Time Turned Elastic Lyrics - Phish

In and out of focus, time turns elastic 

In and out of focus, in and out of focus, time turns elastic 

In and out of focus, in and out of focus, time turns... 

And when I stay too long, I went outside and stared 

Arms outstretched and long, moved straight across the sky (in and out 

of focus, in and out of focus) 

If I could wrap my arms around this globe 

Hands, touch the green and brown. 

I'd sink into the cool, cool ground (in and out of focus, in and out 

of focus) 

Seen all, seen all, seen all summer 

Seen all, seen all, seen all spring 

But, I'm a submarine, submarine sinks below the ground. 

A submarine 

I'm a submarine, submarine sinks below the ground. 

Now that the leaves 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 summers gone, and the reeds bow down 

As the colors change all along the waterline 

Oh... 

And when it's time the landslide will free what flows inside 

While all around the rocks collide, you finally see the lines 

That points towards 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 dark, it's sky is bleeding 

I feel the world turning upside down. 

These are the reasons that we lay down on the ground 

Drawn through the funnel, all the colors run together turning round. 

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. 

In cascading, the wind set the wheels in motion 

And it's turning in the mist around. 

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, a ship in the sun. 

While the blossoms all scream and it sleeps around me 

The earth and these memories yields around me. 

In and out of focus, time turns elastic, time turns... 

In and out of focus, time turns elastic, time turns... 

Touches these woods and these waters all paved with gold. 

Gleaming in daylight, their voices ring on. 

They're cold while they're 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 arising in the west around me 

And the carousel turns into breath around me. 

In and out of focus, time turns elastic, time turns... 

In and out of focus, time turns elastic, time turns... 

In and out of focus, time turns elastic, time turns... 

In and out of focus, time turns elastic, time turns...