What Are The Carpet Crawlers

Genesis playing the carpet crawlers in concert.

What are the carpet crawlers.

The carpet crawlers heed their callers. And the themes this particular part centers on are ones of conformity false hope and drudgery. 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.

So all things considered this track reads like a criticism of those who blindly follow societal ideologies. 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 song was written almost entirely by peter gabriel. Through a door a harvest feast is lit by candlelight.

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. The colorful and artistic language used throughout relays a story which is but a segment of a much larger narrative. Genesis playing the carpet crawlers in concert. 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.

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. And that is the carpet crawlers in a nutshell. This time he discovers a long carpeted corridor.