The Carpet Crawlers

The Carpet Crawlers: Chords

MI7+          LA7+           MI7+       LA7+
 There is lambswool under my naked feet
    FA#m6+
The wool is soft and warm,
          DO#
Gives off some kind of heat
  DO#m  RE7+  DO#m    RE7+  DO#m     RE7+ DO#m  RE7+
A sala-mander scurries into flame to be destroyed
     SIm   RE7+     SIm  LA7+
Imaginary  creatures are trapped in birth 
        MI7+   LA7+   MI7+   LA7+  
On celluloid
    SI9
The fleas cling to the golden fleece,
DO#
Hoping they'll find peace
     DO#m RE7+   DO#m   RE7+ DO#m      RE7+  DO#m RE7+
Each thought and gesture are caught in cellu-loid
           SIm          RE7+  SIm
There's no hiding in my memory
        LA7/4             RE
There's no room    ...to avoid

                       MIm
The crawlers cover the floor 
                 RE
In the red ochre corridor
                       MIm
For my second sight of people
                              RE
They've more lifeblood than before
                  MIm                    RE
They're moving in time to a heavy wooden door
                          MIm
Where the needle's eye is winking, 

closing in on the poor
    FA#m
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
LA                           SOL
  We've got to get in to get out...
LA                           SOL
  We've got to get in to get out...
RE                    DO      MIm/SI  RE 
  We've got to get in  to get out...

                   MIm                         RE
There's only one direction in the faces that I see
                   MIm
It's upward to the ceiling
                            RE
Where the chamber's said to be
                          MIm
Like the forest fight for sunlight, 
                         RE
That takes root in every tree
                          MIm
They are pulled up by the magnet, 

believing they're free
    FA#m
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
LA                           SOL
  We've got to get in to get out...
LA                           SOL
  We've got to get in to get out...
RE                    DO       MIm/SI  RE 
  We've got to get in   to get out...

                           MIm
Mild mannered supermen are held in kryptonite,
        RE
And the wise and foolish virgins giggle 
           MIm
With their bodies glowing bright
RE                                MIm
Through a door a harvest feast is lit by candlelight
         RE                         
It's the bottom of a staircase 
     MIm
that spirals out of sight
    FA#m
The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
LA                           SOL
  We've got to get in to get out...
LA                           SOL
  We've got to get in to get out...
RE                   DO       MIm/SI  RE 
  We've got to get in  to get out...

                          
The porcelain manikin 
     MIm
with shattered skin fears attack
        RE
And the eager pack lift up their pitchers  
MIm
 They carry all they lack
    RE                              
The liquid has congealed,
           MIm
 which has seeped out through the crack,
        RE                             MIm
And the tickler takes his stickleback
    FA#m
The carpet crawlers heed their callers
LA                           SOL
  We've got to get in to get out...
LA                           SOL
  We've got to get in to get out...
RE                   DO       MIm/SI 
  We've got to get in  to get out...

      RE                    MIm                
We've got to get out, we've got to get in to get out
      RE                    MIm                
We've got to get out, we've got to get in to get out
      RE                    MIm                
We've got to get out, we've got to get in to get out
      RE                    MIm                
We've got to get out, we've got to get in to get out
    FA#m
The carpet crawlers heed their callers
LA                           SOL
  We've got to get in to get out...
LA                           SOL
  We've got to get in to get out...
RE                   DO       MIm/SI 
  We've got to get in  to get out...

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The Carpet Crawlers è un brano composto e inciso dai Genesis, contenuto nell'album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway pubblicato nel 1974. Sesto lavoro in studio per la band prog britannica, si tratta di un doppio concept album che racconta le vicende di un giovane portoricano di nome Rael, alter ego di Peter Gabriel che ne firma tutti i testi. La canzone, decima traccia del primo volume, è il secondo singolo estratto dal disco; nel testo, il teppista Rael, si trova nei bassifondi di New York davanti ad un'inquietante moquette rossa.

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Alberto Moneti

36 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).