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Ever wonder how many obscure terms for body parts made it into Phish songs? Chalk Dust Torture has a slew, and Heavy Things has a few, but Axilla and its successor, Axilla (Part II), are the only songs named for one (with apologies, of course, to My Left Toe, which is not at all obscure). The axilla is the armpit, or, more specifically, the cavity between the forelimb and the body. Given the warrior-esque mythology of the lyrics, some speculated that the song was a piece of the Gamehendge saga. Page made reference to the connection in The Phish Book, noting that Axilla was the last Gamehendge song written. Theres a definite but obscure lyrical connection axiluh is the ancient Aztec word for the lizard. But now were digging really deep, arent we?
So, what does the song have to do with the armpit? No one is quite sure. The lyrics tell the story of a battle with a witch; one singular line refers to a particularly stinky axilla that makes the narrator lose his/her appetite. The word is cool enough that it gets shouted over and over at the end of the song. Musically, it and its brother were the hardest, heaviest originals to see the light of day in the ten years between Big Black Furry Creature from Mars in 1987 and Saw It Again in 1997.
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