Ms. Prism

[appleofmyeye]

(this is the best i can do)

Baby you’re a free American child
Candy wrapper clean a touch of curve wow
If you want I’ll sing to you, that’s not really your style

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No one’s ever loved me so slow
I was brave for loving you
I’m braver for letting you go

You’re a soul priestess
Discredited witness
You’re pure sci-fi
Raining for the garden when the garden is dry

Come on…freeze
You’re so erratic, such a tease
I want to get down on my knees
Hear you call and I freeze

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
?Something? and I know it hurts
well if you can’t get no blood stay away from the stone
well if you can’t get no blood get away from the stone
it’s like a knife in my shoulder when you’re with him alone

what child in chains, isn’t beautiful to hold?
Deep thunder rose
Cry it out to everyone, that you see

What child in chains isn’t beautiful to hold, deep thunder rose

[harrymcq]

Thanks!!!! I like this tune and I think it fits nicely with their rock-and-roll sound. I hope I see it on a setlist or in person sometime soon!

[Phrazz]

Thanks, Robyn! This is good enough for the lyrics repository and as we get other versions and hear more we can fill in the ???'s.

I remember hearing this at one of the Mercury gigs, maybe Southpaw, too.

Harry, here ya go:

20050506: O'Dwyer's - Saratoga Springs NY :
Set II: Life in Disguise*, Even Rats, Miss Prism@, Lonely Boy > Children of December, Suffocation Keep, Poor Boy, Sometimes True to Nothing

20051008: Southpaw: Brooklyn, NY
E: Life In Disguise, Miss Prism^, If One of Us Should Fall

20051019: Mercury Lounge: New York, NY
Set I: Soft Machine, Even Rats, I Hate Love, Miss Prism, New Song*, Paper Birds, Moderate Threat > Cowboy Up, Children of December, Suffocation Keep, Sometimes True To Nothing, Poor Boy

20051102: Mercury Lounge: New York, NY
Set I: Children of December, Even Rats, If One of Us Should Fall, Miss Prism, Wine and White Soda, Suffocation Keep, I Hate Love, Paper Birds > Sunday Bloody Sunday, Lonely Boy > freakout jam, Cut from the Cloth, Life In Disguise, Soft Machine

20051104: Mezzanotte Lounge: Syracuse, NY
Set I: Soft Machine, Even Rats, I Hate Love, Driving Backwards with You, Wine and White Soda, Miss Prism, Get Me With Fuji, Life in Disguise

20051111: Somerville Theatre: Somerville, MA
Set I: All I Saw Was You, Paper Birds, I Hate Love, Wine and White Soda, Reddish Moon, Even Rats, From the Gecko, Suffocation Keep, Miss Prism, Intro> Cumulus, "Man On Fire" (new acoustic song), Moderate Threat> Cowboy Up> Soft Machine
prism was found at 6 shows.

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Impressive how much the setlists have changed in a couple of years.

[harrymcq]

I heard it at High Sierra that year and have a few of those tapes. Also known as "Thunder Rose" Is Miss Prism the official title?

[appleofmyeye]

Wouldn't it be SO COOL if SMMD would bust out with this one on this west coast run?!

I remember reading somewhere that Nathan in particular loves this song *hint, hint*

[Colin]

I'm really bad at figuring out lyrics but here's my shot from a recording i have:

Baby you’re a free American child,
Candy wrapper clean a touch of curve, wow.
If you want I’ll sing to you,
that’s not really your style.

Come on pack it up, I want you to know
I've never had a woman love me so slow.
I was brave for loving you,
And I'm braver letting you go.

You’re a soul priestess,
Discredited witness.
You’re pure sci-fi,
Raining for the garden when the garden is dry.

Come on (Freeze).
You’re so erratic, such a tease.
Don't make me get down on my knees.
If you were any colder I'd freeze.

Everybody's son is crying and singing how
They believe in the real verse.
But if you can’t get no blood get away from the stone.
You have to burn something and it must be your own.

Sometimes it's taken like the desperation
Of a seagull twenty miles to sea,
Who doesn't know if it's further to turn
Back or fly unknowingly.

My hope depends on my family and friends
And good people who I haven't yet met.
But as a woman breaths a woman is a song.
Once right is right it can never be wrong, babe.

Come on (Freeze).
Every time you're such a tease.
My (arms)?? are like a swarm of bees.
She hikes her skirt above her knees, makes me laugh.

Everybody's son is crying and singing how
They believe in the real verse.
But if you can’t get no blood get away from the stone.
No if you can’t get no blood get away from the stone.

It’s like a knife in my shoulder when you’re with him alone.

What child in chains, is beautiful to hold?
Deep thunder rose quiets everyone who can hear.
[repeats]

[harrymcq]

I totally dig this tune and would just love to see it resurface. I could see it work with Davis though it does seem more like a Slip tune. I think it totally could have been on Eisenhower and I kept wondering why they weren't playing it 2006-7. Sometimes they seem to throw the best ones away?

Thanks for the transcription, I've been trying to figure out parts of it for a while and this is the best I've seen yet.

(Fingers crossed that we will hear it this summer!!!)