What Are The Carpet Crawlers

Genesis playing the carpet crawlers in concert.

What are the carpet crawlers.

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 heed their callers we ve got to get in to get out we ve got to get in to get out. We ve got to get in to get out we ve got to get in to get out we ve got to get in to get out mild mannered supermen are held in kryptonite and the wise and foolish virgins giggle with their bodies glowing bright. The colorful and artistic language used throughout relays a story which is but a segment of a much larger narrative.

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. The song was written almost entirely by peter gabriel. He returns from his mixed up memories to the passage he was previously stuck in.

The carpet crawlers heed their callers. So all things considered this track reads like a criticism of those who blindly follow societal ideologies. And that is the carpet crawlers in a nutshell. And the themes this particular part centers on are ones of conformity false hope and drudgery.

This time he discovers a long carpeted corridor. Carpet crawlers was the second single released from the lamb lies down on broadway and is often cited as a highlight of that album. Genesis playing the carpet crawlers in concert.