Cavern Lyrics - Picture Of Nectar - Phish

Your time is near, the mission's clear 

It's later than we think 

Before you slip into the night 

You'll want something to drink 

Steal away before the dawn, and 

Bring us back good news 

But if you've tread in primal soup 

Please wipe it from your shoes 

Just then a porthole pirate 

Scourged the evening with his cry 

And sanctuary bugs deprived 

The monkey of its thigh 

A dust arose and clogged my nose 

Before I could blink twice 

Despite the stuff that bubbled up 

I gave some last advice: 

The flesh from Satan's dogs 

Will make the rudiments of gruel 

Deduct the carrots from your pay 

You worthless swampy fool 

Exploding then through fields and fen 

And swimming in the mire 

The septic maiden's gargoyle tooth 

Demented me with fire 

I drifted where the current chose 

Afloat upon my back 

And if perchance a newt slimed by 

I'd stuff it in my sack 

Soon I felt a bubble form, Somewhere below my skin 

But with handy spine of hedgehog 

I removed the force within 

Suzie then removed her mask 

And caused a mighty stir 

The angry mob responded 

Taking turns at grabbing her 

The foggy cavern's musty grime 

Appeared within my palm 

I snatched Rick's fork to scrape it off 

With deadly icy calm 

The brothel wife then grabbed a knife 

And slashed me on the tongue 

I turned the blade back on the bitch 

And dropped her in the dung] 

The crowd meanwhile had taken Sue 

And used her like a rag 

To mop the slime from where the slug 

Had slithered with the bag 

In summing up, the moral seems 

A little bit obscure... 

Give the director a serpent deflector 

A mudrat detector, a ribbon reflector 

A cushion convector, a picture of nectar 

A virile dissector,a hormone collector 

Whatever you do take care of your shoes