You Enjoy Myself

The song was featured on Phish's third album '' Junta '' (although a shorter, A Capella version appeared on their 1986 self-titled debut known as '' The White Tape ''), and was a staple of the group's many live performances. The piece is classically structured (like '' The Divided Sky '', composed around the same time) and fans have dubbed each section of the song with names like "Pre-Nirvana", "Nirvana", "The Note", "The Second Note", and "The Charge."

It is reported that the title came from something an Italian said to Trey Anastasio and Jon Fishman when they toured Europe in 1985 , playing in the streets. When leaving, he said "You enjoy myself, yes?" Supposedly, this was a too-literal translation from Italian into English for something along the lines of "best wishes." After falling down laughing, Anastasio wrote the song.

Halfway through the song are the only clearly comprehensible lyrics in the song:

Boy!
Man!
God!
Shit!

followed by a line whose meaning has perpetually been subject to discussion. One popular interpretation is "Wash uffitzi, drive me to Firenze ," referring to the trip that Trey Anastasio and Jon Fishman took to Italy in the summer of 1985 , where they lived out of their Car . The lyrics have also been interpreted as "Wash your feet they drive me into a frenzy" in reference to the lack of Fishman's hygiene on that same trip.

The most probably correct explanation for this line is that "Uffizi" ('you-FEET-tzee') is a pun on an Italian -accented pronunciation of the words "your feet." Uffizi is a museum in Firenze , or Florence , in Italy , that Fishman and Anastasio visited. At a spring near Uffizi , it is reported that they washed their feet. One theory is that the quoted Italian hailed from this area - in which case the meaning of the song as a whole becomes clearer.

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