Mike rutherford and tony banks wrote most of the music with the help of peter gabriel.
What are the carpet crawlers.
Genesis playing the carpet crawlers in concert.
The carpet crawlers heed their callers.
Through a door a harvest feast is lit by candlelight.
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.
This time he discovers a long carpeted corridor.
Lyrically the song tells the section of the album s story whereby rael the lead character finds himself in.
The colorful and artistic language used throughout relays a story which is but a segment of a much larger narrative.
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.
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.
He returns from his mixed up memories to the passage he was previously stuck in.
So all things considered this track reads like a criticism of those who blindly follow societal ideologies.
And the themes this particular part centers on are ones of conformity false hope and drudgery.
The carpet crawlers heed their callers we ve got to get in to get out we ve got to get in to get out.
And that is the carpet crawlers in a nutshell.