Cuckoo Cocoon Lyrics

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" Cuckoo Cocoon "
by Genesis
From ' The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway '
ARRANGEMENT: Taken off studio version. The guitars are mellow and
effects laden. The intro and regular verse seem to have
been recorded using a 'Travis' style of finger picking,
where the thumb is alternating. This version is a little
more syncopated and more to my liking.
I will also include an 'optional' more aggressive
style of picking for comparison.
Time signature : 4/4
INTRO:
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OPTIONAL:
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1st verse:
Wrapped up in some powdered wool I guess I'm losing touch.
2nd verse:
There's nothing I can recognize, this is nowhere that I've known
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1st verse:
Don't tell me this is dying, 'cause I ain't changed that much.
2nd verse:
With no sign of life at all, I guess that I'm alone.
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1st verse:
The only sound is waterdrops, I wonder where the hell I
2nd verse:
And I feel so secure, that I know this can't be
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1st verse:
am? Some kind of jam? Cuckoo cocoon, have I come to,
2nd verse: too soon for
real. But I feel good.
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1st verse:
you?
STRUM / HOLD CHORD
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2nd verse:
you?
STRUM / HOLD CHORD
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MIDDLE: ( FLUTE SOLO )
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3rd verse:
I wonder if I'm a prisoner locked in some Brooklyn jail, or
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3rd verse:
some kind of Jonah, shut up inside the whale.
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3rd verse:
No, I'm still Rael, and I'm stuck in some kind of
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3rd verse:
cave, what could've saved me? Cuckoo cocoon, have I come to
too soon for
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3rd verse:
you?
STRUM / HOLD CHORD
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END: ( FLUTE SOLO )
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STRUM
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