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One More Red Nightmare Lyrics
Pan American nightmare
Ten thousand feet fun-fair
Convinced that I don't care
It's safe as houses I swear
I was just sitting musing
The virtues of cruising
When altitude dropping
My ears started popping
One more red nightmare
Sweat beginning to pour down
My neck as I turn round
I heard fortune shouting
Just get off of this outing
A farewell swan song
See you know how turbulence can be
The stewardess made me
But the captain forbade me
One more red nightmare
Reality stirred me
My angel had heard me
The prayer had been answered
A reprieve has been granted
The dream was now broken
Thought rudely awoken
Really safe and sound
Asleep on the Greyhound
One more red nightmare
Ten thousand feet fun-fair
Convinced that I don't care
It's safe as houses I swear
I was just sitting musing
When altitude dropping
My ears started popping
One more red nightmare
My neck as I turn round
I heard fortune shouting
Just get off of this outing
See you know how turbulence can be
The stewardess made me
But the captain forbade me
One more red nightmare
My angel had heard me
The prayer had been answered
A reprieve has been granted
Thought rudely awoken
Really safe and sound
Asleep on the Greyhound
One more red nightmare
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Submitted by
ruben On Jun 09, 2002
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No comments? This rocks harder than anything should have in the 70s.
seems fairly obvious on a literal level: a dream-nightmare really- about cruising in an airplane when it loses control and begins a deadly descent. (Pan American, ears popping, turbulence, stewardess, etc.) Then he wakes up in the relative safety of a greyhound
kickass solo too
does anyone know the lyrics to the omitted bit? it says see note but i see no note.
sable Jester: "The stewardess made me, but the captain forbade me, One more red nightmare..."
Also, I'm really loving this song, and I agree with floating eye in that the "red" doesn't need to be taken literally, and does give emphasis to the nightmarishness and horror of the situation.
All you need to do is look at the gauge on the back cover. The gauge is "red lined" indicating that it's in a dangerous zone.
All you need to do is look at the gauge on the back cover. The gauge is "red lined" indicating that it's in a dangerous zone.
I just bought some random King Crimson CD's after a recomendation and I am now a huge fan. They definitely rock hard... not exactly sure what this song refers to but the lyrics still make sense.
Until I read the lyrics (I never really listened closely to them although I know the song well) I thought this was about American 1950s communist paranoia, (hence the "Red") but it seems far less inspired and much more obvious now that I read the lyrics. Oh well.
All you need to do is look at the gauge on the back cover. The gauge is "red lined" indicating that it's in a dangerous zone.
All you need to do is look at the gauge on the back cover. The gauge is "red lined" indicating that it's in a dangerous zone.
I don't think red needs to be interpreted literally, the color red usually implies danger, power (as in an explosive crash), etc. It reinforces and further defines the 'nightmarishness'
My guess behind the word 'red' is that this song is a sort of reprise on Red as they both have a maj7b5 pattern, and I think it's probably nothing more than that.
All you need to do is look at the gauge on the back cover. The gauge is "red lined" indicating that it's in a dangerous zone.
All you need to do is look at the gauge on the back cover. The gauge is "red lined" indicating that it's in a dangerous zone.
I hardly think this has to do with communist paranoia...
I think the lyrics, alike many other King Crimson songs such as 21st Century Schizoid Man, are carefully chosen to represent imagery. Each phrase gives you a different nighmarish, scary scenario, fitting the overall creepy tone of the melody.
I don't understand what he means by "A farewell swan song"