Three Sheets to Kishkiyya · Track 13 · middle

Nimptopsical

VOLUME I — being gloriously, world-tilting DRUNK (the night at full tilt). The idiom and the song's title hook: "Nimptopsical". Its true history: American colonies, 1737 — one of Franklin's invented tavern words; pure playful nonsense for a drunken state. Render this beat of the night as the band's affectionate, funny, celebratory tribute — the idiom itself is the chorus hook.

Lyrics

[Intro]
[Verse 1]
In 1737, Ben Franklin was setting the plate
Down at the Pennsylvania Gazette, working a little bit late
He needed a term for the tavern, to capture the wobble and tilt
When the floorboards are suddenly velvet, and all of your worries are spilled

[Chorus]
Oh, she’s feeling nimptopsical, high on the gallery floor
Walking a crooked diagonal right out the heavy oak door
It’s a beautiful, joyful condition
A runaway carriage ignoring the engine
We’re delightfully, wonderfully, truly nimptopsical tonight

[Verse 2]
I’ve seen a man wrestle a cyclone, I’ve seen a trout in a vest
But I ain't seen a glorious stumble put to this kind of a test
She's grabbing the oak of the table like a captain who's losing the chart
With a head full of beautiful nonsense, walking around in the dark

[Chorus]
Oh, she’s feeling nimptopsical, high on the gallery floor
Walking a crooked diagonal right out the heavy oak door
It’s a beautiful, joyful condition
A runaway carriage ignoring the engine
We’re delightfully, wonderfully, truly nimptopsical tonight

[Bridge]
Two hundred phrases in the Drinker's Dictionary
To say that a person is ruined and merry
From "fuzzled" to "staggerish," stacked on the page
But this is the word for the foolish and brave

[Guitar Solo]

[Outro]
So pour out a glass for the printer
And spin the whole room like a top
We're entirely, beautifully, slightly nimptopsical...
And I don't think we're going to stop
Just let the pendulum swing till it catches the edge of the—