Mindbender If I could only (be less fine) [or possibly: If only I could be less blind] If only I knew what to find, Everywhere and all of the time-- It's bending my mind. Confusion's prince is at my door. The crown I wear's the one he wore He's here to bring me down some more And bend my mind. The friendly stranger called my name He only wants me for his game But it don't matter, just the same I'll bend his mind. I've waved my flags into the sun I've fought my wars, and now they're won And I don't need nobody's gun I bent their mind.
http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/gdhome.html The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics Page Its got a comprehensive list of most of their songs with notes referring to the origin of certain stanzas and lines. It also has a few essays which are definitely worth reading. I particularly enjoy reading the one about Dark Star.
Lost now on the country miles in his Cadillac. I can tell by the way you smile he's rolling back. Come wash the nighttime clean, Come grow this scorched ground green, Blow the horn, tap the tambourine Close the gap of the dark years in between You and me, Cassidy... These lyrics are amazing, and they just touch you. If they dont, and if they don't even make you think, then there's something wrong with you! They are BEAUTIFUL peace&&love
All I know is something like a bird within her sang, All I know she sang a little while and then flew on, Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain. If you hear that same sweet song again, will you know why? Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passin' by, Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark, fly through the night. Don't cry now, don't you cry, don't you cry anymore. Sleep in the stars, don't you cry, dry your eyes on the wind. All I know is something like a bird within her sang, All I know she sang a little while and then flew off, Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain i love this song, and it was wrote in the memory of janis so it makes it very special to me.
wow! thats cool as.^^ whenever ive bin at school and my spiritual force crushed by the end of the day, i just pop on some dead and by the end of one song everything is back.
So very true. The Grateful Dead keep me on an even keel in an increasingly crazy world...glad at least I don't stress about my job anymore tho...that's a freedom in itself. Sleepy alligator in the noonday sun, lyin by the river like he usually done, Call for his whiskey and he call for his tea Call all he wanna but he can't call me
[size=+2]Can't Come Down[/size] Lyrics: Grateful Dead Music: Grateful Dead I'm flying down deserted streets Wrapped in mother's winding sheets Asbestos boots on flaming feet Dreaming of forbidden treats When uniforms on nighttime beats Ask me where I'm going and what I eat I answer them with a voice so sweet Chorus I can't come down, it's plain to see I can't come down, I've been set free Who you are and what you do don't make no difference to me Well someone trying to tell me where it's at And how I do this and why I do that With secret smiles like a Cheshire cat And leather wings like a vampire bat I fly away to my cold water flat And eat my way through a bowl of fat And I say to the man with the funny hat [Chorus] They say I've begun to lose my grip My hold on reality is starting to slip They tell me to get off this trip They say that it's like a sinking ship Life's sweet wine's too warm to sip And if I drink I'll surely flip I just say as I take a nip [Chorus] So as I dream of forgotten seas And granite halls and redwood trees And of the eye that only sees Endless mirrors and infinite me's About the winter's coming freeze This afterthought I say with ease To all of you who make your fees [Chorus]
Morning comes, she follows the path to the river shore Lightly sung, her song is the latch on the morning's door See the sun sparkle in the reeds; silver beads pass into the sea She comes from a town where they call her the woodcutter's daughter She's brown as the bank where she kneels down to gather her water And she bears it away with a love that the river has taught her Let it flow, greatly flow, wide and clear Round and round, the cut of the plow in the furrowed field Seasons round, the bushels of corn and the barley meal Broken ground, open and beckoning to the spring; black dirt live again The plowman is broad as the back of the land he is sowing As he dances the circular track of the plow ever knowing That the work of his day measures more than the planting and growing Let it grow, let it grow, greatly yield Chorus What shall we say, shall we call it by a name As well to count the angels dancing on a pin Water bright as the sky from which it came And the name is on the earth that takes it in We will not speak but stand inside the rain And listen to the thunder shout I am, I am, I am, I am So it goes, we make what we made since the world began Nothing more, the love of the women, work of men Seasons round, creatures great and small, up and down, as we rise and fall [chorus]
Paradise waits on the crest of a wave her angels in flame She has no pain Like a child, she is pure She is not to blame Poised for flight Wings spread bright Spring from night into the sun Don't stop to run She can fly like a lie She cannot be outdone Tell me the cost I can pay Let me go Tell me love is not lost Sell everything Without love, day to day, insanity is king I will pay day by day anyway Lock, bolt and key Crippled but free I was blind all the time I was learning to see Help on the way I know only this I've got you today Don't fly away 'cause I love what I love and I want it that way I will stay one more day Like I say Honey, it's you Without love in the dream It will never come true
Those original lyrics were amazing. I'm listening to this right now! 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. Crazy cat peekin through a lace bandanna, Like a one-eyed cheshire, like a diamond-eye jack. A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle, To a double-e waterfall over my back. Comic book colors on a violin river cryin leonardo, Words from out a silk trombone. I rang a silent bell, beneath a shower of pearls, In the eagle-winged palace of the queen chinee.
See that girl, barefootin along, Whistlin and singin, shes a carryin on. Theres laughing in her eyes, dancing in her feet, Shes a neon-light diamond and she can live on the street. Hey hey, hey, come right away Come and join the party every day. Well everybodys dancin in a ring around the sun Nobodys finished, we aint even begun. So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat. Try on your wings and find our where its at. Hey hey, hey, come right away Come and join the party every day. Take a vacation, fall out for a while, Summers comin in, and its goin outta style Cause your mothers down in memphis, wont be back till the fall. Hey hey, hey, come right away Come and join the party every day.
^^ 99 percent of the forum had posted that site. this is a lyrics only sticky, so the anotated dead lyrics site might be more appropriate.