You Enjoy Myself
Phish and Santana Lyrics

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Boy
Man
God
Shit
Boy man
Boy man
Wash uffitze drive me to firenze

The beauty of Phish and Santana's song "You Enjoy Myself" lies in the fact that it weaves together cryptic lyrics with complex musical arrangements. The opening lyrics "Boy, man, god, shit" are repeated throughout the song and provide a basis for reflection on the complexities and contradictions of human existence. Each word represents a different aspect of the human experience, with "boy" representing youth and innocence, "man" representing maturity and responsibility, "god" representing spirituality or higher ideals, and "shit" representing the mundane, base aspects of existence. Through these words, the song suggests that life is a mixture of all these things, and that the contradictions and paradoxes inherent in being human are what make life interesting.

The final lines of the song "Wash uffitze drive me to firenze" are equally mysterious. These lyrics are nonsensical and speak to the idea that sometimes words can be used for their sound and rhythm rather than their meaning. It's possible that the words represent a specific place or experience that the songwriter had, but for the listener, the words become a sort of mantra that symbolizes the ineffable nature of existence.

Line by Line Meaning

Boy
The beginning of life, innocence and youthfulness.

Man
The transition to adulthood, responsibility, and independence.

God
The belief in a higher power or spirituality beyond ourselves.

Shit
The unpleasant, messy, and sometimes unexpected aspects of life.

Boy man
The combination of youthfulness and adulthood, navigating through early stages of life.

Boy man
The intersection of both childhood and manhood perspectives.

Wash uffitze drive me to firenze
Nonsensical phrase meant to showcase the playfulness and improvisation in the lyrics and music.

Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
Written by: TREY ANASTASIO

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Comments from YouTube:

@denniscampbell6185

11y↑27

I saw Phish open for Santana at Great Woods in Massachusetts. It was Carlos' 43rd birthday. Phish played an unbelievable set, I remember sitting there between sets thinking, "How is Carlos gonna top that?" Seriously, Carlos put on one of the best shows In History that day. If nothing else, Phish seriously motivated him.

@sydbarrett5975

Dennis Campbell yeah it's called the hose. Phish blew his mind. Trey earned a legend's respect in '92!

@brunoblivious

Just in case you're still telling this story, it was the day after his 45th birthday. Haha

@johnstanley2056

InstaBlaster

@TheHSIHP

10y↑28

One of my first Phish tapes I had back in 93. I wore that Maxell out!!

@merlinrothfeld1412

9y↑3

Ahhh... the trusty XLII 90's!!!

@gazicj

word me too

@rhino805999

12y↑13

I went to see Santana, and discovered Phish, this was a great run for both artists. I saw them in Nashua NH during this same Summer, Had some crazy shrooms........................the rest is history.

@jesusheals2

2y↑1

I was at this one!! Got to meet Raul and Chester as they enjoyed Phish. Then Trey jammed with Carlos for at least half an hout. Great night! We brought my female friends mom to this and she loved it!!

@rwreckage

11y↑7

i could sit here and listen to carlos and trey trade licks all day. fantastic.

@gazicj

meee too!

@acc198

11y↑7

Man, still one of the most superior technical live moments in music. Just perfection.

@hopeisunlimited

Agreed

@ianedery1576

10y↑17

Best i ever heard Page... Trey and Tito fought it out... Was at Stowe mountain. Lucky to have been there

@cliffordball4263

10y↑2

yes y0u are my phrend

@gazicj

nice! dats some og shit right there. my first show was summer 95

@sydbarrett5975

7y↑11

How the phuck does this only have 61 comments!?!? One of the greatest jams ever🤘

@ThomasBMawn

4y↑1

Sad you made this comment 2 years ago and there is only 90 now! Our society does not know what true music is my friend!

@highcountrymaintenance3266

3y↑1

It’s a tribe/jazz thing...don’t sweat it bro

@stevelangner3483

I was there, but you didn't have to be there to realize that this was one of the best jams ever. Just,,,listen.😊

@stevelangner3483

3y↑1

Carlos said that when he saw trey drool on his guitar he knew this guy was feeling it.

@gazicj

@@highcountrymaintenance3266 good point

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@cshubs

13y↑7

I remember getting this tape soon after the show. Mind-bendingly good. It was in the car forever.

@danconnorsnew8766

3y↑1

Listening on Father’s Day love the picture especially Trey and child

@peoplemusic7862

4y↑2

Major part of my life. Remember like it was tomorrow.

@chegarcia420

42w

I came across a bootleg of this show around ‘95. In Durango, CO…Animas Trading would make copies of bootlegs if you brought in blank cassettes. You pick the bootlegs, that you wanted copies of, from their collection. Come back in a couple days and your cassettes were ready! Super dope!!

@jamesfalconi8533

5y↑3

After seeing a fire Oye Como Va tease during DWD N3 of Vegas this year, I think my life goal is to see Carlos & Big Red share a stage again.... I would explode with joy

@gazicj

right?!!

@swoe420

10y↑3

1st Phish show. Week of my 10 yr reunion, Newark HS.

@energyschool108

4y↑1

This was my very first phish bootleg CD ! I had no idea what I was getting into. 20+ years later and I’m still upside down !!!

@mt.shasta9127

Great tour! When it stopped at Big Birch ski slope in Patterson, NY; I was so stoked Santana was playing 5 min from my house. We lined up at box office and got 5th row tickets. There I discovered Phish the opener, I was blown away, my first Phish show. I was sitting there amongst empty seats 5th row. During Santana Phish came out and jammed.

@pricecampbell

I was at this, was amazing, the guitar battle between Trey and Carlos was legendary.

@Astralwurksdk

11y↑2

This is such a classic. Used to have it on the old Maxell cassettes. One of my all time fave YEM's along with 93 YEM>Owner of a Lonely Heart>Spooky>Time from Gunnison Co. God I love this band even still. So many memories

@Phillyfast

12y

Two years ago buddy and I caught Phish in Asheville on their summer 2009 tour. Bought three brownies off a guy on the sidewalk near the Beer Garden restaurant for $10 and TRIPPED BALLS the rest of the night. Never forget that show!

@peoplemusic7862

4y↑1

Such a good show.

@mcformica

11y

5th row center. one of the top 3 Phish shows I saw.

@bcp5296d

12y↑3

wow. The lack of quality comments on this video suprises me. What a fantastic jam.

@justinrainey4242

Awesome and it shall rock forever

@cliffordball4263

10y↑5

Santana w/ Phish. Check Mate. Nuff Said. :)

@ILMofCEFistillLOVEU

12y

wow! what an awesome picture! Thanks for sharing

@xxyyzzz1000

12y

phish opened for santana,,,he and some band joined phish, then later, they joined santana...good times for sure!!

@jeffmitchell3057

My 3rd show and prelude to my future in VT

@mcformica

11y

no. I don't recall. Though Trey and Mike were on them when Santana came out. After he waved them on a bunch of times beyond the end of the usual 35 minute sets they were doing that tour. If I remember correctly (that's a big if) their opening set went on well over an hour. It was fantastic.

@GratefulYemster

12y

been looking for this ty poster!!!!!!!!

@jacksondiner

15:08 Awesome "Put it where you Want it" tease by Carlos

@wizzlemane7308

2y↑3

Don’t skip the hot fire Llama that came after this!

@pickituup34

37w

if I had to say there was one song of their catalog that is #1 for me: llama, and prob pic of nectar, are it…that’s the list

@FunkHitsTheFan

Now I feel like Carlos showed Trey how to find the spot on stage where you get that infinite sustain

@Gumbo72203

12y

wow Trey is really getting out there during the compositional parts; thats really cool. I've never really heard him improvise on the written parts before. Unless those were all Carlos?

@97Tubert

10y↑3

It's a You Don't Love Me by Willie Cobbs tease, not Allman Brothers.

@mfb5642

6y↑4

You really can't beat early 90's Phish.

@midlwestern3237

5y↑1

Indeed

@midlwestern3237

1992 Santa Barbara CA is my fav show, check it out Bonita ;)

@incidentalist

4y↑1

Yea, Trey was in a world of his own!!

@jordanlacombe4318

I was at this one!

@Astralwurksdk

11y

Hilarious people talking about Umphreys. One band that I heard that could even close to take me to the same places as Phish was Lachoza. Probably one of the best bands that never was as they broke up after only a couple of years but they didn't sound like other jam bands. Very genuine like Phish

@flashback3747

10y↑2

This particular show and song was my first introduction to Phish. Still one of the best. (But New Orleans '96 was fucking unbelievable)

@cliffordball4263

10y

n0 d0ubt. S0 was the Cl1ff0rd Ball same year

@cliffordball4263

try making sense..... movie hackers? too many 420 kush bowls 4 u bud

@cliffordball4263

it was 96 anyway big guy

@matthewstundtner5224

indeed, Love it

@alexn159

12y

a must hear for any phish phan, carlos picks his spots beautifully

@seankennedy9092

11y↑17

was there a trampoline for carlos?

@jordanlacombe4318

Nope.

@midlwestern3237

5y↑3

Great Jam - Trey had to come in and slay Santana though...

@incidentalist

4y↑4

Happens when the other guitar player only knows one mode and has played it ONLY for 50 years :D

@stevelangner3483

Love ,love santana.but trey can play santana, santana can't play trey, sorry carlos. Trey is just multi- faceted. Pretty sure trey can play def leppard, vice- versa😂no

@gazicj

@@incidentalist sorry for maybe too basic question, but which mode is it that cs is so relying on?
i’m still learning to distinguish the characteristic sound of each of the different modes/scales/interval patterns…

@AJ-vw7nn

2y↑2

@@gazicj 7 months later, but: it’s dorian.

@andrewdyke5561

2y↑1

is it me.or is page killing the fuck out of this jam

@blackandblueeagle

He’s just randomly on fire. Reminds me of a tube jam

@burnsgowen6201

I was there small venue ( like a fucking bar ) and insane show one of my top ten favorite first 100

@BrettMorin

51w↑3

Phish in the 90's was amazing. Phish in the 2000's was okay. Phish now is a lot of 'Weee oooh, wee ohhhh, weeee ohhhhh" for four minutes then a little bit of playing a melody, then a lot of a jam. I like how in the 90's it was peaks and valleys. Highs and lows, and melody changes, and songs that were trying new things. I was at Hampton 97 while they played there two sets and nothing after that ever beat that to me. I just feel like they still get along, still play great, but are not on the level of exploration they were on in 1990's. They were like what the Grateful Dead was to the 1970's to 90's.

@dabble855

47w↑1

been saying this for years now just not the same band i fell in love with

@captainsteamer7320

37w

@@dabble855 yeah they have turned into major dad rockers. The newer material at least lends itself to some really good jamming. I was pleasantly surprised the last time I saw them, they still get me there.

but the question is, who will replace Phish in the scene? I hope it's not goose, i just can't get into them.

@m0t0rcycleman

5y↑11

Anybody know the source of this tape? I recorded this show from the 12th-row dead center. It might be from my original but I'm not sure. There wasn't a tapers section at that show, I think they weren't allowed but I was a stagehand :) I had a sony d6 with a sony ecm mic. This sounds like my recording :) I still have the master

@strat57wg

Is your tape on etree?

@gazicj

3y↑1

dats super dope—ty! ty to generally all “the tapers”

@m0t0rcycleman

@@strat57wg I don't know

@dyermaker4731

Would you be willing to have that tape transferred professionally?

@m0t0rcycleman

2y↑1

@@dyermaker4731 I'm hoping to

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@EastEggEntertainment

11y↑2

Carlos played with the Dead in 1987 Calvaras and Las Vegas just the year before

@blackandblueeagle

2y↑1

Page going hard

@phunkyterrapin

10y↑1

Fish and his glasses. LOL

@nukegunrack

12y↑1

There actually is a You Don't Love Me tease in this song. Even .net says so

@jakemguitarist

50w

13:40

@mah38900

13y↑3

So it's Santana and of one/some of the percussion players from his band? It can't just be Fishman making all that sound.

@mixo970

11y↑1

homage to Allman Brothers Band

@kyleveenema1428

Never mind......its "one way out" ABB

@joemurphy1038

12y↑1

Page KILLS it at 2:00

@BURRiah

10y

Mmmmmmmmmmgasm

@chaddanner123

12y↑1

Who is the kid in the pic?

@ianedery1576

11y↑1

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree

@Blissjunkie42029

11y↑2

MORE COWBELL!

@gazicj

3y↑1

facts

@notmefuckingname

13y

@MrFeppas oviously not an umphreys tease. haha but it sounds like something i would hear umphreys mcgee playing. u can't deny it

@The93ssfd

52w

who is the young boy on trey's shoulder?

@marcusgambrell1228

Who is the kid on Treys Shoulder?

@sderek

13y

@mah38900 That would be pretty amazing but no Karl Perazzo and Raul Rekow are playing with them.

@harry61991

13y

who's the kid ?

@treysvids

12y

the LUCKIEST MAN ALIVE

@Metromaniac01

12y

@soulpower121 Totally agree man. The kid had a great day, that's what life is all about. Why is that one dude harshing his mellow?

@solidgroundmusic

whose the little kid in the pic?

@chrissmart4421

8y↑11

that's trey

@jacksonchance1354

8y↑1

Haahahahha

@andrewdyke5561

Dusty Rhodes he has three daughter though

@Phishcactus

Trey wasn't married / didn't have kids till the late 90 s so I'm wondering the same thing

@jester070993

6y↑1

Dusty Rhodes Trey has 2 kids. not 3. and they are both daughters. he doesn't have a son

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@soulpower121

12y↑6

dude chill out i think thats sick that was his first show and trip. how sick would that be. doing L isnt some gay competition. neither is how many shows youve seen.

@m0sesdewitt

love this and you!

@kyleveenema1428

What are they teasing like 14-in.......can't put finger on it

@Obiwannabe

12y

Wow thats a lot for a 2 year old to do.

@MrBonesbucket

11y↑2

This was in 92...the guys in umphreys would of still been in high school stupid...umphreys is a talented band but they will never come close to the magic of phish.

@incidentalist

7y↑5

poor Santana, sounds like an amateur

@mfb5642

6y↑4

It's not really his style of music, he's just winging it. It's hard to keep up with the Phish weirdness. They basically invented their own style of insanity.