Kings of Leon – Spiral Staircase

"Spiral Staircase" as written by Angelo T. Petraglia, Anthony Caleb Followill and Ivan Nathan Followill....
Spiral staircase going down, paint your body red and brown
On our knees we'll feast on a sex show
Spiral staircase spiral staircase

Greasy haircuts a German Chinese girl
Gonna keep ya'll busy tugging at my curl
Get your ass together
You better walk, walk, walk by walking we cannot run

They all came to the party and there's four to every stall
Get's fust-er-ating just pissin' on this wall
Seems like there's another story bangin'
Around every step you fake

Spiral staircase going down, paint your body red and brown
On our knees we'll feast on a sex show
Spiral staircase spiral staircase

They all came to the party and there's four to every stall
Get's fust-er-ating just pissing on this wall
Seems like there's another story bangin'
Around every step you fake

Spiral stair case going down paint your body red and brown
On our knees we'll feast on a sex show
Spiral staircase spiral staircase

Spiral stair case going down paint your body red and brown
On our knees we'll feast on a sex show
Spiral staircase spiral staircase


Lyrics submitted by demirep7371

"Spiral Staircase" as written by Caleb Followill Nathan Followill

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    General CommentYeah i understand whatcha mean el bastardo...almost every line creates a raunchy image in your head

    Stay cool
    wasted-timeon April 04, 2006   Link
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    General CommentThis song is about the house in Topanga Canyon that was the haunt of rock stars such as Love, Jim Morrison, and more importantly the "cult" leader Charles Manson. Manson and the Family nicknamed the house Spiral Staircase due to the, er, Spiral Staircase. Numerous "sex parties" and other LSD induced madness went on there. There have been various conspiracy theories that the Spiral Staircase (also known as The Snake Pit after its owner) was in fact an FBI or CIA owned house that was a cover to gain information into the "counter culture" of 60's American Rock.

    Great Song.
    nexusiconon September 12, 2006   Link
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    General Commentnexusicon, may I just say...spectacular input. now it all makes sense. The one thing that still bugs me about this, however, is the fact that they all say something slurred and inaudible near the end of the song. I can't help but feel like it's something cryptic and/or insightful and we're all just missing out on it!
    The Tallest Manon November 24, 2006   Link
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    General CommentIt seems that i just cannot truthfully comment on this song without making myself look like a perv.
    EL BASTARDDOon December 13, 2005   Link
  • 0
    General CommentOne comment? Come on. I think that this is one of Kings of Leon's best songs (although I like them all). Although I don't really understand the lyrics, the sheer rawness of it really gets your juices pumping, man. Great song.
    Squevenon January 27, 2006   Link
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    General CommentSex, drugs and rock and roll.

    We love you!!
    *mona*lisa*smile*on February 02, 2006   Link
  • 0
    General CommentI love how the guitar comes in on line "sex Show"
    Alex321on April 07, 2007   Link
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    General Commentgosh i just love the rawness of caleb's voice in this song
    linzylou63on April 22, 2007   Link
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    General CommentWell, if you think that this whole thing is about the actual "Spiral Staircase" place then, you should realize that what Charles Manson used to do is mutter words in a sybolic gesture, and usually turn them into words that are kinda like Got to die or something like that... and then, you also have to consider, most of Kings of Leons songs, have nothing to do with other people, the first CD was based on things they wanted to do when the get popular, and then the second was things they did, and the third was more so on their life growing up...
    Kutenianon January 22, 2008   Link
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    General CommentI love this song so much. Love it when Caleb does his "walk walk walk" bit. I love KOL! So much! And I so agree with 'The Tallest Man'....the inaudible bit really bugs me 2! I wanna know what they're saying dammit!!!
    Meggies Chamberson January 26, 2008   Link

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