EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER:   Tarkus

Tarkus

a. Eruption (instrumental)

b. Stones Of Years

Has the dawn ever seen your eyes?
Have the days made you so unwise?
Realise, you are.

Had you talked to the winds of time,
Then you'd know how the waters rhyme,
Taste of wine,

How can you know where you've been?
In time you'll see the sign and realie your sin.

Will you know how the seed is sown?
All your time has been overgrown,
Never known.

Have you walked on the stones of years?
When you speak, is it you that hears?
Are your ears full?
You can't hear anything at all.

c. Iconoclast (instrumental)

d. Mass

The preacher said a prayer.
Save ev'ry single hair on his head.
He's dead.

The minister of hate had
Just arrived [too late] to be spared.
Who cared?
The weaver in the web that he made!

The pilgrim wandered in,
Commiting ev'ry sin that he could
So good...

The cardinal of grief was set
In his belief he'd saved
From the grave
The weaver in the web that he made!

The high priest took a blade
To bless the ones that prayed,
And all obeyed.

The messenger of fear is slowly growing,
Nearer to the time,
A sign.
The weaver in the web that he made!

A bishop rings a bell,
A cloak of darkness fell across the ground
Without a sound!

The silent choir sing and in their silence,
Bring jaded sound, harmonic ground.
The weaver in the web that he made!

e. Manticore (instrumental)

f. Battlefield

Clear the battlefield and let me see
All the profit from our victory.
You talk of freedom, starving children fall.
Are you deaf when you hear the season's call?

Were you there to watch the earth be scorched?
Did you stand beside the spectral torch?
Know the leaves of sorrow turned their face,
Scattered on the ashes of disgrace.

Every blade is sharp; the arrows fly
We're the victims of your armies' lie,
Where the blades of grass and arrows reign
Then there will be very little sorrow,
Very little pain.

g. Aquatarkus (instrumental)

Jeremy Bender

Jeremy Bender was a man of leisure,
Took his pleasure in the evening sun
Laid him down in a bed of roses,
Finally decided to become a nun.

Talked with his Sister, spoke in a whipser,
Threatened to fist her if she didn't come clean
Jumped on the Mother just like a brother asked
One another if the other is a queen.

Diggin' the sister she was a mister
Shouldn't have kissed her,
But he coudln't say no
Wanted to leave her couldn't believe her,
So he picked up his suit-case
And decided to go.

Bitches Crystal

Bitches Crystal
Knows how you
Twist all the lines

Fortune Teller
Future Seller of time

Tortured spirits cry
Fear is in their eyes
Ghostly images die

Witches Potion
Mixed in the ocean of tears

Mystical Powers
Emerge from the towers of fear

Tortured spirits cry
Fear is in their eyes
Ghostly images die

Evil learning
People burning
Savage casting
No one lasting

Witchcraft sadness madness
Turning in their minds

Ritual killings that swear in
The shillings to be

Heretic Priestess dwells on the
Weakness she sees
Tortured spirits cry
Fear is in their eyeblack moon

The Only Way

People are stirred,
Moved by the Word
Kneel at the shrine,
Deceived by the wine.

How was the Earth conceived?
Infinite space:
Is there such a place?
You must believe in the human race.

Can you believe
God makes you breathe?
Why did he lose
Six million Jews?

Touched by the winds,
Fears angel brings
Sad, brings a star,
Brings autumn dawn

Who looks on life itself?
Who lights your way?
Only you can say.
How can you just obey?

Don't heed the Word,
Now that you've heard.
Don't be afraid
Man is man-made

And when the hour comes
Don't turn away
Face the light of day
And do it your way

It's the only way

Infinite Space (instrumental)

A Time And A Place

There is a place, a time and a space
Just no one can trace, that no one can trace.

Somewhere a hill, where things are still
Rain water spill, just rain water spill.

Sleep in a dream of butter milk cream
You dance on a beam, dancing on a beam.

Save me from this shallow land,
Take me out of temper's hand
Drag me from the burning sand,
Show me those that understand.

Rest in shade, no sound his made,
Where silence is played, sound of silence played.

Are You Ready Eddy?

Are you ready, Eddie,
To turn out rock'n'roll?
Are you ready, Eddie,
Ready to rock'n'roll?
Are you ready, Eddie,
To give me some of your soul?

Are you ready, Eddie,
To pull those faders down?
Are you ready, Eddie,
To pull your faders down?
Are you ready, Eddie,
To turn your scully round?

Are you ready, Eddie,
To turn those faders down?
Are you ready, Eddie,
To turn those faders down?
Are you ready, Eddie,
To turn that scully round?

Well, are you ready, Eddie,
To turn your sixteen tracks on?
Are you ready, Eddie,
With your sixteen tracks?
Are you ready, Eddie?

A bit of vibing is all it lacks.

Well, vibe me Eddie,
Vibe me all night long?
Vibe me, Eddie,
Vibe me all night long.

While you're vibing me, Eddie,
Nothing can go wrong.

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