekbone china doll
the world's my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum
don't ask Y2 cake and eat it too
nothing lasts for evergreen thumbscrew
the world's my oyster soup kitchen door frame by frame

Get back slapback backtalk halfback back track talkback
back to back I'll be back to get you back
the world's my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum
get bumped get pumped get dumped get the funk
get sick get fixed get jiggy with it
the world's my oyster souffle mignon

Get set get wet get fat get fit
get along little doggiem get it off of me
oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum
get sacked get the facts get a load of this

the world's my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum

LARKS' TONGUES IN ASPIC, PART FOUR

(Instrumental)

CODA: I HAD A DREAM
Tragedys of Kennedys, refugees, AIDS disease
photos of Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and Kosovo
Tim McVeigh, Saddam Hussein, the bombing of the World Trade
hostages in Bosnia, atrocities, South Africa,
abortion and Kevorkian, Vietnam, napalm,
Lady Di, and Lennon died a violent crime, Columbine,
"I have a dream that one day...." Rodney King, O.J.,

symbols of our life and times, "One giant leap for mankind"

HEAVEN AND EARTH

(Instrumental)