The Squirming Coil - Phish

The Squirming Coil of sunset

I keep within my reach

Tried yesterday to get away

And hitchhiked to the beach

I saw Satan on the beach

Trying to catch a ray

He wasn’t quite the speed of light

And the squirming coil

It got away…

The muscles flex the mother’s ring

She fastens children to her king

And sends him down the crooked street

When he returns, the birth’s complete

Jimmy holds the Tannis root

The forest’s tasty nectar shoot

The sun tips off the monarch’s suit

From sequined sash to shiny boot

«I'd like to lick the coil some day

Like Icarus, who had to pay

With melting wax and feathers brown

He tasted it on his way down»

Stun the puppy!

Burn the whale!

Bark a scruff and go to jail!

Forge the coin and lick the stamp!

Little Jimmy’s off to camp