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- @BEGIN_FILE_ID.DIZTHE AMERICAN NIGHT - THE CELEBRATION OF
- THE LIZARD
-
- - JIM MORRISON -
- @END_FILE_ID.DIZ
- static const char Lizard[] =
- {
- "Lions in the street & roaming\n"
- "Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming\n"
- "A beast caged in the heart of a city\n\n"
- "The body of his mother\n"
- "Rotting in the summer ground.\n"
- "He fled the town.\n\n"
- "He went down South\n"
- "And crossed the border\n"
- "Left the chaos & disorder\n"
- "Back there\n"
- "Over his shoulder.\n\n"
- "One morning he awoke in a green hotel\n"
- "W/a strange creature groaning beside him.\n"
- "Sweat oozed from its shiny skin.\n\n"
- "Is everybody in ? [3]\n\n"
- "The ceremony is about to begin.\n\n"
- "Wake up!\n"
- "You can`t remember where it was.\n"
- "Had this dream stopped ?\n"
- "The snake was pale gold glazed & shrunken.\n"
- "We were afraid to touch it.\n"
- "The sheets were hot dead prisons.\n"
- "And she was beside me, old,\n"
- "She`s, no: young.\n"
- "Her dark red hair.\n"
- "The white soft skin.\n"
- "Now, run to the mirror in the bathroom,\n"
- "Look!\n"
- "She`s coming in here.\n"
- "I can`t live thru each slow century\n"
- " of her moving.\n"
- "I let my cheeck slide down\n"
- "The cool smooth tile\n"
- "Feel the good cold stinging blood.\n"
- "The smooth hissing snakes\n"
- " of rain...\n\n"
- "Once i had, a little game\n"
- "I liked to crawl, back into my brain\n"
- "I think you know, the game i mean\n"
- "I mean the game, called 'go insane'\n\n"
- "Now you should try, this little game\n"
- "Just close your eyes, forget your name\n"
- "forget the world, forget the people\n"
- "and we`ll erect, a different steeple.\n\n"
- "This little game, is fun to do.\n"
- "Just close your eyes, no way to lose\n"
- "And I`m right there, I`m going too\n"
- "Release control, we`re breaking Thru\n\n"
- "Burrow back into the brain\n"
- "Way back past the ralm of pain\n"
- "Back where there`s never any rain\n\n"
- "And the rain falls gently on the town.\n"
- "And over the heads of all of us\n"
- "And the labyrinth of streams\n"
- "Beneath, the quiet unearthly presence of\n"
- "Nervous hill dwellers in the gentle hills around,\n"
- "Reptiles abounding\n"
- "Fossils, caves, cool air heights.\n\n"
- "(Each house repeats a mold,\n"
- " Windows rolled, beast car\n"
- " locked in against morning.\n\n"
- "All now sleeping, rugs silent,\n"
- " Mirrors vacant, dust blind\n"
- " under the beds\n\n"
- "Of lawful couples wound\n"
- " in sheets & daughters,\n"
- " smug w/semen, eyes\n"
- " in their nipples.)\n\n"
- "Wait!\n\n"
- "There`s been a slaughter here.\n\n"
- " (siren)\n\n"
- " (Don`t stop to speak or look around\n"
- " Your gloves & fan are on the ground\n"
- " We`re getting out of town\n"
- " We`re going on the run\n"
- " And you`re the one I want to come)\n\n"
- "Not to touch the earth\n"
- "Not to see the sun\n"
- "Nothing left to do,\n"
- "But run, run, run\n"
- "Let`s run\n\n"
- "House upon the hill\n"
- "Moon is lying still\n"
- "Shadows of the trees\n"
- "Witnessing the wild breeze\n"
- "C`mon baby\n"
- "Run w/me\n"
- "Let`s run\n\n"
- "The mansion is warm at the top of the hill\n"
- "Rich are the rooms & the comforts there\n"
- "Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs\n"
- "& you won`t know a thing till you get inside.\n\n"
- "Dead president`s corpse in the driver`s car\n"
- "The engine runs on glue and tar\n"
- "C`mon along, we`re not going very far\n"
- "To the East to meet the Czar.\n\n"
- "Some outlaws lived by the side of the lake\n"
- "The minister`s daughter`s in love w/the snake\n"
- "Who lives in a well by the side of the road\n"
- "Wake up, girl, we`re almost home.\n\n"
- "Sun Sun Sun\n"
- "Burn Burn Burn\n"
- "Soon Soon Soon\n\n"
- "Moon-Moon-Moon\n"
- "I will get you\n"
- "Soon\n"
- "Soon\n"
- "Soon!\n\n"
- " (Scream)\n\n"
- "Let the carnival bells ring.\n"
- "Let the serpent sing\n"
- "Let everything\n\n"
- " (Bells)\n\n"
- " Fade\n"
- " Desert Night\n"
- " Voices of the Fire\n\n"
- "'We came down the rivers & highways\n"
- "We came down from forests & falls\n"
- "We came down from Carson & Springfield\n"
- "We came down from Phoenix enthralled\n\n"
- "And i can tell you the names of the Kingdom\n"
- "I can tell you the things that you know\n"
- "Listening for a fistful of silence\n"
- "Climbing valleys into the shade'\n\n"
- " Sounds of the Fire\n"
- " (whistles, rattlesnakes, castanets)\n\n"
- "'I am the Lizard King\n"
- "I can do anything\n"
- "I can make the earth stop in its tracks\n"
- "I made the blue cars go away.\n\n"
- "For seven years i dwelt\n"
- "in the loose palace of exile\n"
- "Playing strange games\n"
- "w/the girls of the island.\n\n"
- "Now I have come again\n"
- "To the land of the fair, & the strong, & the wise.\n\n"
- "Brothers & sisters of the pale forest\n"
- "O Children of Night\n"
- "Who among you will run w/the hunt ?\n\n"
- " - Cries of assent -\n\n"
- "Now Night arrives with her purple legion.\n"
- "Retire now to your tents & to your dreams.\n"
- "Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth.\n"
- "I want to be ready.'\n\n"
- " |\n\n"
- " M U S I C\n\n"
- " - F A D E -\n\n"
- " E N D\n\n"
- " |\n\n"
- };
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