What Are The Carpet Crawlers

The carpet crawlers is a song by the english progressive rock band genesis recorded for their sixth studio album the lamb lies down on broadway.

What are the carpet crawlers.

And that is the carpet crawlers in a nutshell. Mild mannered supermen are held in kryptonite and the wise and foolish virgins giggle with their bodies glowing bright through a door a harvest feast is lit by candlelight it s the bottom of a staircase that spirals out of sight. Carpet crawlers was the second single released from the lamb lies down on broadway and is often cited as a highlight of that album. The carpet crawlers heed their callers.

He returns from his mixed up memories to the passage he was previously stuck in. There is lambswool under my. Through a door a harvest feast is lit by candlelight. The song was written almost entirely by peter gabriel.

Genesis playing the carpet crawlers in concert. Mike rutherford and tony banks wrote most of the music with the help of peter gabriel. And the themes this particular part centers on are ones of conformity false hope and drudgery. Lyrically the song tells the section of the album s story whereby rael the lead character finds himself in.

So all things considered this track reads like a criticism of those who blindly follow societal ideologies. We ve got to get in to get out we ve got to get in to get out we ve got to get in to get out mild mannered supermen are held in kryptonite and the wise and foolish virgins giggle with their bodies glowing bright. This time he discovers a long carpeted corridor.