Dark Star / China Cat Sunflower / The Eleven (Live at Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, March 16, 1967)

[Part I: Dark Star]

[Verse 1]
Dark star crashes
Pouring its light into ashes
Reason tatters
The forces tear loose from the axis
Searchlight casting
For faults in the clouds of delusion

[Refrain]
Shall we go, you and I, while we can
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2]
Mirror shatters
In formless reflections of matter
Glass hand dissolving
In ice petal flowers revolving
Lady in velvet
Recedes in the nights of goodbye

[Refrain]
Shall we go, you and I, while we can
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds

[Part II: China Cat Sunflower]

[Verse 1]
Look for a while at the china cat sunflower
Proud walking jingle in thе midnight sun
Copperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono
Likе a crazy quilt stargown through a dream night wind

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2]
Krazy Kat peeking through a lace bandanna
Like a one-eyed cheshire, like a diamond-eye jack
A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle
To a double-e waterfall over my back

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
Comic book colors on a violin river
Crying a lot of words from out a silk trombone
I rang a silent bell, beneath a shower of pearls
In the eagle-winged palace of the Queen Chinee

[Instrumental Break]

[Part III: The Eleven]

[Verse]
No more time to tell how
This is the season of what
(Eight-sided whispering hallelujah hatrack)
Now is the time of returning
With our thought jewels polished and gleaming
(Six proud walkers on the jingle-bell rainbow)
Now is the time past believing
The child has relinquished the reign
(Five men writing in fingers of gold)
Now is the test of the boomerang
Tossed in the night of redeeming

[Instrumental Outro]