Lyrics to
Cuckoo Cocoon

This version of Cuckoo Cocoon was released by Genesis in 1974.

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Wrapped up in some powdered wool-I guess I’m losing touch.
Don’t tell me I’m dying, ‘cos I ain’t changed that much.
The only sound is water drops, I wonder where the hell I am,
Some kind of jam?
Cuckoo Cocoon have I come to, too soon for you?

There’s nothing I can recognise; this is nowhere that I’ve known.
With no sign of life at all, I guess that I’m alone,
And I feel so secure that I know this can’t be real but I feel good.
Cuckoo cocoon have I come to, too soon for you?

I wonder if I’m a prisoner locked up in some Brooklyn jail
-or some sort of Jonah shut up inside the whale.
No-I’m still Rael and I’m stuck in some kind of cave,
what could’ve saved me?
Cuckoo cocoon have I come to, too soon for you?

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About Lyrics and Cuckoo Cocoon by Genesis

The lyrics for Cuckoo Cocoon are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1974 song by Genesis. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Cuckoo Cocoon have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Cuckoo Cocoon - Genesis and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Cuckoo Cocoon by Genesis in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Cuckoo Cocoon" means the words set to the music of Cuckoo Cocoon, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Genesis. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Cuckoo Cocoon and the lyrics to Cuckoo Cocoon are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Genesis who came here looking just for the lyrics to Cuckoo Cocoon, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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