Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
There is lambswool under my naked feet
The wool is soft and warm
Gives off some kind of heat
A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed
Imaginary creatures are trapped in birth on celluloid
The fleas cling to the golden fleece
Hoping they'll find peace
Each thought and gesture are caught in celluloid
There's no hiding in memory
There's no room to avoid
The crawlers cover the floor in the red ochre corridor
For my second sight of people, they've more lifeblood than before
They're moving in time to a heavy wooden door
Where the needle's eye is winking, closing on the poor
The carpet crawlers heed their callers
"We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out"
There's only one direction in the faces that I see
It's upward to the ceiling, where the chamber's said to be
Like the forest fight for sunlight, that takes root in every tree
They are pulled up by the magnet, believing they're free
The carpet crawlers heed their callers
"We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out"
Mild-mannered supermen are held in kryptonite
And the wise and foolish virgins giggle with their bodies glowing bright
Through the door a harvest feast is lit by candlelight
It's the bottom of a staircase that spirals out of sight
The carpet crawlers heed their callers
"We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out"
The porcelain mannequin with shattered skin fears attack
And the eager pack lift up their pitchers, they carry all they lack
The liquid has congealed, which has seeped out through the crack
And the tickler takes his stickleback
The carpet crawlers heed their callers
"We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out"
"We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out"
"We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out"
"We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out"
The carpet crawlers heed their callers
"We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out"
The wool is soft and warm
Gives off some kind of heat
A salamander scurries into flame to be destroyed
Imaginary creatures are trapped in birth on celluloid
The fleas cling to the golden fleece
Hoping they'll find peace
Each thought and gesture are caught in celluloid
There's no hiding in memory
There's no room to avoid
The crawlers cover the floor in the red ochre corridor
For my second sight of people, they've more lifeblood than before
They're moving in time to a heavy wooden door
Where the needle's eye is winking, closing on the poor
The carpet crawlers heed their callers
"We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out"
There's only one direction in the faces that I see
It's upward to the ceiling, where the chamber's said to be
Like the forest fight for sunlight, that takes root in every tree
They are pulled up by the magnet, believing they're free
The carpet crawlers heed their callers
"We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out"
Mild-mannered supermen are held in kryptonite
And the wise and foolish virgins giggle with their bodies glowing bright
Through the door a harvest feast is lit by candlelight
It's the bottom of a staircase that spirals out of sight
The carpet crawlers heed their callers
"We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out"
The porcelain mannequin with shattered skin fears attack
And the eager pack lift up their pitchers, they carry all they lack
The liquid has congealed, which has seeped out through the crack
And the tickler takes his stickleback
The carpet crawlers heed their callers
"We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out"
"We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out"
"We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out"
"We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out"
The carpet crawlers heed their callers
"We've gotta get in to get out
We've gotta get in to get out"
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae, edited by Crawlers, yjloiselle
The Carpet Crawlers Lyrics as written by Peter Brian Gabriel Steven Richard Hackett
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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