| Phish – Bouncing Around the Room Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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This is a great song! It was a shame how so many die hard phish heads reacted with distaste for it when phish would play it at a show once it got radio play of the "a live one" version. The lyrics are some of Tom Marshal's finest, at par with the magnificance of the "Rift" album lyrics. It is indeed about a crush of sorts, for some dream induced fantasy girl. We have all had dreams of the sort where we win the lottery, or fly, or perform some other fantastic feat. It may all seem so lucid and real though we wake and find it was only a dream and our heart is still racing with the excitement of it all. Longing for the feeling of it once again without the dissapointing abrupt awakening. In the case of this song, the dream is of a woman, who effects a haunting desire in the dreamer. The effect of the mythological Sirens of the Sea; Beautiful voices who are said to sing to lost sailors, enchanting them into the water and ultimately their drowning in the depths of the blue. The dreamer gazes into her eyes and seems to dream within a dream, holding the hand of his Siren. When she whispers some secret enchantment, the dreamer awakes to find he was but dreaming. And faintly bouncing round our dreamer's thoughts (room..) is the echo of whatever she might have said. Whatever the beautiful utterance may have been it leaves that longing feeling for that lucid grasp of her hand and leads our dreamer to contemplate her time and again, sinking into the depths of his imaginative ocean and coral mazes of his heart and mind. The Lyrics are truely masterful. The composition of the song is so amazing too! As it breaks into the layered and echoing vocals and music, bringing us progressively deeper into the maze until we take that one final breath and its over. |
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