Asbury Park Lyrics - King Crimson

Night: her sable dome scattered with diamonds, 

Fused my dust from a light year, 

Squeezed me to her breast, sowed me with carbon, 

Strung my warp across time 

Gave me each a horse, sunrise and graveyard, 

Told me only I was her; 

Bid me face the east closed me in questions 

Built the sky for my dawn . . . 

Cleaned my feet of mud, followed the empty 

Zebra ride to the Cirkus, 

Past a painted cage, spoke to the paybox 

Glove which wrote on my tongue- 

Pushed me down a slide to the arena, 

Megaphonium fanfare. 

In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster 

Bid me join the parade . . . 

"Worship!" cried the clown, "I am a T.I. 

Making bandsmen go clockwork, 

See the slinky seal Cirkus policeman; 

Bareback ladies have fish." 

Strongmen by his feet, plate-spinning statesman, 

Acrobatically juggling- 

Bids his tamers go quiet the tumblers 

Lest the mirror stop turning . . . 

Elephants forgot, force-fed on stale chalk, 

Ate the floors of their cages. 

Strongmen lost their hair, paybox collapsed and 

Lions sharpened their teeth. 

Gloves raced round the ring, stallions stampeded 

Pandemonium seesaw . . . 

I ran for the door, ringmasters shouted, 

"All the fun of the Cirkus!" 

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