King Crimson - Indoor Games Lyrics






Indoor fireworks amuse your kitchen staff
Dusting plastic garlic plants
They snigger in the draught
When you ride through the parlour
Wearing nothing but your armour-
Playing Indoor Games.

One string puppet shows amuse
Your sycophantic friends
Who cheer your rancid recipes
In fear they might offend,
Whilst you loaf on your sofa
Sporting falsies and a toga-
Playing Indoor Games, Indoor Games.

Your mean teetotum spins arouse your seventh wife
Who pats her sixty little skins
And reinsures your life,
Whilst you sulk in your sauna
'Cos you lost your jigsaw corner-
Playing Indoor Games, Indoor Games.

Each afternoon you train baboons to sing
Or swim in purple perspex water wings.
Come Saturday jump hopper, chelsea brigade,
High bender-trender it's all Indoor Games.

No ball bagatelle incites
Your children to conspire,
They slide across your frying pan
And fertilize your fire;
Still you and Jones go madder
Broken bones-broken ladder-
Hey Ho...





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  1. J.... B....

    Fucking pathetic! Curious as it might be.... play the finished version and give these fools the real essence of this track.

  2. A.... D....

    Simil sound of psycodelic Syd

  3. G.... R....

    האלבום הכי טוב שלהם

  4. m.... ....

    Hey, ho... 😄😅😆🙂☺😁😂🤩😎😀😁

  5. r.... 6....

    My favourite Crimson album :D

  6. P.... M....

    This is a different...one hand clap ✋

  7. J.... D....

    Where is the voice

  8. G.... C....

    The kids don't know the original though Robert, and they should.

  9. p.... ....

    ¡súper!

  10. S.... ....

    es de fanatico,pero quiero lizard

  11. S.... ....

    lizard forever

  12. S.... ....

    king cimson es lizard

  13. S.... ....

    i need the lizard

  14. S.... ....

    no importa si es simple, queremos lizard

  15. S.... ....

    queremos lizard live

  16. T.... m....

    Hope they sing Lady of The Dancing Water in at leas ONE concert.

  17. K.... C....

    Stunning clarity!

  18. E.... ....

    Lovely Gavin Harrison could never play this. Needs a deft touch and drum roll technique. What a great band.

  19. F.... ....

    Lizard is the lover...that's why I love Lizard

  20. G.... D....

    What is this?, missing a track or two? Could someone please post the real, complete song. Thanks.

    G.... D....

    it's showing you the individual parts, rather than the full mix.

    (YES, i wish Mr. Fripp would post more of LIZARD on YT, but he hasn't.)

  21. m.... ....

    This sounds nothing at all like the original mix.

  22. m.... m....

    Man that sounds so fukin good!! I want to hear all the songs "broken down" a little. U can really hear the horns on this

  23. M.... ....

    Pretty cool to hear the parts that are normally partly or entirely buried. Cirkus is my favourite song on the album though. Haskell's voice is...fucking terrible, mind you.

  24. A.... D....

    Although vaguely aware of King Crimson, I must confess it was Lance Corporal Boiled Egg that brought me here

    A.... D....

    Adam Davies exactly the same...

  25. H.... S....

    SOMEONE PLS FKIN MAKE THE DRUM LESSON FOR THIS ONE

  26. D.... T....

    So beautiful. I have words to qualifie the beauty of this music!!!

  27. m.... ....

    The more I listen to Lizard, the more I like it! I do think it's good! I wish you were here to hear it!

    m.... ....

    good reference to another masterpiece album and song:discipline-indiscipline

    m.... ....

    I LIKE IT

    m.... ....

    I was "there" to hear it.

    m.... ....

    I can argue for hours that LIZARD is KC's BEST album (not a wasted note).

  28. m.... ....

    Ever try this puppy on for size when dosing ? The whole package screams of psychedelia, very much a product of the times.... Mr. Fripp has since stated that the Lizard LP is "unlistenable". No doubt, it's one thing that he and Gordon Haskell will agree upon !!

  29. A.... ....

    They hardly used synths in anything else but Lizard

  30. J.... G....

    Lizard, the album, is one of the great under-rated albums, rock history.  Probably will always stand as that.

    J.... G....

    i would argue it's THE greatest musical album of all time. easily King Crimson's most SPOTLESS album. not a flaw on it! not one wasted note! It's a stunning record in every possible category.

  31. S.... ....

    This is great. Thank you for sharing this.

  32. w.... ....

    This album always a favorite of mine, despite so many others not liking it.  I love the contrasts, humor and experimentation with sounds.

  33. t.... ....

    1969 - 1974 King Crimson studio albums in order of preference :
    1. lizard   2. islands  3. larks tongues in aspic / in the court of the crimson king  4. red  5. in the wake of poseidon / starless and bible black

    t.... ....

    THANK YOU! I'm the ONLY person I know who likes Lizard, and all my friends love KC. %$#@!!! I think Lizard is easily their best record. Richest, and strangest! not a wasted note on it!

    t.... ....

    Listening to Lizard with good headphones is a blessing.
    I hear something new in the songs every-time.

    t.... ....

    i dont like much Lizard as a whole, but songs like Cirkus and Lizard ARE VERY AWESOME, Cirkus in special is one of my favorite songs of all

    t.... ....

    i would put Red first, Lizard second, and Court / Larks third personally!

  34. m.... n....

    interesting little piece, nice to be able to hear this. I will have to dig out my original vinyl copy.

  35. c.... ....

    so good to hear this..many thanks

  36. 9.... ....

    Excellent!!!

  37. M.... O....

    Just picked up the Lizard vinyl a few days ago. :)

  38. A.... Y....

    i thought Fripp couldn't stand Lizard? Why the revival?

    A.... Y....

    @kw19193 Νevertheless, the music in Lizard is credited solely to R. Fripp and the same goes for Islands. The only two KC albums that no-one else in the band is mentioned as composer.

    A.... Y....

    I find ISLANDS to be utterly forgettable. Over 30 years, i've given it a fresh chance over and over. Uninspired KC, treading water.

    LIZARD is the precise opposite: hyper-focused and unforgettable with killer hooks and melodies.

    A.... Y....

    An interesting comment. If we come at it from what Fripp has said then Islands was the result of his embracing Keith Tippett's (then) minimalistic approach to music (best heard on "Formentera Lady"), being knackered from a heavy workload, and the frustration of getting a band together that could learn the KC catalogue and tour with it. Too, with Boz as a newbie on bass Fripp wasn't in a position to stretch out compositionally. Liz is my fav KC album but I love Islands -- it has a low key charm that, erm, charms me. The title track should, in my modest opinion, be the last song KC ever performs live, those lyrics -- "Earth, stream, and tree/Return to the sea/Waves sweep the sand from my island/From me . . ." are powerful and poignant beyond words. All that said, each to their own yes? Cheers!

    A.... Y....

    I just think the same as you do.

    A.... Y....

    Except Pink Floyd fans think Ladies of the road is trash too.

  39. n.... ....

    I've always loved Lizard; my favourite album of the very early ('69-'71) period.

    n.... ....

    I love everything (King) Crimson, early and late, but Lizard and Islands are my all time favorites.

    n.... ....

    good friend turned me on to this ..but he took floor stripper out in the woods and ended up in a strait jacket??

  40. P.... {....

    Very nice. Thanks for posting this DGM~
    Rob/Boston