N.i.c.u. Lyrics - Phish: 1/2/2016 Madison Square Garden, New York, Ny - Phish

Appendages flailing, you're running at me 

Ferocious, tenaciously clawing at me 

The devious gelatin holding me fast 

Miraculous now you let me move past 

Over the wall rushing rivers of sleaze 

The tips of stalactites incising my knees 

A slipper, a sand dollar day at the shore 

Nice evening at home that I dread even more 

Would you please 

Make clear to me 

I'm peering out through your opacity 

Though you rehearse 

Tomorrow's verse 

Forgive me if I don't sing in your key 

Look back on those days when my life was a haze 

The gelatin lay on a truncated sleigh 

Copernicus drank from a vessel that stank 

The free masons crank to the overflow tank 

Bane of the weasel, for biding his fun 

Jump on the turnstile and watch me go 'round 

Swim with the cactus and float with the stone 

I try to convey what you strive to condone 

Da da, da da, da-da, da da doo 

Da da, da da, da-da, da da doo 

Da da, da da, da-da, da da da-da da da da da do 

Would you please 

Make clear to me 

I'm peering out through your opacity 

Though you rehearse 

Tomorrow's verse 

Forgive me if I don't sing in your key 

Would you please (In all that dust and stone) 

Make clear to me (And when you see me) 

Why nothing is the first thing that I see 

? 

And if you do (In all that dirt and stone) 

And I see you (And when you see me) 

Then you will be the nothing left for me 

?