Carpet Crawlers

Disc 01 - Track 10
Running Time - 05:44
Credits - Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford

There is lambswool under my naked feet
Feel is soft and warm
Gives off some kind of heat
Salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed
Imaginary creatures are trapped in birth on celluloid

The fleas cling to the golden fleece
Hoping they'll find peace
Each thought and gesture are caught in celluloid
There's no hiding in my memory
There's no room to avoid

The crawlers cover the floor in the red ochre corridor
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 on the poor

The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
We've got to get in to get out, out, out, out, out
We've got to get in to get out, out, out, out, out
We've got to get in to get out

There's only one direction in the faces that I see
It's upward to the ceiling
Where the chamber's said to be
Like the forest fight for sunlight
That takes root in every tree
They are pulled up by the magnet
Believing they're free.

The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
We've got to get in to get out, out, out, out, out
We've got to get in to get out, out, out, out, out
We've got to get in to get out

Mild mannered supermen are held in kryptonite
And the wise and foolish virgins giggle 
With their bodies glowing bright
Through the door a harvest feast is lit by candlelight
It's the bottom of a staircase that spirals out of sight

The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
We've got to get in to get out, out, out, out, out
We've got to get in to get out, out, out, out, out
 We've got to get in to get out

The porcelain mannikin 
With shattered skin fears attack
And the eager pack lift up their pitchers
They carry all they lack
And the liquid has congealed
Which has seeped out through the crack
And the tickler takes his stickleback

The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
We've got to get in to get out, out, out, out, out
We've got to get in to get out, out, out, out, out
We've got to get in to get out

Got to get in to get out (got to get in to get out) (got to get in to get out)
We've got to get in to get out (got to, got to, got to get in to get out) (got to get in to get out)
We've got to get in to get out (got to, got to, got to get in to get out) (got to get in to get out)
We've got to get in to get out (got to, got to, got to get in to get out) (get out)

The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
We've got to get in to get out, out, out, out, out
We've got to get in to get out, out, out, out, out
We've got to get in to get out