Carpet Crawlers Songtext
von Djabe & Steve Hackett

The crawlers cover the floor
In the red ocher corridor
For my second sight of people
There′s more lifeblood than before
They're moving in time
To the heavy wooden door
Where the needle′s eye is winking
Closing on the poor

Carpet Crawlers heed their callers
We've got to get in to get out
We've got to get in to get out
We′ve got to get in to get out


There′s only one direction
In the faces that I see
And it's clockwork to that ceiling
Where the chamber′s set to be
Furnaced by the sunlight
That takes root in every tree
They're pulled by the magnet
Believe them, they are free

Carpet Crawlers heed their callers
We′ve got to get in to get out
We've got to get in to get out
We′ve got to get in to get out

A mile-bender Superman
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

Carpet Crawlers heed their callers
We've got to get in to get out
We′ve got to get in to get out
We′ve got to get in to get out


The porcelain mannequin
Shed its skin, fears attack
The needle backlit from its pictures
They carry all that last
The liquid has congealed
To seep out through the crack
And the tickler takes his stickler back

Carpet Crawlers heed their callers
We've got to get in to get out
We′ve got to get in to get out
We've got to get in to get out

We′ve got to get in to get out
We've got to get in to get out
We′ve got to get in to get out
We've got to get in to get out
We've got to get in to get out
We′ve got to get in to get out
We′ve got to get in to get out
We've got to get in to get out
We′ve got to get in to get out
We've got to get in to get out