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NICU Lyrics

Appendages flailing, you're running at me
Ferocious, tenaciously clawing at me
The devious gelatin holding me fast
Miraculous now you let me move (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

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

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
Make clear to me
Why nothing is the first thing that I see
And if you do
And I see you
Then you will be the nothing left for me
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Cover art for NICU lyrics by Phish

how do YOU interpret 'nicu'? NiCu? n__ intensive care unit? "and i see you"? etc. i'm curious to know if anyone knows definitively what it means.

Cover art for NICU lyrics by Phish

"And I see you" sounds like NICU, or NI is the symbol for nickel in the periodic table, and Cu is copper, so it can be interpretted as nickels and pennies.

Cover art for NICU lyrics by Phish

or "small change" - yeah, that's one interpretation that i've heard.

Cover art for NICU lyrics by Phish

It means that place where premature babies are keep. They're keep in the NICU- Nresomething or other Intensive Care Unit.

Cover art for NICU lyrics by Phish

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Cover art for NICU lyrics by Phish

It's double meanings like everything. Really early versions, they titled the song Intensive Care Unit, however they subsequently addedd lyrics like: "And if you do And I see you" (ala N' I C U)