Genesis The Carpet Crawlers

Lyrically the song tells the section of the album s story whereby rael the lead character finds himself in.

Genesis the carpet crawlers.

The carpet crawlers is a song by the english progressive rock band genesis recorded for their sixth studio album the lamb lies down on broadway. Complete your genesis collection. The song was originally from the 1974 genesis concept album the. There is lambswool under my naked feet the wool is soft and warm gives off some kind of heat a salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed imaginary creatures are trapped in birth on celluloid.

There is lambswool under my. Peter gabriel the genious of genesis performing my favourite track the carpet crawlers. For my second sight of people they ve more lifeblood than before. They re moving in time to a heavy wooden door where the needle s eye is winking closing in on the poor.

We ve got to get in to get out we ve got to get in to get out. The crawlers cover the floor in the red ochre corridor. Mike rutherford and tony banks wrote most of the music with the help of peter gabriel. The carpet crawlers heed their callers.

The carpet crawlers are sperm the red ochre corridor is the vagina needle s winking eye is perhaps the opening of the vagina or cervix only one direction is towards the waiting egg the spiral staircase is the fallopian tube the porcelain manquin is maybe the egg itself and the clincher you ve got to get in to get out. Lyrics to carpet crawlers by genesis. He returns from his mixed up memories to the passage he was previously stuck in.