Phish

[fox69]

"Running Out Of Time"

"Running Out Of Time"


A flash of light
Another moment stolen from my soul
A thunderclap
Again I must surrender all control

Sudden noises startle me
And strange things in my mind
Haunt me and I'm running scared
Running out of time
Running out of time

There are days when sunlight
Seems to lift me from my bed
And other times I face the light
With eyelids full of lead

Light and dark pass quickly by
With no dividing line
I follow but I'm running scared
Running out of time
Running out of time
Running out of time
Running out of time
[x2]

 

[fox69]

"Sample In A Jar"

"Sample In A Jar"


It's hidden far away
But someday I may tell
The tale of metal tangle
When into your world I fell
Without you now I wander soaking
Secretly afraid
'Cause in your grasp the fears don't last
(And some of them have stayed)

I wheeled around because I
Didn't hear what you had said
And saw you dancing with Elihu
Up on Leemor's bed
And I was foggy rather groggy, you helped me to my car
The binding belt enclosing me, a Sample in a Jar

And on the market stands unfolding
With all their willies and their wares
I shuffle by alert but numb
To all the glances and the glares
And I think of you unheeding
All the times I raise my cup
It's now I know that you knew that
I'd soon end up end up

[Chorus]

You tricked me like the others
And now I don't belong
The simple smiles and good times seem all wrong

 

[fox69]

"Sand"

"Sand"


If you can heal the symptoms
But not affect the cause
It's quite a bit like trying to heal
A gunshot wound with gauze

If you instead attempt to wrest
The pistol from the hand
Then I would not be able to
Equate my life with sand

Flowing through the hourglass
Pushing through the funnel
Turn once more while racing
All your siblings for the tunnel

Slide and let the silicone
Embrace you as you fall
Then bounce and land you let
Your brothers crush you to the wall

I would choose my own religion
And worship my own spirit
But if he ever preached to me
I wouldn't want to hear it

I'd drop him, a forgotten god,
Languishing in shame
And then if I hit stormy seas
I'd have myself to blame

 

[fox69]

"Scent Of A Mule"

"Scent Of A Mule"


Kitty Malone sat on a mule
Was riding in style
When suddenly, like the sound of a buzzard's breaking
Kity felt laser beams being fired at her head
She said, "I hate laser beams
And you never done see me askin'
For a UFO
In Tomahawk County"

Well she kicked the mule
And it walked the path
And the aliens fired from behind
Till she stopped the mule
And she kicked the rump
And the big old mule took a big old dump

Scent of a mule, you better watch out where you go
Take your laser beams away
Scent of a mule, you better watch out where you go
You better stop that laser game
Or you'll smell my mule

She felt the fire against her neck
And it saddened her to feel it burn
When suddenly, like the sound of a breeding Holstein
Kitty said, "Stop, we ain't lookin' for fightin'
In Tomahawk County."

A little guy from the UFO
Came on out and said his name was Joe
She said, "Come on over for some lemonade
Just follow me now with the whole brigade"

[Chorus]

They walked into her cabin shack
They had never seen a southern home
And they liked it, better than their UFO
They liked it, they really liked it
They said, "Here's a place of elegance
Here we shower ourselves in lightness"

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Scents And Subtle Sounds"

"Scents And Subtle Sounds"


If you would stop and notice that we number every day
But allow the many moments left uncounted slip away

You don't have to count them, just enjoy them one by one
Then things would take a different hue and sparkle in the sun
The winds would lift you up into the sky

The wsinds would lift you up into the sky above
Where you would see a trail of treasured memories you love
A rainbow record of the thoughts and moments you've enjoyed
Arcs behind the earth as spectral colors in the void

In the void
Scents and subtle sounds

 

[fox69]

"Scents And Subtle Sounds (Intro)"

"Scents And Subtle Sounds (Intro)"


If you would only start to live
One moment at a time
You would, I think, be startled
By the things that you would find.

Like Scents you never noticed
And many subtle sounds
Like colors in the landscape
And textures of the town

Then the winds would lift you up
Into the sky above
And you'd be treted to a view
Of everything you love
And if the moment passes
You should try it once again
For if you do it right
You'll find the moment never ends

 

[fox69]

"Secret Smile"

"Secret Smile"


Sometimes when the evening's young
The wind dies down, the setting sun
Crochets the clouds with yarn so fine
And fills the oceans with red win
The trees, the sky, the forest fair
Bring a flavor to the air
I raise my glass and in a while
You answer with a secret smile
Hold on, hold on to me
An airborne leaf that landed near Has carried Dionysus here
He'll slip away but only when
He sees our glasses filled again

 

[fox69]

"Seven Below"

"Seven Below"


Blue, splinter and grow
New crystals of snow
Seen several kinds
Through seven below

 

[fox69]

"Shade"

"Shade"


I found a ring deep inside a box on a dead-end street
And you were there watching me
But I didn’t know I couldn’t see
I was lost, asleep inside a fantasy

I love your hair in the mornings, you know
You love to run wild, and let the mane flow
But you run away, but we meet again soon
South of the border and over the moon

And when you’re gone it never feels right
Gets so cold in the dark of the night
And I only like the shade when you’re blocking the light
I only like the shade when you’re blocking the light

I put the ring, back where it belongs
It feels right, and you were waiting up all night
I didn’t know, if I went away
And got lost, that you’d still be there anyway

I figured out what you whispered last night
Somewhere the clouds touch the mountains just right
Somewhere we’re dancing and you’re singing the tune
South of the border and over the moon

And when you’re gone it never feels right
It gets so cold in the dark of the night
And I only like the shade when you’re blocking the light
I only like the shade when you’re blocking the light

 

[fox69]

"Shafty"

"Shafty"


The terrible thing about hell
Is that when you're there you can't even tell
As you move through this life you love so
You could be there and not even know

But you say so what I'm doing just fine
The irony is that it's all in your mind
And that's why hell is so vicious and cruel
But you'll just go on an oblivious fool