thank you, I'm hard of hearing in one ear and might have had something like ADD -- it's always an epiphany when I actually learn the lyrics! Like that song from Bruce Springsteen/Manfred Man...."little early birdie....etc."
Yeah, that's a tough one! On purpose, too, I think!
I was big on Brain Salad Surgery when I was a teenager in the late 70s. My friends were into Frampton, Aerosmith, etc. at that time, and they didn't know what to make of ELP -- that was for the "college kids".
As for lyrics, there are so many sites for that particular brand of scatology on the web now, all I did was go to google.com, enter "karn evil 9 lyrics" and hit return. E-Z and fun.