What Are The Carpet Crawlers

The carpet crawlers heed their callers.

What are the carpet crawlers. Genesis playing the carpet crawlers in concert. The carpet crawlers heed their callers we ve got to get in to get out we ve got to get in to get out. The colorful and artistic language used throughout relays a story which is but a segment of a much larger narrative. The song was written almost entirely by peter gabriel.

He returns from his mixed up memories to the passage he was previously stuck in. Mike rutherford and tony banks wrote most of the music with the help of peter gabriel. Lyrically the song tells the section of the album s story whereby rael the lead character finds himself in. Carpet crawlers was the second single released from the lamb lies down on broadway and is often cited as a highlight of that album.

Mild mannered supermen are held in kryptonite and the wise and foolish virgins giggle with their bodies glowing bright through a door a harvest feast is lit by candlelight it s the bottom of a staircase that spirals out of sight. The carpet crawlers is a song by the english progressive rock band genesis recorded for their sixth studio album the lamb lies down on broadway. And the themes this particular part centers on are ones of conformity false hope and drudgery. There is lambswool under my.

So all things considered this track reads like a criticism of those who blindly follow societal ideologies. This time he discovers a long carpeted corridor. Through a door a harvest feast is lit by candlelight.