Thread by @robertllevy

An AI Art Program Interprets the Lyics of the Song Esther by Phish, a thread.

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It was late one fall night at a fairground near town
When Esther first saw the Armenian man 2/

Who groveled toward her and stood by her side
With a bucket that swung in his hand 3/

His grin stretched the folds of his pasty white cheeks
And his lips hurled a dollop of murk on the curb 4/

And the lights from the rides showed a mischievous sparkle
That flashed in his hollow eyed stare 5/

He said "Little girl, you can chop off my legs
And then peel off my socks if you want to. 6/

But I'd rather you took this old puppet from me
That I hold in my pail as we speak." 7/

And he stood looking down at the innocent girl
And she stared at the bucket bewildered 8/

Til he lifted the doll for the young girl to see
And a giant smile grew on her face 9/

She saw the doll's eyes and she couldn't resist
And she thanked the man quickly and ran to the church 10/

And she burst through the door with puppet held high
And a hush filled the chapel, and the people looked mean 11/

Esther tried in vain to pacify the mob
Quibble grew to spat, to wrangle, then to brawl 12/

The frenzied congregation struggled desperately to fetch
The pretty puppet snugly nestled deep in Esther's leather sack 13/

Through the window of the church a storm began to rage
And Esther knew the time had come to flee
She scurried down the aisle toward the doorway in the distance
And out into the rainstorm where she felt she would be free 14/

But the wind was blowing harder
And her skirt began to billow
Until finally her feet began to lift 15/

And she rose above the houses and the people
And the chimneys
And Esther and the doll were set adrift 16/

Floating higher over the hills, and the valleys and treetops
They'd flutter and glide
Soaring and turning suspended on air
With the earth far below them they'd tumble
And dive through the clouds 17/

And she began to plummet earthward till she
Landed in the nasty part of town 18/

She glanced about the village sure to find the evil men
Who rob and pillage in the darkest hour of night 19/

Nervously she fumbled for the pouch that held the
Puppet on her rump /20

Feeling quite outnumbered Esther hid behind
A nearby pile of lumber, where she waited
Till the dawn 21/

Cause it would have been a blunder to
Succumb to a hoodlum on the prowl 22/

When the morning came, she wandered through the streets
Along the chilly lake that lay beside the town
At last a peaceful moment, but she thought she heard a sound 23/

It was an angry mob of joggers coming up to knock her down 24/

As Esther stood and shook her head
The joggers were approaching
And she knew she had no choice left but to swim 25/

As the frosty water sank its bitter teeth into her hide
She tried to slide the heavy clothing from her skin 26/

Naked now she made her way toward the shore
When suddenly she felt a tiny tugging at her toe.
And the puppet she'd forgotten wrapped its tiny
Little arms around her ankle and wouldn't let her go. 27/

The waves seemed to open and swallow her whole
As the doll pulled her down through the eerie green deep /28

And the sound of the laughing old man filled her ears 29/

As she drifted away to a tranquil
And motionless sleep. 30/30 the end.