Mound

By Phish

On Rift

Released on February 2, 1993

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[Instrumental Intro]


[Verse 1]

The old man knows very well

Goin' down 'round the snowbank, there's a mound

A mound that an old man knows good

Look who raises his shoe all over this mound

Right over the world in another rewind


[Chorus]

And it's time, time, time for the last rewind

For a broken old man and a world unkind

He buried all his memories of home

In an icy clump that lies beneath the ground


[Verse 2]

No one knows how far he traveled

Oh, I heard he walked miles from the little mound

Can he find some shelter?

He doesn't know to behold what the cold frost can do

At the last hill he realized he'd circled back around

Round-a-back circle, round-a-back realized


[Chorus]

And it's time, time, time for the last rewind

For a broken old man and a world unkind

He buried all his memories of home

In an icy clump that lies beneath the ground


[Instrumental Break]


[Bridge]

Ice is all he was made of

The bitter blue, and swollen through

He went over to the mound

Reclining down his final thoughts

Were drifting to the time his life had shined


[Chorus]

And it's time, time, time for the last rewind

For a broken old man and a world unkind

He buried all his memories of home

In an icy clump that lies beneath the ground

It's time, time, time for the last rewind

For a broken old man and a world unkind

He buried all his memories of home

In an icy clump that lies beneath the ground