Starless & Bible Black Album Lyrics

The Great Deceiver
  • (Wetton/Fripp/Palmer-James)
  • Health-food faggot with a bartered bride
  • Likes to comb his hair with a dipper ride
  • Once had a friend with a cloven foot
  • Once he called the tune in a chequered quit
  • Great Deceiver
  • In the door on the floor in a paper bag
  • There's a shoe-shine boy with a gin-shop slag
  • She raised him up and she called him son
  • And she canonised the ground that he walked upon
  • Great Deceiver
  • Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary
  • Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary
  • Cigarettes, ice cream, cadillacs blue jeans
  • In the night he's a star in the Milky Way
  • He's a man of the world by the light of day
  • A golden smile and a proposition
  • And the breath of God smells of sweet sedition
  • Great Deceiver
  • Sing hymns make love get high fall dead
  • He'll bring his perfume to your bed
  • He'll charm your life 'til the cold winds blow
  • Then he'll sell your dreams to a picture show
  • Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary
  • Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary
  • Cadillacs, blue jeans, dixieland playing on the ferry
  • Cadillacs, blues jeans, drop a glass full of antique sherry
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Lament
  • (Fripp/Wetton/Palmer-James)
  • I guess I tried to show you how
  • I'd take the crowd with my guitar
  • And business men would clap their hands
  • And clip another fat cigar
  • And publishers would spread the news
  • And print my music far and wide
  • And all the kids who played the blues
  • Would learn my licks with a bottle neck slide
  • But now it seems the bubble's burst
  • Although you know there was a time
  • When love songs gathered in my head
  • With poetry in every line
  • And strong men strove to hold the doors
  • While with my friends I passed the age
  • When people stomped on dirty floors
  • Before I trod the rock'n'roll stage
  • I'll thank the man who's on the 'phone
  • And if he has the time to spend
  • The problem I'll explain once more
  • And indicate a sum to lend
  • That ten percent is now a joke
  • Maybe thirty, even thirty-five
  • I'll say my daddy's had a stroke
  • He'd have one now, if he only was alive
  • I like the way you look at me
  • You're laughing too down there inside
  • I took my chance and you took yours
  • You crewed my ship, we missed the tide
  • I like the way the music goes
  • There's a few good guys who can play it right
  • I like the way it moves my toes
  • Just say when you want to go and dance all night...
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The Night Watch
  • (Fripp/Wetton/Palmer-James)
  • Shine, shine, the light of good works shine
  • The watch before the city gates depicted in their prime
  • That golden light all grimy now
  • Three hundred years have passed
  • The worthy Captain and his squad of troopers standing fast
  • The artist knew their faces well
  • The husbands of his lady friends
  • His creditors and councillors
  • In armour bright, the merchant men
  • Official moments of the guild
  • In poses keen from bygone days
  • The city fathers frozen there
  • Upon the canvas dark with age
  • The smell of paint, a flask of wine
  • And turn those faces all to me
  • The blunderbuss and halberd-shaft
  • And Dutch respectability
  • They make their entrance one by one
  • Defenders of that way of life
  • The redbrick home, the bourgeoisie
  • Guitar lessons for the wife
  • So many years we suffered here
  • Our country racked with Spanish wars
  • Now comes a chance to find ourselves
  • And quiet reigns behind our doors
  • We think about posterity again
  • And so the pride of little men
  • The burghers good and true
  • Still living through the painter's hand
  • Request you all to understand
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Music Album Reviews: Starless & Bible Black
Starless & Bible Black Album Image
Starless & Bible Black
by King Crimson

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  • All Time
    of 457,240
    8,613
    1970's
    of 2,829
    314
    1974
    of 294
    27
Ratings and rankings are based on all avaliable critic reviews and awards.
Overall Rating:
2.7392
Starless & Bible Black is ranked overall as 2.7392 out of 4 stars
Avg Critic Score:
2.7325
Starless & Bible Black is ranked overall as 2.7325 out of 4 stars
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Starless & Bible Black Album Tracks

Lyrics
Disc
Track
Title
1
1
The Great Deceiver
1
2
Lament
 
1
3
We'll Let You Know
1
4
The Night Watch
 
1
5
Trio
 
1
6
The Mincer
 
1
7
Starless And Bible Black
 
1
8
Fracture
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