Cavern Lyrics by Phish

Cavern Lyrics

    Your time is near, the mission's clear
    It's later than we think
    Before you slip into the night
    You'll want something to drink
    Steal away before the dawn, and
    Bring us back good news
    But if you've tread in primal soup
    Please wipe it from your shoes

    Just then a porthole pirate
    Scourged the evening with his cry
    And sanctuary bugs deprived
    The monkey of its thigh
    A dust arose and clogged my nose
    Before i could blink twice
    Despite the stuff that bubbled up
    I gave some last advice:

    The flesh from satan's dogs
    Will make the rudiments of gruel

    Deduct the carrots from your pay
    You worthless swampy fool

    Exploding then through fields and fen
    And swimming in the mire
    The septic maiden's gargoyle tooth
    Demented me with fire
    I drifted where the current chose
    Afloat upon my back
    And if perchance a newt slimed by
    I'd stuff it in my sack

    Soon i felt a bubble form, somewhere below my skin
    But with handy spine of hedgehog
    I removed the force within
    Suzie then removed her mask
    And caused a mighty stir
    The angry mob responded
    Taking turns at grabbing her

    The foggy cavern's musty grime
    Appeared within my palm
    I snatched rick's fork to scrape it off
    With deadly icy calm

    [(original lyrics - from 4.22.90)
    The brothel wife then grabbed a knife
    And slashed me on the tongue
    I turned the blade back on the bitch
    And dropped her in the dung]

    The crowd meanwhile had taken sue
    And used her like a rag
    To mop the slime from where the slug
    Had slithered with the bag

    In summing up, the moral seems
    A little bit obscure...

    Give the director a serpent deflector
    A mudrat detector, a ribbon reflector
    A cushion convector, a pitcher of nectar *
    A virile dissector,a hormone collector

    * or "a penile erector" (4.22.90, 10.31.90), or "a picture of nectar"

    Whatever you do take care of your shoes


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