Phish - The Lizards lyrics

Passing through the corridor I came
Upon an aging knight
Who leaned against the wall in gnarly armor
He was on his way to see the king
Wilson Wilson Wilson he led me through the
Streets of PRussia talking
As he tried to crush a bug
That scurried underneath his boot heel
He said there was a place where we should go
So he lead me through the forest to
The edge of a lagoon by which
We wandered 'til we reached a bubbly spring
The knight grew very quiet as we stood there
Then he lifted up his visor and he turned
To me and he began to sing

He said I come from the land of darkness
He said I come from the land of doom
He said I come from the land of Gamehendge
From the land of the big baboon
But, I'm never never going back there
And I couldn't if I tried
Cause, I come from the land of Lizards
And the Lizards they have died
And the Lizards they have died
And the Lizards they have died
And the Lizards they have died

He told me that the Lizards were
A race of people practically extinct
From doing things smart people don't do
He said that he was once a Lizard too
His name was Rutherford the Brave and he
Was on a quest to save
His people from the fate that lay before them
Their clumsy end was perilously near
The Lizards would be saved, he said
If they could be enlightened
By the writings of the Helping Friendly Book
In all of PRussia only one existed
And Wilson had declared that any person
Who possessed it was a crook

He said I come from the land of darkness
He said I come from the land of doom
He said I come from the land of Gamehendge
From the land of the big baboon
But, I'm never never going back there
And I couldn't if I tried
Cause, I come from the land of Lizards
And the Lizards they have died
And the Lizards they have died
And the Lizards they have died
And the Lizards they have died

The Helping Friendly Book, it seemed
Possessed the ancient secrets
Of eternal joy and never-ending splendor
The trick was to surrender to the flow
We walked along beneath the moon
He lead us through the bush 'till soon
We saw before our eyes a raging river
He said that we could swim it if we tried
And saying this the knight dove in
Forgetting that his suit of arms
Would surely weigh him down and so he sunk
And as his body disappeared before me
I bowed my head in silence and remembered
All thoughts that he had thunk

He said I come from the land of darkness
He said I come from the land of doom
He said I come from the land of Gamehendge
From the land of the big baboon
But, I'm never never going back there
And I couldn't if I tried
Cause, I come from the land of Lizards
And the Lizards they have died
And the Lizards they have died
And the Lizards they have died
And the Lizards they have died

But Rutherford and Forbin
Weren't alone 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 dragging
By him seemed
Like hours till finally the colonel felt
It all had been a dream defeated
He bowed his
Head and 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