One More Red Nightmare

About One More Red Nightmare

"One More Red Nightmare" is a song by progressive rock band King Crimson, the third track on their 1974 album Red. It was the first released track to have lyrics by bassist/vocalist John Wetton. The vocal sections are in 4/4 time, with instrumental sections in 15/8, 7/4, and 12/8. Parts of the song have a proto-heavy metal feel, and the track features the alto saxophone playing of former band member Ian McDonald. The song is about a nightmare inspired by the fear of flying, and tells the story of a man who falls asleep on a Greyhound bus ("Really safe and sound/Asleep on the Greyhound"). The character in the story dreams that he's riding in an airplane, presumably at an altitude of ten thousand feet ("Ten thousand feet funfair"), which begins to dive toward the ground ("When altitude dropping/My ears started popping"). The character awakes just before the plane hits the ground. The song ends very suddenly, as if the master tape had been cut, similar to the ending of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" from the Beatles' Abbey Road. more »

Year:

1991

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Pan american nightmare
Ten thousand feet fun-fair
Convinced that I don't care
It's safe as houses I swear
I was just sitting musing
The virtues of cruising
When altitude dropping
My ears started popping
One more red nightmare

Sweat beginning to pour down
My neck as I turn round
I heard fortune shouting
Get off of this outing

A farewell swan song
See you know how turbulence can be
The stewardess made me 
But the captain forbid me
One more red nightmare

Reality stirred me
My angel had heard me
The prayer had been answered
A reprieve has been granted

The dream was now broken
Though rudely awoken
Really safe and sound
Asleep on the greyhound
One more red nightmare

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King Crimson

King Crimson are a rock band founded in London in 1968 by members from western England. Widely recognised as a foundational progressive rock group, the band have incorporated diverse influences and instrumentation during their history (including jazz and folk music, classical and experimental music, psychedelic rock, hard rock and heavy metal,New Wave, gamelan, electronica and drum and bass). They have been influential on many contemporary musical artists and have gained a large following, despite garnering little radio or music video airplay. more »

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