Celebration Of The Lizard Lyrics - The Doors

Lions in the street and roaming 

Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming 

A beast caged in the heart of a city 

The body of his mother 

Rotting in the summer ground 

He fled the town 

He went down South and crossed the border 

Left chaos and disorder 

Back there over his shoulder 

One morning he awoke in a green hotel 

With a strange creature groaning beside him 

Sweat oozed from its shining skin 

Is everybody in? Is everybody in? 

Is everybody in? 

The ceremony is about to begin 

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Wake up! 

You can't remember where it was 

Had this dream stopped? 

The snake was pale gold, glazed and shrunken 

We were afraid to touch it 

The sheets were hot dead prisms 

And she was beside me 

Old, she's no, young 

Her dark red hair, the white soft skin 

Now, run to the mirror in the bathroom 

Look! she's coming in here 

I can't live through each slow century of her moving 

I let my cheek slide down, the cool smooth tile 

Feel the good cold stinging blood 

The smooth hissing snakes of rain 

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Once I had a little game 

I liked to crawl back in my brain 

I think you know, the game I mean 

I mean the game, called, 'Go insane' 

You should try this little game 

Just close your eyes forget your name 

Forget the world, forget the people 

And we'll erect, a different steeple 

This little game is fun to do 

Just close your eyes, no way to lose 

And I'm right there, I'm going too 

Release control, we're breaking through 

Way back deep into the brain 

Back where there's never any pain 

And the rain falls gently on the town 

And over the heads of all of us 

And in the labyrinth of streams 

Beneath, the quiet unearthly presence of 

Gentle hill dwellers, in the gentle hills around 

Reptiles abounding 

Fossils, caves, cool air heights 

Each house repeats a mold, windows rolled 

Beast car locked in against morning 

All now sleeping 

Rugs silent, mirrors vacant 

Dust Lying under the beds of lawful couples 

Wound in sheets 

And daughters, smug 

With semen eyes in their nipples 

Wait 

There's been a slaughter here 

Don't stop to speak or look around 

Your gloves and fan are on the ground 

We're getting out of town, we're going on the run 

And you're the one I want to come 

Not to touch the earth 

Not to see the sun 

Nothing left to do, but 

Run, run, run 

Let's run, let's run 

House upon the hill, moon is lying still 

Shadows of the trees 

Witnessing the wild breeze 

C'mon baby run with me 

Let's run 

Run with me 

Run with me 

Run with me 

Let's run 

The mansion is warm at the top of the hill 

Rich are the rooms and the comforts there 

Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs 

And you won't know a thing till you get inside 

Dead President's corpse in the driver's car 

The engine runs on glue and tar 

C'mon along, we're not going very far 

To the East to meet the Czar 

Run with me 

Run with me 

Run with me 

Let's run 

Some outlaws lived by the side of the lake 

The minister's daughter's in love with the snake 

Who lives in a well by the side of the road 

Wake up, girl! We're almost home 

We should see the gates by mornin' 

We should be inside by evening 

Sun, sun, sun 

Burn, burn, burn 

Burn, burn, burn 

I will get you 

Soon, soon, soon 

I am the lizard king 

I can do anything 

We came down 

The rivers and highways 

We came down from 

Forests and falls 

We came down from 

Carson and Springfield 

We came down from 

Phoenix enthralled 

And I can tell you 

The names of the Kingdom 

I can tell you 

The things that you know 

Listening for a fistful of silence 

Climbing valleys into the shade 

For seven years, I dwelt 

In the loose palace of exile 

Playing strange games with the girls of the island 

Now, I have come again 

To the land of the fair and the strong and the wise 

Brothers and sisters of the pale forest 

Children of night 

Who among you will run with the hunt? 

Now night arrives with her purple legion 

Retire now to your tents and to your dreams 

Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth 

I want to be ready