Guided By Voices - King Arthur the Red lyrics

Cells are crazy in the head, Needles buried in the red, For the king, for the dread. Animated freed, and fed To be wed. Violence, nature in the reigns Fear the vest, move the chains Tattoo priced by losses and gains Inconstant and deceitful It remains. From the cradle to the ledge Seven strokes from Heaven's edge Breathe the clock at Arthur's hedge