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1. This crowd pleaser has been played 376 times making it their third most played song. The most famous lyric goes:
"I saw you
With a ticket stub in your hand"
2. This song was begged for by "phans" during the two years after Phish's hiatus and before the band decided to call it quits. However, the band never busted it out at a show. Some of the lyrics from this song are:
"The banker said, 'I ain't got that
But I sure got some powerful pills.'"
3. This song always includes a nice little story told by Trey right in the middle when the band plays it live. The crowd goes crazy when they sing this line:
"We're coming to your town
We'll help you party down!"
4. On most tapes including this song, the Phish crowd can be heard screaming along at the top of their lungs to the end of this line:
"Here comes the joker
we all must laugh
cause we're all in this together
and we love to take a bath"
5. Phish's fifth most played song ever (appearing 353 times or 29% of all shows played) this tune includes the following line:
"The flesh from Satan's dogs
Will make the rudiments of gruel
Deduct the carrots from your pay
You worthless swampy fool"
6. A little bluegrass song that was written by the band's bass player Mike Gordon. The song is supposedly about when someone stole Mike's four-track machine during college. Part of the lyrics are as follows:
"You won't steal my tape recorder
I'll call the Lord and he'll put you in the pen
You won't steal that thing again"
7. This song tells a story that many Phish phans easily relate to. The desire to hold on to your youthful ways and lack of responsibility even when adulthood is knocking at your door. Lyrics include:
"Confuse what you can of the ending
And revise your despise so impending
'Cause I soak on the wrath
That you didn't quite mask
I'm getting it clearly through alternate paths
Or mixed in with the signal you're sending"
8. This ballad may not be many phans' favorite tune, but most consider it a nice enough song. It does have some very nice lyrics including:
"If time were only part of the equation
Then you could draw the bound'ries of our cage
You wouldn't pile another stone upon me
And I'd be happy just to watch you age"
9. This song's lyrics are about a man on his knee preparing to propose to his girlfriend. As he does he considers the weight of what it means and the pressure grows in him. The song's music mimics the man's own emotions, starting off slow and peaceful, but building to a final eruption in which the music is speeding along and the story ends in the following result:
"The skin that drips down from the tree
And peels back slowly from your knee
Erupts into your lung and heart
You laugh and laughing fall apart"
10. This song grew out of a combination of two songs that Phish had messed around with in studio sessions and soundchecks, but that had never really taken off. However, when the two ideas were combined they created the song from which the following lyrics are taken:
"Lingering slowly melting away
Tossed with the salad and baled with the hay
Pooling like water that drips from above
Trampled by lambs pecked by the dove "
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