Phish Album

Happy happy, oh my friend
Blow out candles once again
Leave the presents all inside
Take my hand and let's take a ride

Backwards down the number line
You were eight and I was nine
Do you know what happened then
Do you know why we're still friends

Laughing all these many years
We've pushed through hardships tasted tears
We made a promise one to keep
I can still recite it in my sleep

Every time a birthday comes
Call your friend and sing a song
Or whisper it into his ears
Or write it down just don't miss a year

You decide what it contains
How long it goes
But this remains
The only rule is it begins
Happy happy, oh my friend

You decide what it contains
How long it goes
But this remains
The only rule is it begins

And all my friends come
Backwards down the number line

All my friends come
Backwards down the number line

All my friends come
Backwards down the number line

All my friends

You decide what it contains
How long it goes
But this remains
The only rule is it begins
Happy happy, oh my friend

You decide what it contains
How long it goes
But this remains
The only rule is it begins

And all my friends come
Backwards down the number line

Got a blank space where my mind should be
Got a Clif Bar and some cold green tea
Got clouds that seem to follow me
Got strange demands piled up on me
Got memories
Memories of being free

Gonna steal time from the faulty plan
Gonna act as though I'm still a man
Gonna give you one last chance to see
Gonna shrug demands off of me
Gonna dream
Dream of being free

Gonna steal time from the faulty plan
Got a blank space where my mind should be

Joy is over there in her incredible clothes
She has silver silk shimmering down to her toes
I was doing the best that I can I suppose
But that little girl dancer eventually grows
She grows

You can't imagine all the times that I tried
To uncover the source of the tears that you cried
Let's throw it away and just go for a ride
And you'd say ok but you'd keep it inside
And I tried

We want you to be happy
Don't live inside the gloom
We want you to be happy
Come step outside your room
We want you to be happy
Cause this is your song too

I never thought I could have it so good
You were the song that my soul understood
But time is a river that flows through the woods
And it led us to places we both understood
Would be gone
Before too long

When we were young we thought life was a game
But then somebody leaves you and you're never the same
All of the places and people belong
To the puzzle but one of the pieces is gone
And it's you
Joy, it's you

We want you to be happy
Don't live inside the gloom
We want you to be happy
Come step outside your room
We want you to be happy
Cause this is your song too

In time we'll weather this storm
Inside together you'll see the change
When the sun shines through

We want you to be happy
Don't live inside the gloom
We want you to be happy
Come step outside your room
We want you to be happy
‘Cause this is your song too

Standing on the edge of a cliff
I start to slip
Don't mind if I slide off

Now I feel my mood start to lift
I find my grip
And the screaming fades away below

I grab myself and spin me around
I start to sprint
I climb down to steadier ground

If I could bushwack it on back to the shack
Behind those hills
I'll find the world is finally still

Run through pale dark words to
That sugar shack

Breathe warm steam and hide
In that old sugar shack

Boiling heat
Maple steam
Frozen Snow
Then it Flows

When you leave
Your maple dream
Wait 'till spring
To go again

Mosaic of lies
I tried to arrange
In ways that sheltered the blame

I thought I might have made off clear
With all of the loot
I plucked and ate all the fruit

Then I started hearing the yells
As shattering plates
Drowned out by your slithering stares

I was followed and chased and caught and tied up
By the hate
Right until I made my escape

Run through pale dark words to
That sugar shack

Breathe warm steam and hide
In that old sugar shack

Ocelot, ocelot where have you gone?
Morning is over and noon slouches on.
Your stripes could all fade in the poisonous day,
When you see the sunlight, move out of the way.

You prance with the beasts who parade every night,
And silently slouch through the forest by light.
Don't be the only one left on the block,
Come hide in the herd and float with the flock.

Ocelot, ocelot where are you now?
You never listen to me anyhow.
You wandered and amble you walk now you run,
Knowing you'll bake like a snake in the sun.

You prance with the beasts to parade every night,
And silently slouch through the forest by light.
Don't be the only one left on the block,
Come hide in the herd and float with the flock.

Ocelot, ocelot where are you now?
Won't you come out to play?
Ocelot, ocelot where are you now?
Won't you come out to play?
Ocelot, ocelot where are you now?
Won't you come out to play?
Ocelot, ocelot where are you now?
Won't you come out to play?

just got back from kill devil falls
draped my water logged clothes in the hall
reach for a beer, glad that I'm here
when I realize that you're not around.

turn on some music and then the tv
go thru the pile of mail waiting for me
something I spy makes me pull it aside
a letter from your hometown

how could you leave me, you heard what I said
I'll be at the waterfall clearing my head
soaking up nature and thinking of you
but leaving's the last thing I thought you would do
I didn't plan to stop at the bar
but kill devil falls is really so far
who knew a day would turn into a week

but I learned my lesson
I can still remember the last one
this time will be different
until I do it again

stared at the ceiling for over a day
but none of my questions are answered this way
won't make any calls I'll just bounce off the walls
'til I go back to kill devil falls

how could you leave me, you heard what I said
I'll be at the waterfall clearing my head
soaking up nature and thinking of you
and leaving's the last thing I thought you would do
I didn't plan to stop at the bar
but kill devil falls is really so far
who knew a day would turn into a week

but I learned my lesson
and yes I still remember the last one
this time will be different
this time will be different

and I stand at the face of the mountain
(don't follow me)
and I step right up to the cliff side
(can I learn how to lead)
and staring into the future
(tell me what do you see)
this time's gonna be different

(oh oh oh)
don't go back to kill devil falls
(oh oh oh)
don't go back to kill devil falls
(oh oh oh)
don't go back to kill devil falls
(oh oh oh)
don't go back to kill devil falls

but I learned my lesson
I can still remember the last one
this time will be different

don't go back to kill devil falls (repeat into jam)

I can see the light between me and my mind
I can feel memories fall behind
And the light is growing brighter now
And the light is growing brighter now

I see the future is less and less there
And the past has vanished in the air
And I'm left and I'm now with a wondrous glow
I think I'm still me
But how would you know?

I can see the light between me and my mind
I can feel memories fall behind
And the light is growing brighter now
And the light is growing brighter now

It takes a few moments of whirling around
'Til your feet finally leave the ground
And fending off fears and hearing the call
And finally waiting for nothing at all

I can see the light between me and my mind
I can feel memories fall behind
And the light is growing brighter now
And the light is growing brighter now
And the light is growing brighter now
And the light is growing brighter now

Obstacles are stepping-stones
That guide us to our goals
Fences are filters
That purify our souls

I been around a while
I lived in town a while
I threw it down a while
And the town threw down on me

(Still here)
(Oh yeah)

I been around a while
I lived in town a while
I threw it down a while
And the town threw down on me

I been around a while
I lived in town a while
I threw it down a while
And the town threw down on me

In and out of focus
Time turns elastic

And when I'd stayed too long
I went outside and stared
Arms outstretched and long
Moved straight across the sky

If I could wrap my arms around this globe
Hands, touch the green and brown
I'd sink into the cool, cool ground

Seen all, seen all, seen all summer
Seen all, seen all, seen all spring

But I'm a submarine
And the submarine sinks below
The ground

Now that the leaves have turned to gold
The moments all glow
Frozen and free from time

And out here on my own
I watch it ebb and flow

Here, with the fire burning low
In the honey mist that breathes
Crooked maple fingers trembling all around
I feel the winds that blow

Out here between the dark and light
The summer's gone, and the reeds bow down
As the colors change
All along the water line

And when it's time the landslide will free what froze inside
While all around the rocks collide
You finally see the lines
That point toward the light that never dies

Melody, shelter in the darkness
Take hold of me now
Memory, trapped in a corner
Dark fingers are long

But all around streaming down
Rays of blue light, calling out

These silver sounds are raining down on me
Here on the wheel, the rhythm's turning all around
Up above the darkened sky is bleeding
I feel the world turning upside down

These are the reasons that we lay down on the ground
Drawn through a funnel, all the colors run together
Turning brown

Wait for the waves to come and carry me away
Down on the ground the sounds of voices in the echoes seem to say

And as the carousel circles unceasingly
Watch while the ripples decay in this rolling time
And cascading, the winds set the wheels in motion
And it's turning in the mist around me
Rolling and turning into the mist around me

Kissed by the water and held in your mother's arms
Green where you tumble and roll in these fields
The shapes of the bodies that shift in the sun
While the blossoms all scream and it sleeps around me
The earth in these memories heals around me

In and out of focus
Time turns elastic

Touches these woods and these waters all paved with gold
Gleaming in daylight the voices ring on
They pull while the pointing lay down in the storm
And this life is bending and swelling around me

Rolling and turning into the mist around me
The winds all rising in the west around me
And the carousel turns into breath around me

In and out of focus
Time turns elastic

I can hold my breath for a minute or so
Five days without food is as long as I'll go
I didn't sleep once for four days and three nights
I once didn't stop for seven red lights
I jumped into water that's fifty degrees
I rowed in a kayak in thirty-foot seas
I stayed in the woods for a week with a knife
A flint when I lost it nearly cost me my life
Twenty years later…
I'm still upside down

It's a small world
And it's turning real fast
Here upside down
It's a new day
And the mourning has passed
Turned upside down
It's a short road
But the mountains are tall
Land upside down
It's a small world
But we all start out small

I hurtle through air though I feel I'm alone
I stick with the others to the skin of the stone
I stop for a stranger just to give him a lift
I cling like a lizard to the side of the cliff
I treat every minute like an hour and then
It seems like a year has just flashed by again
We build a foundation but where do we stand
When all air is water and all water is land
Twenty years later…
I'm still upside down

And it's a small world
And it's turning real fast
Here upside down
It's a new day
And the mourning has passed
Turned upside down
It's a short road
But the mountains are tall
Land upside down
It's a small world
But we all start out small

Feel it turning in circles
And you're never the same again
Spin slowly while sounds cascade
And became
I'm here upside down

It's a small world
And it's turning real fast
Here upside down
It's a new day
And the mourning has passed
Here upside down
It's a short road
But the mountains are tall
Land upside down
It's a small world
But then we all start out small

Inside this silent scene
All are free, all are free
Second time around