KING CRIMSON: Red (1974)

1. Red
2. Fallen Angel
3. One More Red Nightmare
4. Providence
5. Starless

RED

(Instrumental)

FALLEN ANGEL
Tears of joy at the birth of a brother

Never alone from that time

Sixteen years through knife fights and danger

Strangely why his life not mine

West side skyline crying

Fallen angel dying

Risk a life to make a dime

Lifetimes spent on the streets of a city

Make us the people we are

Switchblade stings in one tenth of a moment

Better get back to the car

Snow white side streets of cold New York City

Stained with his blood it all went wrong

Sick and tired blue wicked and wild

God only knows for how long

Fallen angel

Fallen angel

West side skyline

Crying for an angel dying

Life expiring in the city

Fallen angel.

ONE MORE RED NIGHTMARE

Pan American nightmare

Ten thousand feet fun-fair

Convinved that I don't care

It's safe as houses I swear

I was just sitting musing

The virtues of cruising

When altitude dropping

My ears started popping

One more red nightmare

Sweat beginning to pour down

My neck as I turn round

I heard fortune shouting

Just get off of this outing

A farewell swan song

See you know how turbulence can be

The stewardess made me

One more red nightmare

Reality stirred me

My angel had heard me

The prayer had been answered

A reprieve has been granted

The dream was now broken

Thought rudely awoken

Really safe and sound

Asleep on the Greyhound

One more red nightmare

PROVIDENCE

(Instrumental)

STARLESS

Sundown dazzling day

gold through my eyes

but my eyes turned within

only see

starless and bible black.

Ice blue silver sky

fades into grey

to a grey hope that oh years to be

starless and bible black.

Old friend charity

cruel twisted smile

and the smile signals emptiness

for me

starless and bible black.