Grateful Dead Lyrics

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  1. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    This thread is for posting lyrics to Grateful Dead songs only. Enjoy!
     
  2. alice_d_millionaire

    alice_d_millionaire Just Do It©

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    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.
     
  3. SaintStephen

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    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.
     
  4. Revi

    Revi Member

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    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

     
  5. shine_crazydiamond

    shine_crazydiamond Member

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    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.
     
  6. RoziRabito

    RoziRabito Member

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    Original Manuscript by Robert Hunter
     
  7. trippedelia

    trippedelia wow

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    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.
     
  8. rphishin

    rphishin Member

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    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
     
  9. shine_crazydiamond

    shine_crazydiamond Member

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    [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]
     
  10. hippy i am

    hippy i am poppy seed bagels

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    incese & the dead.
    perfect for unwinding from the day.
     
  11. crummyrummy

    crummyrummy Brew Your Own Beer Lifetime Supporter

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    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]
     
  12. MIIDAJ

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    broken heart dont seem to bad, you aint got half of what you thought you had. - row jimmy row
     
  13. Quoth the Raven

    Quoth the Raven RaveIan

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    Let it grow. Sums up everything really ;)
     
  14. rebubla72

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    if i knew the way, i would take you home
     
  15. gratefuldeadhead144

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    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
     
  16. lovejanisandgrace

    lovejanisandgrace Estimated Prophet

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    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.
     
  17. shine_crazydiamond

    shine_crazydiamond Member

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    going where the wind don't blow so strange
     
  18. zodiacflower

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    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.
     
  19. PeaceColors33

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    U guys gotta check out www.archive.org

    They have alot of Different jam bands
    really cool


    Peace
     
  20. drumminmama

    drumminmama Super Moderator Lifetime Supporter

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    ^^ 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.
     

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