Phish: Lizards

Passing through the corridor i came upon an aging knightWho leaned against the wall in gnarly armorHe was on his way to see the kingWilsonWilsonWilsonHe led me through the streets of prussia talkingAs he tried to crush a bug that scurried underneath his bootheelHe said there was a place where we should goSo he lead me through the forest to the edge of a lagoon by whichWe wandered 'til we reached a bubbly springThe knight grew very quiet as we stood thereThen he lifted up his visor and he turned to me and he began to singChorus:He said i come from the land of darknessI said i come from the land of doomHe said i come from the land of gamehendgeFrom the land of the big baboonBut i'm never never going back thereAnd i couldn't if i tried'cause i come from the land of lizardsAnd the lizards they have diedAnd the lizards they have diedAnd the lizards they have diedAnd the lizards they have diedHe told me that the lizards were a race of people practically extinctFrom doing things smart people don't doHe said that he was once a lizard tooHis name was rutherford the brave and he was on a quest to saveHis people from the fate that lay before them.Their clumsy end was perilously nearThe lizards would be saved, he said, if they could be enlightenedBy the writings of the helping friendly bookIn all of prussia only one existedAnd wilson had declared that any person who possessed it was a crook[chorus]The helping friendly book, it seemed, possessed the ancient secretsOf eternal joy and never-ending splendorThe trick was to surrender to the flowWe walked along beneath the moonHe lead us through the bush 'till soonWe saw before our eyes a raging riverHe said that we could swim it if we triedAnd saying this the knight dove in forgetting that his suit of armsWould surely weigh him down and so he sunkAnd as his body disappeared before meI bowed my head in silence and remembered all thoughts that he had thunk[chorus]But rutherford and forbin weren't alone. and suddenly an unexpected movement caught his eye. on the far side of the river he saw a shaggy creature standing in the weeds who stared across at forbin with an unrelenting gaze. a gigantic mass of muscles and claws. the hideous beast reared back and hurled himself in the water and swam toward the region where rutherford lay. and in a flash, the beast was gone, underneath the surface to the frosty depths below while forbin, bewildered, waited alone. the seconds dragged by in what seemed like hours till finally the colonel felt it all had been a dream. defeated, he bowed his head then turned to go. suddenly with a roar, the creature emerged before him and held the brave knight's body to the sky. and the creature laid the knight upon the shore. and the colonel fell beside his friend in prayer that he'd survive. and rutherford, brave rutherford was alive.Forbin and the unit monster were crouched over the soggy knight carefully removing his bulky helmet when the colonel heard a sound behind him. he turned around and came face to face with an enormous shaggy horse-like creature covered from head to tail with alternating blotches of brown and white. it was a two-toned multi-beast, and atop the multi-beast sat the most beautiful woman the colonel had ever seen. after fifty-two years of undaunted bachelorhood, the colonel felt a feeling rush over him as he had never felt before.