King Crimson - The Court Of The Crimson King Lyrics






The rusted chains of prison moons
Are shattered by the sun
I walk a road, horizons change
The tournament's begun
The purple piper plays his tune
The choir softly sing
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
For the court of the crimson king

The keeper of the city keys
Put shutters on the dreams
I wait outside the pilgrim's door
With insufficient schemes
The black queen chants
the funeral march
The cracked brass bells will ring
To summon back the fire witch
To the court of the crimson king

The gardener plants an evergreen
Whilst trampling on a flower
I chase the wind of a prism ship
To taste the sweet and sour
The pattern juggler lifts his hand
The orchestra begin
As slowly turns the grinding wheel
In the court of the crimson king

On soft gray mornings widows cry
The wise men share a joke
I run to grasp divining signs
To satisfy the hoax
The yellow jester does not play
But gently pulls the strings
And smiles as the puppets dance
In the court of the crimson king





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  1. R.... ....

    Coudn't save La Pieta smashed up before we got there

  2. s.... l....

    Later after giorno became boss I hook up with Trish and I fucked her
    Now we are married what a turn of events

  3. R.... t....

    Omg Golden Experience brought comment section back to life :D

  4. H.... ....

    Ok wtf is it me or between 6:52 and 6:56 there seems to be time skip??

    H.... ....

    This is a test

  5. S.... F....

    Remember guys. Just the result.. Always the result...

    S.... F....

    Not always, no, not always, sometimes one takes more pleasure in a trip than in the place where one has to go...

  6. G.... T....

    Man the video was marke for kids for about a week. Thank God for its over.

  7. J.... M....

    A truly remarkable album right from the get go. I recall falling head over heels for this recording upon its release. Of how I took it home not really sure what to expect. Lit a doob and mulled about a bit preparing myself for what I didn't know. With headphones on and the quiet haze I now donned, I placed the album on my Thorens turntable (which I still have). I was in the heavens for sure. Their writing, their playing and engineering was nothing short of being totally spectacular. I enjoy it today with almost the same reverence. The only thing missing today is the the unknowing of what was to be expected. Very few groups can ever keep up with their initial success, they have.

  8. M.... ....

    mOsHi mOsHi


    DoPpIo oH dOpPiO

  9. C.... L....

    Masterpiece of early rock themed movements

  10. s.... ....

    Remember when this was labelled as children's content for a week?
    Yeah that was hilarious

  11. P.... 5....

    Kekka dake da

  12. G.... ....

    I feel as I am supposed to know what a jojo is, this is getting scary

  13. F.... C....

    Grande bend

  14. g.... ....

    This reminds me of a Kenny vs Spenny.

  15. m.... ....

    what is a "king crimson" and why am i outside now

  16. M.... ....

    holy shit this fits Diavolo so amazingly well

  17. C.... ....

    I have a passione for my dream.

  18. m.... f....

    Thanks for introducing me to this amazing piece jojo

  19. �.... ....

    All JoJokes aside, I'm actually glad I found a song to sort of calm me down after a long day.
    Also, a friendly reminder, i know this won't get to the top, but please watch out for Aureo Vento spoilers in the comments.

  20. M.... G....

    *_"This is a test..."_*


    -


    *_"...Wouldn't you agree, Jean Pierre Polnareff?"_*

    M.... G....

    You're Diavolo!!!

  21. R.... A....

    who’s jojo and why is he having an adventure?

  22. S.... ....

    king crimson keeps their music off youtube specifically to prevent jojo fans from being unfunny in the comments section

  23. A.... ....

    Jojo makes me wish they were named, Giles, Giles and Fripp

  24. E.... f....

    This song is great.





    wouldn't you agree, Jean Pierre Polnareff?

  25. D.... R....

    Simply incredible intro.. So bad

  26. R.... ....

    21st century schizoid man - Diavolo / Doppio
    Epitaph - Epitaph
    Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson / Emperor Crimson

    R.... ....

    I will say 21st schizoid man is diavolo and doppio is moonchild

  27. F.... F....

    Youtube: *Marks the video as "for kids" because it has a pretty lion in it*
    Anyone with an IQ over 0: *Picks fork*

  28. R.... T....

    There is one thing you must never lose sight of, only one, is Love... Otherwise you will end up alone lost in the midst of your sad choices, the consequences of your inappropriate remarks to try clumsily to shine, one does not shine in wickedness and hatred, ever . Of course we can find ourselves many because any idea can gather but each time it is a tortuous path dotted with regrets, fruits of ignorance.
    Why I write this, so I can keep this in mind too

    R.... T....

    Thank you for your words.

  29. O.... ....

    Fuckin weebs.

  30. M.... B....

    Listen,listen to the words

  31. S.... M....

    Why does it keep skipping? Just let me listen to the whole thing

  32. B.... M....

    I can't find a single comment that compliments the song and the song only

    B.... M....

    Relic of a by-gone age unfortunately

  33. T.... V....

    You’re Diavolo!

  34. Z.... S....

    Lyrics:
    The rusted chains of prison moons
    Are shattered by the sun.
    I walk a road, horizons change
    The tournament's begun.
    The purple piper plays his tune,
    The choir softly sing;
    Three lullabies in an ancient tongue,
    For the court of the crimson king.

    The keeper of the city keys
    Put shutters on the dreams.
    I wait outside the pilgrim's door
    With insufficient schemes.
    The black queen chants
    the funeral march,
    The cracked brass bells will ring;
    To summon back the fire witch
    To the court of the crimson king.

    The gardener plants an evergreen
    Whilst trampling on a flower.
    I chase the wind of a prism ship
    To taste the sweet and sour.
    The pattern juggler lifts his hand;
    The orchestra begin.
    As slowly turns the grinding wheel
    In the court of the crimson king.

    On soft gray mornings widows cry
    The wise men share a joke;
    I run to grasp divining signs
    To satisfy the hoax.
    The yellow jester does not play
    But gentle pulls the strings
    And smiles as the puppets dance
    In the court of the crimson king.

    Z.... S....

    Thank you.
    I've been lookin' all over for the lyrics to the song.

  35. G.... W....

    580 people were left in a neverending loop of say "Nani?!?!" to each other.

  36. C.... C....

    "This is a test."

    C.... C....

    "Wouldn't you agree Jean Pierre Polnareff?"

  37. W.... R....

    I've just been Fripped-Off

  38. G.... ....

    The room made for the crimson emperor

    G.... ....

    Inside of the clearing of the blood colored lord

  39. J.... S....

    Flute solo starts at 4:14

  40. S.... F....

    Me: *Press L*
    Also me: "This is King Crimson's ability!"

  41. W.... G....

    Honestly I’d prefer Jojo comments over “Who’s watching in 2020” comments any day.

    W.... G....

    @BUCCIARATI Ah, yes. Now I must literally not read the comments at all. Thanks for your suggestion, kind sir.

    W.... G....

    @rowan e jojo fans are mostly dumb and annoying, but how does this affect you?

    W.... G....

    @Ryanizer 321 I would rather not have to see the exact same 5 jokes spammed within every comment thread in the future

    W.... G....

    @rowan e yeah, it is very annoying but it doesn't actually subtract from the quality of the songs. plus, it's not necessarily being a jojo fan that's bad (watching jojo probably makes you a little smarter if i'm being honest). it's just that children (that's most of these people) are annoying in general. they just happen to be drawn here because of jojo. this is about an equal level of garbage as most other youtube comment sections. as long as they don't touch my jazz, i'm fine.

    W.... G....

    @Ryanizer 321 Amen, if jazz is never touched I can die a happy man. I would argue that it's the slight majority of JoJo fans guilty of this but JoJo itself is a interesting show. Also yes, it's nearly impossible to detract from the quality of these songs; just personal gripes.

  42. O.... ....

    It would be funny if after each season of JoJo ended, all of the meme comments were erased from existence.
    I miss the old comment sections with actual discussion.

    O.... ....

    Yeah, thats a thing to use kc or the hand for rather than shitty song skipping memery

    O.... ....

    What discussion? It was literally just the lyrics and people saying "whose watching in XXXX" or "This song is the best 😍💓"

    O.... ....

    @khalil barkallah Really? Most prog comment sections are boomers recalling stuff or people actually talking about the music.

  43. C.... S....

    The Devil is the *Boss* and he's about to erase everything, even the time if it's need with the most powerfull servant of Hell: King Crimson!
    It Just Works...

  44. D.... ....

    Pizza spaghetti tarantella napoletana Francesca Pasta ragazza mi chiamo Massimo e ho un cazzo enorme Mario Luigi Bucciarati Porco dio mascolzone topolino allora Casanova fratello mi piace guardare gli hentai di Trish

  45. K.... ....

    Lately I've been hearing a weird ringing around my house. I think I'm going crazy because I found the noise coming from a pickle and I heard a voice on the other side! Jeez, life is weird.

  46. O.... y....

    Why are there so many Jojo fans

  47. T.... ....

    As much as I love jojo, can we acknowledge how this song manage to survive Fripp's Copyright rampage for years.

    T.... ....

    This is a cover, so it has survived all these eons because of this.

  48. G.... ....

    The only surviving King Crimson song in my playlist...

    G.... ....

    This is actually a cover, which is the reason fripp hasn't used copyright king to claim this video yet.

  49. S.... ....

    King Crimsons ability explained in The court of the Crimson King
    6:52

  50. K.... H....

    I dunno this is pretty accessible.

  51. B.... P....

    This is a good song...






    ...wouldn't you agree, *JEAN PIERRE POLNAREFF* ?

    B.... P....

    I think I just copied your comment by accident

    Now I can't find my own comment to delete it

  52. T.... H....

    This song is one of the most powerful songs on the planet. Solar ernergy

  53. F.... V....

    What I was at 1:52 it suddenly skips to 3:45...What the hell? This is so Bizarre.. 😨

  54. a.... v....

    esta canción al principio parece música mexicana, en las partes intermedias música de novela mexicana y en el estribillo parece alabanza a dios

    a.... v....

    Jajaj asi es

  55. y.... y....

    Everybody gangsta till the banana starts ringing

  56. r.... e....

    God I fucking hate JoJo fans

    r.... e....

    Triggered by words lmao snowflake

    r.... e....

    @khalil barkallah ok JoJo fan, keep laughing at the same 5 jokes for me :^)

  57. S.... T....

    KING CRIMSON NO NOURYAKU

  58. D.... B....

    song hits like a fist to the gut

  59. C.... J....

    The rusted chains of prison moons
    Are shattered by the sun
    I walk a road, horizons change
    The tournament's begun




    You fool! You fell for it. *THUNDER CROSS SPLIT ATTACK!*

    C.... J....

    Not even king crimson would allow diavolo to escape the thunder cross split attack

  60. J.... A....

    It just works

  61. J.... 7....

    If this was played at Diavolo’s reveal it would have been twice as good

  62. R.... ....

    even though the amount of jojo references in the comments is cringy to me, without jojo i wouldn't even have known this phenomenal song existed so eh what do i know

  63. D.... T....

    Comment section:
    95% JoJo Fans
    5% Everything else

  64. T.... ....

    Nobody is safe from JoJo references

  65. M.... R....

    IS THIS A FUCKING JOJO REFERENCE?!
    Nah jk jojo aside good song

  66. �.... �....

    This music makes me want to *erase time*

  67. P.... C....

    Children of Men. Excellent movie in which this track features.

  68. L.... B....

    This is why I love and hate JoJo, for the music references and for those songs to be flooded by the same comments over and over.. It's the equvilent as "this youtuber brought here" it just means you're not fully taking in what the video is for.
    Full on ape mode with these guys i swear..

    L.... B....

    Okay, Boomer

  69. [.... Z....

    Ignore the rest of the comment section if you dont watch jojo. In the replies here you can talk about the song safely.

  70. [.... T....

    I swear cringy JoJo fans leaving these unfunny and unoriginal comments just make the fanbase look bad.

    Even I am ashamed.

    Nice song anyway.

  71. I.... ....

    Y’know you can sue the entirety of the jojo fan base if you wanted to (If rights weren’t given to it yet)

  72. M.... F....

    Who’s here after they took down a bunch of songs from the King Crimson YouTube channel

    M.... F....

    why did they do that

    M.... F....

    Toolameforname_ My guess is Fripp wanted to give his audience a taste of his music so that people will buy it, it’s like a free trial really. He’s always been super protective about his music, he WANTS you to only be able to access it by buying it

    M.... F....

    In the court of the crimson king just got a new re release so i think thats why

    M.... F....

    That sucks

  73. S.... G....

    Everybody gangsta till doppio takes off his shirt

  74. C.... _....

    Y’all ever ———————————————————— ?

  75. M.... ....

    The only version of the song that hasn’t been taken down due to Jojo fans leaving unfunny comments and then not even listening to the music. I just wanna listen to the nice song, guys.

    M.... ....

    funny the hand noise erasing other uploads is my stando powa

    M.... ....

    Bruh they took down the one on the King Crimson channel so I’m here now

    M.... ....

    Mountain Falcon That’s......why I made the comment in the first place

    M.... ....

    and all of the fucking jojokes left are unoriginal.

    M.... ....

    Oh you're that dude protecting the furry on that circus theme video? Small world huh?

  76. D.... U....

    Boss what are you doing

  77. E.... S....

    What video

  78. L.... x....

    This song--
    --jo reference.
    Urm.... where did my comment go?

  79. H.... A....

    They took down Epitaph and 21st Schizoid Man... again. :(

    H.... A....

    I noticed that as well. Maybe because the 50th anniversary tour is over. Or maybe it's Fripp being a complete friggin' a--hole again, the insufferable maggot.

  80. J.... C....

    The song if really lit guys but I have a problem...When the song plays, sometimes it randomly skips 10 seconds of it. Is this some kind of youtube glitch?

  81. c.... ....

    imma keep skipping 10 seconds off this video

  82. �.... �....

    King Crismon Requiem Theme

  83. R.... T....

    I didn't even know this was in JoJo when I found it

  84. M.... ....

    Simplemente apoteosico

  85. L.... T....

    BRUH THEY TOOK DOWN THEIR OWN VIDEOS THIS IS THE WORST TIMELINE

    L.... T....

    it been country block for some reason, i had it on my playlist and saw it was country lock, i'm so mad it was the only verison i really like and i can't found anything that sound like it.

    L.... T....

    ok i found them, go to soundcloud and all the muics is there.

  86. S.... O....

    The more I listen to this band and this song, the more I realize just how incredible they are. It's always really disappointing when I look in the comments to see if anyone has similar thoughts and it's all just jojokes and stuff about how fripp is no longer stopping people from listening through yt.

  87. M.... C....

    STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!!!

  88. T.... C....

    You know Spenny is hitting rock bottom when this plays

  89. S.... R....

    Like dislike ratio 34851/569 is 61.2495606327

  90. P.... K....

    I wonder how many manhours/years have been spent stoned listening to this song?

  91. L.... C....

    6:53 KING CRIMSON ERASED THE SONG!

  92. C.... B....

    Imagine some pink-haired guy bullying a crippled for a arrow

  93. G.... D....

    I think time was erased at 6:54

  94. D.... M....

    Never heard this song before. Fantastic.

  95. K.... E....

    ok, good song but I think that in min 6:53 someone used king crimson.

  96. A.... T....

    6:53 is what you're looking for

  97. H.... ....

    the solomon king