Genesis The Carpet Crawlers Meaning

Mike rutherford and tony banks wrote most of the music with the help of peter gabriel.

Genesis the carpet crawlers meaning.

Lyrically the song tells the section of the album s story whereby rael the lead character finds himself in. We ve got to get in to get out we ve got to get in to get out. The crawlers cover the floor in the red ochre corridor. It s all part of the story of rael.

Carpet crawlers as well as most of the lamb album is about escaping the new w. They re moving in time to a heavy wooden door where the needle s eye is winking closing in on the poor. One amazing and cool song by genesis that for me it s about a foreign southern kid coming in and out of the new strange land of the north boston new york etc looking up in amazement and tripping on his feet then looking down and seeing all of those old carpet baggers coming out of the woodwork where he s also imagining and thinking how in the hell he s going to shake off all of. Allora i carpet crawlers strisciano verso questa porta ma non tutti passeranno.

The carpet crawlers are sperm the red ochre corridor is the vagina needle s winking eye is perhaps the opening of the vagina or cervix only one direction is towards the waiting egg the spiral staircase is the fallopian tube the porcelain manquin is maybe the egg itself and the clincher you ve got to get in to get out. Where the needle s eye is winking closing on the poor significa che il passaggio attraverso questa porta si chiuderà sulle persone più povere the poor il miserabile il povero come un occhio sbatte la palpebra aprendosi e chiudendosi. That version was released in 1999. This particular version is referred to as the carpet crawl not the carpet crawlers and is featured on genesis 1977 albums seconds out and genesis.

The carpet crawlers heed their callers. The lyrics of carpet crawlers sound a lot like sperm reaching an egg but it can be summed up as you ve got to get in to get out.