Artists
Musicians featured in this piece are:
Robert Fripp – guitar, Mellotron, synthesiser and devices
Gordon Haskell – bass guitar and vocals
Mel Collins – saxophone and flute
Andy McCulloch – drums
Keith Tippett – acoustic and electric piano
Mark Charig – cornet
Nick Evans – trombone
Robin Miller – oboe and cor anglais
Jon Anderson – lead vocals (guest, of Yes)
The song’s lyrics and conceptual design were penned by Peter Sinfield. Music composed by Robert Fripp and Peter Sinfield.
King Crimson – Prince Rupert Awakes Lyrics
Farewell the temple master’s bells
His kiosk and his black worm seed
Courtship solely of his word
With Eden guaranteed
For now Prince Rupert’s tears of glass
Make saffron sabbath eyelids bleed
Scar the sacred tablet wax
On which the Lizards feed
Wake your reason’s hollow vote
Wear your blizzard season coat
Burn a bridge and burn a boat
Stake a Lizard by the throat
Go Polonius or kneel
The reapers name their harvest dawn
All your tarnished devil’s spoons
Will rust beneath our corn
Now bears Prince Rupert’s garden roam
Across his rain tree shaded lawn
Lizard bones become the clay
And there a swan is born
Wake your reason’s hollow vote
Wear your blizzard season coat
Burn a bridge and burn a boat
Stake a Lizard by the throat
Gone soon Piepowder’s moss-weed court
Round which upholstered Lizards sold
Visions to their leaden flock
Of rainbows’ ends and gold
Now tales Prince Rupert’s peacock brings
Of walls and trumpets thousand fold
Prophets chained for burning masks
And reels of dreams unrolled
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