Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song The Great Deceiver , by - King Crimson. Release date: 28.03.1974
Song language: English
The Great Deceiver |
| Health-food faggot with a bartered bride |
| Likes to comb his hair with a dipper ride |
| Once had a friend with a cloven foot |
| Once he called the tune in a chequered suit |
| Great Deceiver |
| In the door on the floor in a paper bag |
| There’s a shoe-shine boy with a gin-shop slag |
| She raised him up and she called him son |
| And she canonised the ground that he walked upon |
| Great Deceiver |
| Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary |
| Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary |
| Cigarettes, ice cream, cadillacs blue jeans |
| In the night he’s a star in the Milky Way |
| He’s a man of the world by the light of day |
| A golden smile and a proposition |
| And the breath of God smells of sweet sedition |
| Great Deceiver |
| Sing hymns make love get high fall dead |
| He’ll bring his perfume to your bed |
| He’ll charm your life 'til the cold winds blow |
| Then he’ll sell your dreams to a picture show |
| Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary |
| Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary |
| Cadillacs, blue jeans, dixieland playing on the ferry |
| Cadillacs, blues jeans, drop a glass full of antique sherry |