Forum MVP New York Steve Posted February 16, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 One of the best things about Hunter and GD in general is after 20 years, most of the lyrics have special meaning to me. "broken heart don't feel so bad, you ain't got half of what you thought you had..." "full of the blues and trying to lose, you ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know>" "loose with the truth, baby, it's your fire, but baby don't get burned" "if i had a shotgun..." what are your favorites??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Tea Posted February 16, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 "Inspiration......move me brightly" "I have spent my life, seeking all that's still unsung" "Recall the days, that still are to come" "Flight of the seabird, scattered like lost words" "Don't cry now......don't you cry.....dry your eyes on the wind" "I've stayed in every blue-light cheap hotel, can't win for trying. Dust of those rusty strings just one more time, gonna make them shine, shine" I could keep this up all day.................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sister Bluebird Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair. Now is the time past believing. The child has relinquished the reign. Gone are the days we stopped to decide / Where we should go, we just ride. Gone are the broken eyes we saw through in dreams / Gone - both dream and lie. Strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hand Everybody's playing in the Heart of Gold Band, Heart of Gold Band. Without love in the dream it will never come true. All I wanna do, fly up, fly home. / Fly on those wings of love, fly up, fly home. If you get confused just listen to the music play. Cat on a tin roof / Dogs in a pile / Nothing left to do but :) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP chuckvegas Posted February 16, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Wings a mile long Just carry the bird...away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advisory Board Herdygerdy Posted February 17, 2010 Advisory Board Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 "I say what I mean, and I don't give a damn... I do believe, that I am who I am..." "Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair" "But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues, You can tell by the way she smiles" .....and....."The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain, And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain" "I know I'm no angel, my prospects are high As the flood line in summer when the river's gone dry But I'll roll up my shirt-sleeves and make my best shot To show how I love you, believe it or not" "River gonna take me, sing me sweet and sleepy Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home It's a far gone lullaby sung many years ago Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home" I'd say, that for me, there are atleast one or two lines in almost every Dead song that I love... which is probably why I love the music so much... Not only is the instrumental portion of the tune just delicious, the lyrics are just as tasty!!! So there are just a few of mine that came off the top of my head... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP VincentPuleo Posted February 17, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 Robert Hunter was a great member of the Grateful Dead... "When Reuben played on his painted mandolin.. the breeze would pause to listen in before going on its way again..." "Let my inspiration flow in token rhyme, suggesting rhythm, That will not forsake you, till my tale is told and done. While the firelight's aglow, strange shadows from the flames will grow, Till things we've never seen will seem familiar" "Look for a while at the China Cat sunflower, Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun. Copperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono, Like a crazy quilt stargown through a dream night wind" "Going to plant a weeping willow, On the bank's green edge it will grow, grow, grow. Sing a lullaby beside the water, Lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJJohn Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 The bus came by and I got on That's when it all began There was cowboy Neal At the wheel Of a bus to never-ever land Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the World but the heart has its beaches its homeland and thoughts of its own Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings but the heart has its seasons its evenings and songs of its own Red and white/blue suede shoes I'm Uncle Sam /how do you do? Gimme five/I'm still alive Ain't no luck/I learned to duck It's just a box of rain I don't know who put it there Believe it if you need it or leave it if you dare But it's just a box of rain or a ribbon for your hair Such a long long time to be gone and a short time to be there In another time's forgotten space your eyes looked through your mother's face Wildflower seed on the sand and stone may the four winds blow you safely home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP chuckvegas Posted February 17, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 There's this: Underfoot the ground is patched With climbing arms of ivy wrapped around the manzanita, Stark and shiny in the breeze and this: Fire Fire on the mountain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DJones Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 Delilah Jones went to meet her god and the old man never was the same again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP VincentPuleo Posted February 17, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 chuck, where is that first one from?.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP found Posted February 17, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 william tell bridge after st. stephen i love that part. it makes any st. stephen 42X better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP VincentPuleo Posted February 17, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 ahh, yes... it's because I'm so used to not hearing it. Actually, the only time I have heard it played live was a DSO show at the Westbury Theater last year.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Dstone5553 Posted February 17, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 In the book of love's own dreamWhere all the print is blood Where all the pages are my days And all my lights grow old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Tinkerbell Posted February 17, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 Standing on the moon With nothing else to do A lovely view of heaven But I'd rather be with you . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP gr8fulpair Posted February 17, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 "A pistol shot,... at five o'clock, the bells of heaven ring, tell me what you done it for,... No I won't tell you a thing. Yesterday I begged you,... before I hit the ground, all I leave behind me... is only what I found." "You love him a little more, when you ought to love him less. Why pick up behind him and take his best?" "Everybody prayin'... and drinkin' that wine I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines Come to daddy on the inside straight," "Boots were of leather, a breath of cologne the mirror was a window she sat by alone." "I left St. Louie,... city of blues, In the midst of a storm I'd rather forget.... I tried to pretend it... came to an end, Cause you weren't the women I once thought I'd met." "All the years combine,... they melt into a dream, A broken angel sings.. from my guitar..." "From day to day just letting it ride. You get so far away.. from how it feels inside. You can't let go cause you're afraid to fall,... But the day may come when you can't feel at all." "Everybody prayin' and drinkin' that wine... I can tell the Queen of Diamonds... by the way she shines Come to daddy... on the inside straight," "Drink all day and rock all night, The law come to get you if you don't walk right" Somebody stop me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP chuckvegas Posted February 17, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 This: never look around the bend or check a weather chart and this: grass shack nailed to a pine wood floor and this: still I try and this: our trail is all made up way beyond the blue But my first one is my oldest and deepest love, FWIW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jentry Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 Some grate lyrics that come to my mind today... "A foolish heart will cost you sleep and often make you curse A selfish heart is trouble, but a foolish heart is worse" "laugh in the sunshine.. sing.. cry in the dark.. fly.. fly through the night" "Since it costs a lot to win, and even more to lose.. You and me bound to spend some time, wondering what to choose." "If the thunder don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP arm Posted February 17, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 one last voice is calling you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deadheadmike Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 All the above + As I was walking round Grosvenor Square Not a chill to the winter but a nip to the air From the other direction she was calling my eye It could be an illusion, but I might as well try Might as well try She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes And I knew without asking she was into the blues She wore scarlet begonias, tucked into her curls I knew right away she was not like other girls Other girls In the thick of the evening when the dealing got rough She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff As I picked up my matches and was closing the door I had one of those flashes I had been there before Been there before Well I ain't often right but I've never been wrong It seldom turns out the way it does in the song Once in a while you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right Well there ain't nothing wrong with the way she moves Scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues And there's nothing wrong with the look that's in her eyes I had to learn the hard way to let her pass by Let her pass by The wind in the willows playing Tea for Two The sky was yellow and the sun was blue Strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hand Everybody is playing in the heart of gold band Heart of gold band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgrmag2564 Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 Kinda partial to this one... Well, she can dance a Cajun rhythm, jump like a Willy's in four wheel drive. She's a summer love in the spring, fall and winter. She can make happy any man alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP chuckvegas Posted February 17, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 This is pushing the parameters a little bit (but we do that sometimes here): Well, they're putting up resistance But I know my faith will lead me on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest crazy digits Posted February 18, 2010 Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 ~ hang your heart on laughing willow~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP VincentPuleo Posted February 18, 2010 Forum MVP Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 Well, they're putting up resistance But I know my faith will lead me on yes.. "Bird of paradise fly in white sky, Blues for Allah In 'sh'Allah, Let's see with our heart, These things our eyes have seen, And know the truth must still lie somewhere in between.. Under eternity, under eternity, under eternity blue, Bird of paradise fly in white sky, Blues for Allah In 'sh'Allah" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmanation Posted February 18, 2010 Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 .........i'd rather be with you.......... Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark, fly through the night. Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandanna, Like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eye jack. ugh, I just don't have all night. It might be a lyric, or an association to someone I love, what ever it might be, something in just about every song takes me somewhere... one things for sure, no other music speaks to me so clearly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakada Posted February 18, 2010 Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 "whoa-o, what i want to know, is are you kind..." "as well to count the angels dancin' on a pin..." "like an angel, standin' in a shaft of light...rising up to paradise...you know i'm gonna shine..." "crippled but free, i was blind all the time i was learnin' to see" "speak with wisdom like a child, directly to the heart..." "once in awhile you can get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if you look at it right..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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