Monday, March 2, 2009

Amon Duul II

Anyone hear of these guys before? This song is from 1971.

2 comments:

Dert said...

As the friend who pointed this out to me said, "If ever I find occasion to ride a horse through a field waving a sword defiantly, this will surely be my soundtrack."

Here are the lyrics:

When the everywhere-eye
Asks you who is the emperor of the sky
Take the archangel's thunderbird

Go to Edgar Allen in the tower of sleep
He'll tell you a story which makes you to creep
The echo of your cries is falling so deep

Rent a destroyer and sail to Cape Cod
There lives a lion, they call him God
There is no elevator to Eden, but a hole in the sky

In shock-corridors
People are standing
With their eyes in their hands

But they don't understand
Don't get that your confessional
Flare into the vaulting flight of stairs

Baiting soldiers sleeping in melting house of wax
Why is the audience not taking the insurrection-axe
Thousands of windows burst open
And alarm bells are broken

General Ursus said...

Ray likes these guys. I sort of think of them as a class below CAN in the psychodelic Kraut Rock category.