KING CRIMSON: Discipline (1981)

1. Elephant Talk
2. Frame By Frame
3. Matte Kudasai
4. Indiscipline
5. Thela Hun Ginjeet
6. The Sheltering Sky
7. Discipline

ELEPHANT TALK
Talk, it's only talk
Arguments, agreements, advice, answers, articulate announcments
It's only talk
Talk, it's only talk
Babble, Burble, banter, bicker bicker bicker, Broo ha ha, Boulderdash, Ballyhoo
It's only talk
Back talk
Talk Talk Talk, it's only talk
Comments, cliches, commentery, controversy, chatter
Chit-chat, Chit-Chat, Chit-chat
Conversation, Contradiction, Critisism
It's only talk

Cheap talk
Talk talk, it's only talk
Debates, Discussions,
These are words with a D this time
Dialogue, Dualogue, Diatribe
Dissention, declamation
Double Talk, Double Talk

Talk Talk, it's only talk
Too much talk
Small Talk
Talk that trash
Expressions, editorials, explanations, exclaimations, exaggerations
It's all talk
Elephant Talk
Elephant Talk
Elephant Talk!

FRAME BY FRAME
Frame by Frame
Death By Drowning
In your arms, In your arms
Analysis
Step By Step
Doubt by numbers
In your arms, In your arms

Analysis

MATTE KUDASAI
Still, by the window pane
Pain, like the rain that's falling
She waits in the air
Matte Kudasai
She sleeps in a chair
In her sad America

When, when was the night so long
Long like the notes I'm sending
She waits in the air
Matte Kudasai
She sleeps in a chair

In her sad America

INDISCIPLINE
I do remember one thing
It took hours and hours and hours and
by the time I was done with it

I was so involved, I didn't know what to think
I carried it around with me for days and days
Playing little games
Like not looking at it for a whole day
And then, Looking at it
To see if I still liked it...
I did.

I repeat myself when under stress
I repeat myself when under stress
I repeat myself when under stress
I repeat myself when under stress
I repeat.
The more I look at it
The more I like it
I do think it's good.
The fact is
no matter how closely I study it
No matter how I take it apart, no matter how
I break it down
It remains consistent
I wish you were here to see it.

I like it!

THELA HUN GINJEET
Thela Hun Ginjeet (x7)
Qua tari mei
Thela Hun Ginjeet
Qua tari mei
Heat in the Jungle streets...

Well, first of all, I couldn't even see his face..

I couldn't see his face.

He was holding a gun in his hand. Um....

I was thinking...

this is a dangerous place...

Well this is a dangerous place...

Thela Hun Ginjeet (x7)
Qua tari mei
Thela Hun Ginjeet
Qua tari mei
Heat in the jungle streets...

I said, "I'm nervous as hell from this stuff.

I thought those guys were going to kill me for sure.

Ganged up on me like that, couldn't believe it.

Look, I'm still shakin'.

Weird.

There out in the streets like that.

It's a dangerous place.

It's a dangerous place.

"So, suddenly, these two guys appear in front of me.

They stopped.

Real aggressive.

Start at me, you know.
"What's that?" "What's that on that tape?

"What do you got there?"

I said, "huh?"

They said, "What are you talking into that for?"

I said, "It's just a tape, you know"

"Well play it for me"

I said "oh, no"

I put it off as long as I could.

And finally they turned it on, you know.

They grabbed it from me.

Took it away from me.

Turned it on.

And it said, "He held a gun in his hand.

This is a dangerous place."

They said, "What dangerous place?" "What gun?" "You're a policeman!".
And the deeper I talked, the worse I got into it.

I talked, I told him... I said, "Look man, I'm not talkin'...

"It went on forever.

Anyway, I finally unbuttoned my shirt, and said,

"look, look... I'm in this band, you know,

I'm in this band you know,

and we're makin' a recording, you know.

It's just about New York City, it's about crime in the streets...

"The explanation was going nowhere, but,

Finally, they just kinda let me go, I don't know why.
So I walk around the corner, and I'm like shakin' like a leaf,

and I thought, "This is a dangerous place".

Who should appear, but two policeman

Thela Hun Ginjeet (x3)

THE SHELTERING SKY

(Instrumental)

DISCIPLINE

(Instrumental)