Celebration Of The Lizard (LP Version)-The Doors

[00:38.93]Lions in the street and roaming [00:42.46]Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming [00:47.60]A beast caged in the heart of a city [00:55.83]The body of his mother [00:57.11]Rotting in the summer ground [00:58.86]He fled the town [01:00.74]He went down South and crossed the border [01:05.24]Left the chaos and disorder [01:07.48]Back there over his shoulder [01:11.82]One morning he awoke in a green hotel [01:16.63]With a strange creature groaning beside him [01:22.06]Sweat oozed from its shiny skin [01:35.15]Is everybody in? [01:38.86]Is everybody in? [01:43.64]Is everybody in? [01:48.13]The ceremony is about to begin [01:52.91]Wake up [01:55.65]You can't remember where it was [01:58.66]Had this dream stopped? [02:02.18]The snake was pale gold [02:05.55]Glazed and shrunken [02:08.27]We were afraid to touch it [02:11.74]The sheets were hot dead prisons [02:19.97]And she was beside me [02:25.07]Old, she's not, young [02:37.53]Her dark white hair [02:41.52]Her white soft skin [02:44.82]Now, run to the mirror in the bathroom [02:47.48]Look! [02:48.73]She's coming in here [02:50.64]I can't live through each slow century of her moving [02:57.22]I let my cheek slide down [03:00.54]The cool smooth tile [03:06.26]Feel the good cold stinging blood [03:13.08]The smooth hissing snakes of rain [03:44.27]Once I had, a little game [03:49.05]I liked to crawl back into my brain [03:54.25]I think you know the game I mean [03:59.40]I mean the game called 'go insane' [04:04.85]Now, you should try this little game [04:10.16]Just close your eyes, forget your name [04:15.59]Forget the world, forget the people [04:21.21]And we'll erect a different steeple [04:26.48]This little game is fun to do [04:31.21]Just close your eyes, no way to lose [04:36.52]And I'm right here, I'm going too [04:42.11]Release control, we're breaking through, yeah [04:48.14]Uhh [05:29.44]Way back deep into the brain [05:38.58]Way back past the realm of pain [05:49.34]Back where there's never any rain [05:59.32]And in the labyrinth of streams beneath [06:06.22]The quiet unearthly presence of gentle hill people [06:11.78]In the gentle hills around [06:15.86]Reptiles abounding [06:18.55]Fossils, caves, cool air heights [06:36.52]Each house repeats a mold [06:47.18]Windows rolled [06:52.67]Beast car locked in against morning [07:01.86]Rugs silent, mirrors vacant [07:06.61]Dust blind under the beds of lawful couples [07:11.45]Wound in sheets [07:13.43]And daughters smug with semen [07:19.39]Eyes in their nipples [07:28.79]Wait [07:31.27]There's been a slaughter here [07:41.51]Don't stop to speak or look around [07:44.60]Your gloves and fan are on the ground [07:47.42]We're getting out of town [07:50.42]We're going on the run [07:53.95]And you're the one I want to come [08:32.58]Not to touch the earth [08:34.75]Not to see the sun [08:37.00]Nothing left to do, but [08:39.45]Run, run, run [08:41.07]Let's run [08:45.25]Let's run [08:51.03]House upon the hill [08:53.19]Moon is lying still [08:55.34]Shadows of the trees [08:57.71]Witnessing the wild breeze [09:00.12]C'mon baby, run with me [09:04.09]Let's run [09:06.96]Run with me [09:11.30]Run with me [09:15.74]Run with me [09:19.40]Let's run [09:37.08]Not to touch the earth [09:39.17]Not to see the sun [09:41.21]Nothing left to do, but [09:43.45]Run, run, run [09:45.13]Let's run [09:49.28]Let's run [09:54.19]House upon the hill [09:56.20]Moon is lying still [09:58.19]Shadows of the trees [10:00.22]Witnessing the wild breeze [10:01.95]C'mon baby, run with me [10:04.95]Let's run [11:15.30]Dead president's corpse in the driver's car [11:19.58]The engine runs on glue and tar [11:23.40]C'mon along, we're not going very far [11:28.02]To the East to meet the Czar [11:39.54]The mansion is warm, at the top of the hill [11:43.67]Rich are the rooms and the comforts there [11:47.69]Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs [11:51.90]And you won't know a thing till you get inside, yeah [12:01.67]Run with me [12:06.11]Run with me [12:09.97]Run with me [12:13.58]Let's run [12:26.01]Some outlaws lived by the side of the lake [12:30.06]The minister's daughter's in love with the snake [12:34.03]Who lives in a well by the side of the road [12:38.21]Wake up, girl! We're almost home, yeah, c'mon [12:58.04]We should see the gates by morning [13:09.69]We should be inside by evening [14:12.93]Ohh [14:16.04]Let the carnival bells ring [14:20.46]Let the serpent sing [14:25.42]Let everything [14:52.59]We came down the rivers and highways [15:00.37]We came down from forests and falls [15:07.71]We came down from Carson and Springfield [15:15.68]We came down from Phoenix enthralled [15:37.65]And I can tell you the names of the Kingdom [15:44.81]I can tell you the things that you know [15:51.62]Listening for a fistful of silence [15:59.51]Climbing valleys into the shade [16:38.30]I am the Lizard King [16:42.41]Retire now to your tents and to your dreams [16:50.14]Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth [16:56.96]I want to be ready [17:00.90]