Karn Evil 9 (complete Suite)

Karn Evil 9 First Impression

Cold and misty morning, I heard a warning borne in the air

About an age of power where no one had an hour to spare,

Where the seeds have withered, silent children shivered, in the cold

Now their faces captured in the lenses of the jackals for gold.

I'll be there

I'll be there

I will be there.

Suffering in silence, they've all been betrayed.

They hurt them and they beat them, in a terrible way,

Praying for survival at the end of the day.

There is no compassion for those who stay.

I'll be there

I'll be there

I will be there.

There must be someone who can set them free:

To take their sorrow from this odyssey

To help the helpless and the refugee

To protect what's left of humanity.

Can't you see

Can't you see

Can't you see.

I'll be there

I'll be there

I will be there;

To heal their sorrow

To beg and borrow

Fight tommorow.

Step inside! Hello! We've the most amazing show

You'll enjoy it all we know

Step inside! Step Inside!

We've got thrills and shocks, supersonic fighting cocks.

Leave your hammers at the box

Come Inside! Come Inside!

Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!

See the show!

Left behind the bars, rows of Bishops' heads in jars

and a bomb inside a car

Spectacular! Spectacular!

If you follow me there's a speciality

some tears for you to see

Misery, misery,

Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!

See the show!

Next upon the bill in our House of Vaudeville

We've a stripper in a till

What a thrill! What a thrill!

And not content with that, with our hands behind our backs,

We pull Jesus from a hat,

Get into that! Get into that!

Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!

See the show!

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends

We're so glad you could attend

Come inside! Come inside!

There behind a glass is a real blade of grass

be careful as you pass.

Move along! Move along!

Come inside, the show's about to start

guaranteed to blow your head apart

Rest assured you'll get your money's worth

The greatest show in Heaven, Hell or Earth.

You've got to see the show, it's a dynamo.

You've got to see the show, it's rock and roll ....

Soon the Gypsy Queen in a glaze of Vaseline

Will perform on guillotine

What a scene! What a scene!

Next upon the stand will you please extend a hand

to Alexander's Ragtime Band

Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!

See the show!

Performing on a stool we've a sight to make you drool

Seven virgins and a mule

Keep it cool. Keep it cool.

We would like it to be known the exhibits that were shown

were exclusively our own,

All our own. All our own.

Come and see the show! Come and see the show! Come and see the show!

See the show!

Karn Evil 9 Second Impression (Instrumental)

Karn Evil 9 Third Impression

Man alone; born of stone;

Will stamp the dust of time

His hands strike the flame of his soul;

Ties a rope to a tree and hangs the Universe

Until the winds of laughter blows cold.

Fear that rattles in men's ears

And rears it's hideous head

Dread .... Death .... in the wind ....

Man of steel pray and kneel

With fever's blazing torch

Thrust in the face of the night;

Draws a blade if compassion

Kissed by countless Kings

Whose jewelled trumpet words blind his sight.

Walls that no man thought would fall

The altars of the just

Crushed .... Dust .... in the wind ....

No man yields who flies in my ship

DANGER!

Let the bridge computer speak

STRANGER!

LOAD YOUR PROGRAM. I AM YOURSELF.

No computer stands in my way

Only blood can cancel my pain

Guardians of a new clear dawn

Let the maps of war be drawn.

Rejoice! Glory is ours!

Our young men have not died in vain,

Their graves need no flowers

The tapes have recorded their names.

I am all there is

NEGATIVE! PRIMITIVE! LIMITED! I LET YOU LIVE!

But I gave you life

WHAT ELSE COULD YOU DO?

To do what was right

I'M PERFECT! ARE YOU?