Epitaph, The Crimsinion Cradle.

Epitaph, greek word from epitaphios "a funeral oration".. is meant to link two sides, the very first one representing the below, the present side, and the second one the above, the metaphysical past side.. The use of the word “Epitaph is a microcosm of the entire album, same as the album, it travels through time, regardless of the fact that the album travels through one direction, future to past, while the song is a whole other deviation from past to future..

Epitaph is basically a song about looking with confusion upon a world who’s gone completely mad. King Crimson had an odd ability to write about the upcoming future in a massive prophetic way and the messages this song contains are even more relative today than they were when the song was originally written..

Along with the Epitaphian phenomena, comes a long list of mind-numbing music produced by King Crimson, those beautifully made melodies are narrowed into this :