Lyrics The Great Deceiver - Live (Pittsburgh, PA - Stanley Warner Theatre: April 29th, 1974) - King Crimson

Health-food faggots with a bartered bride
To comb his hair with a dipper ride
Once, had a friend with a cloven foot
Once, he called the tune "In a chequered suite"

Great deceiver

In the door, in the floor, in a paper bag
There's a shoe-shine boy, with a gin-shop slag
She raised him up, 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
Golden smile and a proposition
The breath of God smells of sweet sedition

Great deceiver

Sing hymns, make love, get high, fall dead
Bring his perfume to your bed
He'll charm your life, 'til the cold winds blows
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
Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary

Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary
Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary