Lizard

[Part I: Prince Rupert Awakes (0:00-4:31)]

[Verse 1: Jon Anderson]

Farewell, the temple master's bells

His kiosk and his black worm seed

Courtship solely of his word

With Eden guaranteed

For now, Prince Rupert's tears of glass

Make saffron sabbath eyelids bleed

Scar the sacred tablet wax

On which the lizards feed

[Chorus: Jon Anderson]

Wake your reason's hollow vote

Wear your blizzard season coat

Burn a bridge and burn a boat

Stake a lizard by the throat

[Verse 2: Jon Anderson]

Go Polonius or kneel

The reapers name their harvest dawn

All your tarnished devil's spoons

Will rust beneath our corn

Now bears, Prince Rupert's garden roam

Across his rain tree shaded lawn

Lizard bones become the clay

And there, a swan is born

[Chorus: Jon Anderson]

Wake your reason's hollow vote

Wear your blizzard season coat

Burn a bridge and burn a boat

Stake a lizard by the throat

[Bridge: Jon Anderson]

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na

[Verse 3: Jon Anderson]

Gone soon, piepowder's moss-weed court

Round which upholstered lizards sold

Visions to their leaden flock

Of rainbows' ends and gold

Now tales Prince Rupert's peacock brings

Of walls and trumpets thousand-fold

Prophets chained for burning masks

And reels of dreams unrolled

[Outro: Jon Anderson]

Ah, ah-ah-ah

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Ah, ah-ah-ah

[Part II: Bolero - The Peacock's Tale (4:32-11:04)]

[Instrumental]

[Part III: The Battle of Glass Tears (11:05-22:06)]

[A: Dawn Song (11:05-13:25)]

[Verse 4: Gordon Haskell]

Night enfolds her cloak of holes

Around the river meadow

Old moon-light stalks by broken ploughs

Hides spokeless wheels in shadow

Sentries lean on thorn wood spears

Blow on their hands, stare eastwards

[Verse 5: Gordon Haskell]

Burnt with dream, and taut with fear

Dawn's misty shawl upon them

Three hills apart, great armies stir

Spit oath and curse, as day breaks

Forming lines of horse and steel

By even yards, march forward

[B: Last Skirmish (13:26-19:32)]

[Instrumental]

[C: Prince Rupert's Lament (19:33-22:06)]

[Instrumental]

[Part IV: Big Top (22:07-23:20)]

[Instrumental]