Cuckoo Cocoon


Written by Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford
From Genesis album: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, 1974

Key: D major, Time: 4/4, Tempo: 82

Intro:
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|:Dmaj7   |Cmaj7   :| (X 2)


Verse 1: (0:12-)
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|Dmaj7                               |Cmaj7 
 Wrapped up in some powdered wool - I guess I'm losing touch.
     |Dmaj7                      |Cmaj7 
Don't tell me this is dying, 'cos I ain't changed that much.
   |F/G                         |G/F                     A
The only sound is water drops, I wonder where the hell I am,
            ||2/4 A/G  ||4/4
Some kind of      jam?

|F#m    E/G#          F#m          E/G#    |F#/B  ||
 Cuckoo cocoon have I come to, too soon for you?


[Verse 2] (0:36-)

 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?


Interlude: (1:01-) <Flute solo>
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|G/A     |Dm7/G   ||2/4    ||4/4 D7/C   |
|Bb6     |Dm  Bb  ||2/4 C  ||4/4 D/F#   ||

|Cmaj7   |<Enters piano>

[Verse 3] (1:25-) 

 I wonder if I'm a prisoner locked 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?


(Interlude) (1:50-) 

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