Idea

Phish Songs
#1

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Idea
(Gordon)

Sliding down that final stretch of highway
I pass beside you and my mind comes alive
Got to find a way to the person inside
Skip my turn and follow you to a city
I scale the walls of a highrise to the sky
And I see you yelling and I don’t know why

I’m hiding in that empty room
Behind a pile of impending doom
It must have been a bad idea; gotta stop stackin’ it up
I don’t know why I got so lost; and how long; I’ve been gone

You’re meeting with an owl tycoon at a conference table
Another sketch of a higher tower is drawn
And your voice is becoming my favorite song
As the knights of reason stand in the way clanging
I step out and plead until they take me away
But another idea begins to inflate

On chairs stacked up to your room
I serenade you with a thought balloon that says
It must have been a bad idea to start stacking it up
I don’t know why it got so lost; and how long; I’ve been gone

You built an ancient town from rocks and bones
On sand they find your glossy tower sheens
Waves crash up and the spires beam
From the top of the world you scope out what you know
But standing way up there makes you feel all alone
With the odds stacked against me I walk up slow

Piece by piece you break your wall down
And as it tumbles to the ground you say
It must have been a bad idea to keep stackin’ it up
I don’t know why I got so lost; and how long; I’ve been gone

#2

Obviously really rough last night, but this song has HUGE potential. Really nice melody, vocal range, instrumental segments…really great chorus too.

The outtro with Page/Trey is great too…kind of Heavy Thingsy, in a good way.

Mike tends to write vocal parts higher than his range, probably in part because of his love for bluegrass (just a theory). Even the main vocal line for Mike’s Song seems at the higher end of his sweet spot.

I think we are going to see big things out of this one this Summer!

#3

Totally agree with this. It’s really a nice change from most of the Trey material. Great potential once they get this smoothed out. Yeh boys!

#4

I want to hear this song again soon. I hope that it actually gets off the ground. It seems like new Mike songs are fated to be under-rehearsed, played very sparsely for a tour, and then largely forgotten: Round Room, Mock Song, Access Me, Sugar Shack…

#5

The Gordon studio version with horns is pretty sweet.

#6

^ Yes it is. From the Moss version I think the solo is a great fit for Trey. Haven’t listened to Phish’s version more than once and can’t really remember how the delivery went.