The Carpet Crawlers 1999

Genesis

   D                 Em                     D
1. The crawlers cover the floor in the red ochre corridor.
   Em                                    D
   For my second sight of people, they’ve more lifeblood than before.
   Em                      D
   They’re moving in time to a heavy wooden door,
   Em
   Where the needle’s eye is winking, closing in on the poor.
   
   F#m                                     A
R: The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
   G      A
   We’ve got to get in to get out
   G      D
   We’ve got to get in to get out
   C      G  D
   We’ve got to get in to get out.
   
   Em                           D
2. There’s only one direction in the faces that I see;
   Em                                  D
   It’s upward to the ceiling, where the chamber’s said to be.
   Em                                  D
   Like the forest fight for sunlight, that takes root in every tree.
   Em
   They are pulled up by the magnet, believing they’re free.

R: The carpet crawlers... 
   
   Em
3. Mild mannered supermen are held in kryptonite,
   D                                           Em
   And the wise and foolish virgins giggle with their bodies glowing bright.
   D                                  Em
   Through a door a harvest feast is lit by candlelight;
   D                          Em
   It’s the bottom of a staircase that spirals out of sight.

R: The carpet crawlers...
   
   Em
4. The porcelain mannikin with shattered skin fears attack.
   D                                 Em
   The eager pack lift up their pitchers - they carry all they lack.
   D                               Em
   The liquid has congealed, which has seeped out through the crack,
   D                   Em
   And the tickler takes his stickleback.

R: The carpet crawlers...
   
   C  Dm  (4x)
   
   F#m                                     A
   The carpet crawlers heed their callers:
   G      A
   We’ve got to get in to get out
   G      D
   We’ve got to get in to get out
   C      G  D
   We’ve got to get in to get out ...