VROOOM is a six-track mini-album (EP) released in 1994 on Robert Fripp's Discipline Global Mobile label. It was the first recording by the reunited King Crimson since Three of a Perfect Pair (1984) — a decade-long silence — and served as the announcement of a new era. The band had expanded from a quartet to a "double trio": the classic '80s lineup of Fripp, Belew, Levin, and Bruford augmented by drummer Pat Mastelotto and stick player Trey Gunn.
Recorded during rehearsals at a facility in Woodstock, New York in late 1993 and early 1994, VROOOM captured the band finding its new voice. The material ranges from dense, abrasive instrumentals rooted in the dark energy of the 1973–74 era to the melodic pop songcraft of the '80s lineup. All six tracks were later re-recorded or re-used on the full-length album THRAK (1995); VROOOM the track appears in a slightly longer form there.
The EP's title echoes the onomatopoeic naming that had long characterized King Crimson — raw, non-literary, kinetic. As Fripp described it, the double-trio concept was about two bands playing simultaneously, each with its own internal logic, creating a texture that neither could achieve alone.
Dinosaur
long ago and far away in a different age when i was a dumb young guy fossilized photos of my life then illustrate what an easy prey i must have been standing in the sun, idiot savant something like a monument i'm a dinosaur, somebody is digging my bones ignorance has always been something i excel in followed by naivete and pride doesn't take a scientist to see how any clever predator could have a piece of me standing in the sun, idiot savant something like a monument i'm a dinosaur, somebody is digging my bones when i look back on the past it's a wonder i'm not yet extinct all the mistakes and bad judgements i made nearly pushed me to the brink it doesn't pay to be too nice it's the one thing i have learned still, i made my fossil bed now i toss and turn i'm a dinosaur, somebody is digging my bones
Walking on Air
close your eyes and look at me i'll be standing by your side in between the deep blue sea and the sheltering sky if we find no words to say to the rhythm of the waves then we'll both surrender there walking on air and the worries of the day lie down under cover of the fading clouds the secrets of the night come alive in your eyes you don't have to hurry you don't have to try cause you don't have a care you're walking on air