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The Celebration of the Lizard / Jim Morrison (c) 1968 NIPPER MUSIC CO., INC.
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Lions in the street and roaming
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Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming
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A beast caged in the heart of a city
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The body of his mother
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Rotting in the summer ground.
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He fled the town.
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He went down South and crossed the border
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Left the chaos and disorder
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Back there over his shoulder.
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One morning he awoke in a green hotel
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With a strange creature groaning beside him.
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Sweat oozed from its shiny skin.
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Is everybody in?
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The ceremony is about to begin.
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Wake up!
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You can't rember where it was.
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Had this dream stopped?
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The snake was pale gold
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Glazed & shrunken.
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We were afraid to touch it.
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The sheets were hot dead prisons.
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Now, run to the mirror in the bathroom,
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Look!
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I can't live thru each slow century of her moving.
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I let my cheek slide down
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The cool smooth tile
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Feel the good cold stinging blood
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The smooth hissing snakes of rain...
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Once i had a little game
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I liked to crawl back into my brain
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I think you know the game I mean
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I mean the game called 'go insane'
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Now you should try this little game
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Just close your eyes forget your name
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Forget the world, forget the people
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And we'll erect a different steeple.
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This little game is fun to do.
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Just close your eyes, no way to lose.
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And I'm right there, I'm going too.
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Release control, we're breaking through.
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Way back deep into the brain
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Back where there's never any pain.
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And the rain falls gently on the town.
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And in the labyrinth of streams
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Beneath, the quiet earthly presence of
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Nervous hill dwellers in the gentle hills around,
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Reptiles abounding
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Fossils, caves, cool air heights.
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Each house repeats a mold
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Windows rolled
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Beast car locked in against morning.
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All now sleeping
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Rugs silent, mirrors vacant,
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Dust blind under the beds of lawful couples
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Wound in sheets.
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And daughters, smug
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With semen eyes in their nipples
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Wait
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There's been a slaughter here.
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(Don't stop to speak or look around
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Your gloves & fan are on the ground
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We're getting out of town
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We're going on the run
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And you're the one i want to come)
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Not to touch the earth
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Not to see the sun
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Nothing left to do, but
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Run, run, run
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Let's run
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House upon the hill
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Moon is lying still
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Shadows of the trees
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Witnessing the wild breeze
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C'mon baby run with me
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Let's run
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Run with me
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Run with me
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Run with me
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Let's run
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The mansion is warm, at the top of the hill
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Rich are the rooms and the comforts there
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Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs
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And you won't know a thing till you get inside
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Dead president's corpse in the driver's car
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The engine runs on glue and tar
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C'mon along, we're not going very far
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To the East to meet the Czar.
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Some outlaws lived by the side of a lake
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The minister's daughter's in love with the snake
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Who lives in a well by the side of the road
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Wake up, girl! We're almost home
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Sun, sun, sun
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Burn, burn, burn
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Soon, soon, soon
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Moon, moon, moon,
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I will get you
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Soon!
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Soon!
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Soon!
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Let the carnival bells ring
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Let the serpent sing
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Let everything
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We came down
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The rivers & highways
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We came down from
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Forests & falls
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We came down from
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Carson & Springfield
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We came down from
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Phoenix enthralled
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& I can tell you
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The names of the Kingdom
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I can tell you
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The things that you know
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Listening for a fistful of silence
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Climbing valleys into the shade
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'I am the Lizard King
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I can do anything
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I can make the earth stop in its tracks
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I made the blue cars go away
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For seven years I dwelt
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In the loose palace if exile,
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Playing strange games
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With the girls of the island.
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Now I have come again
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To the land of the fair, & the strong, & the wise.
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Brothers & sisters of the pale forest
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O children of the Night
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Who among you will run with the hunt?
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Now Night arrives with her purple legion.
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Retire now to your tents & to your dreams.
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Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth.
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I want to be ready.'
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