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All the way home we felt we had a chance
To review the coulds before we were born
And to invite a new game of can'ts
Absorbed in the clouds a voice from afar said
"With the right device you can make a pattern grow
Or you can tune up your car"
So we stayed on the train admiring the time
As the lights of the city drew near
We drank a little wine
They were blurry and green outer space in between
With a depth and a form unclear
Then we saw it up ahead
A flickering lantern lit up on the tracks
In the rugs that had covered up the bridge
From the banks of a river to the bed
Of the valley upstream to the place we live
The glass on the lantern cast back the sight
Of a drive-in movie we drove by below
We saw where we'd been in the pictures within
Projecting all the places we would go
So we follow the scene and flowed up your steps
To a smooth wooden floor in a trance
The train whistle melody woved through the trees
And in through the door to signal the turns of a dance
To review the coulds before we were born
And to invite a new game of can'ts
"With the right device you can make a pattern grow
Or you can tune up your car"
As the lights of the city drew near
We drank a little wine
With a depth and a form unclear
Then we saw it up ahead
In the rugs that had covered up the bridge
From the banks of a river to the bed
Of the valley upstream to the place we live
Of a drive-in movie we drove by below
We saw where we'd been in the pictures within
Projecting all the places we would go
So we follow the scene and flowed up your steps
To a smooth wooden floor in a trance
The train whistle melody woved through the trees
And in through the door to signal the turns of a dance
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I don't know what this song means either, but if you just listen to it.. it's beautiful.. so beautiful
i love this song, it's one of my favorite phish songs, but i've always wondered what the meaning of this song is
Very surreal lyrics, like someone writing a poem about a dream they had. Probably only meaningful personally to the person who wrote it. I feel like if Salvador Dali had been Phish's lyricist, he might have come up with a lot of songs with lyrics like this. I'm not much of a dream interpreter, but I think a helpful approach to a song like this might be: if someone had a dream that went like this, what might that say about them and what's going on in their life?