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- Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!uvaarpa!mmdf
- From: David Douglas McCallum <kcjonz@wam.umd.edu>
- Subject: NICU Lyrics & Chords
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.015837.9632@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
- Sender: mmdf@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Mail System)
- Reply-To: kcjonz@wam.umd.edu
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 01:58:37 GMT
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- SSS TTT U U FFF FFF H H EEE A D
- S T U U F F H H E A A DD
- SSS T U U FF FF HHH EE AAA D D
- S T U U F F H H E A A DD
- SSS T U F F H H EEE A A D
- ^
- D"OH!
-
- Well, I'm sick as a dog...great way to celebrate
- the new year, huh? Anyway, I decided to do some
- transcribing with all this down time I have. The
- first song I tackled is one whose absence in recent
- set lists and probable fate was discussed here just a
- few posts ago...[did traffic thin out here, or WHAT!]
-
- NICU [debuted as "In An Intensive Care Unit" - 3/6/92]
- [ NICU stands for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ]
-
- Eb Db Eb [repeat]
- Appendages flailing, you're running at me
- Ferocious, tenaciously clawing at me
- The devious gelatin holding me fast
- Miraculous now you let me ooze past.
-
- Over the wall rushing rivers of sleaze
- The tip of stalactites incising my knees
- A slipper, a sand-dollar day at the shore
- Nice evening at home that I dread even more
-
- Ab Db
- Would you please make clear to me
- Ab Eb Ab
- I'm peering out through your opacity
- Ab Db
- Though you rehearse tomorrow's verse
- Ab Eb Ab
- Forgive me if I donUt sing in your key.
-
- Look back on those days when my life was a haze
- The gelatin lay on a truncated slate
- Copernicus drank from a vessel that stank
- The freemasons crank to the overflow tank
-
- Bane of the weasel, fur biting is 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
-
- Would you please make clear to me
- I'm peering out through your opacity
- Though you rehearse tomorrow's verse
- Forgive me if I donUt sing in your key.
-
- Would you please [In all that dust and stone]
- make clear to me [___ when you see me]
- Why nothing is the first thing that I see
- [??? (possibly "Don't go")]
- And if you do [In all that dirt and stone]
- and I see you [___ when you see me]
- Then you will be the nothing left for me
- [??? (possibly "Don't go")]
-
- ------
-
- God, I love that tune! And it's gone through a
- real transition from my earliest version [3/6/92]
- to the last one I have [4/21/92]. Does anyone
- have any later versions? Or any in between that
- they would recommend for a NICU junkie? Thanks.
-
- DMcC - Get this stuffy stuff outa my HEAD!
-