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flanders53
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amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here!
#1829402 - 08/19/03 11:31 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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i am really starting to love the grateful dead. i know, i'm really late!! but i really love them now, and know alot of their lyrics. but not nearly enough of them. I'm really interested in reading some of their most amazing lyrics. I'm sure alot of you know some good ones, so I was hoping that you could post them here on this thread. I'm sorry if this is repetitive and has been done many times before. Thanks alot everyone.
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: flanders53]
#1829471 - 08/19/03 11:49 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sometimes we live no particular way but our own. Eyes of the World
-------------------- Everybody must give something back for something they got.- Bob Dylan
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: EthanEdwards]
#1829631 - 08/19/03 12:25 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night. Ripple
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: Pala]
#1829634 - 08/19/03 12:26 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right - Scarlet Begonias
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: flanders53]
#1829651 - 08/19/03 12:30 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Heres the words to all of Hunter/Garcia songs Memorize them for they are gospel. http://www.dead.net/RobertHunterArchive/files/lyrics/teleprompter.html
-------------------- Some rise Some fall Some climb To get to Terrapin!!!
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: chinacat72]
#1829898 - 08/19/03 01:37 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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You've opened a can of worms here my friend.
I've been known to post a lyric or two here in the pub.
Crazy Fingers
Your rain falls like crazy fingers Peals of fragile thunder keeping time Recall the days that still are to come some sing blue. Hang your heart on laughing willow stray Down to the water, deep sea of love beneath the sweet calm face of the sea swift undertow.
Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know, See how it feels in the end. May Lady Lullaby sing plainly for you soft, strong, sweet and true. Cloud hands reaching from a rainbow tapping at the window, touch your hair So swift and bright strange figures of light float in air.
Who can stop what must arrive now? Something new is waiting to be born Dark as the night you're still by my side shine inside . 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.
Life may be sweeter for this, I don't know, Feels like it might be alright, While Lady Lullaby sings plainly through you Love still rings true. Never could reach it, just slips away but I try.
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: Ripple]
#1830176 - 08/19/03 02:45 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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the dead have written some of the best lyrics.
i may be going to hell in a bucket babe, but at least im enjoying the ride.
im goin crazy tryin to think of some, there are too many ahhh.
dear mr. fantasy is good, brokedown palace, black muddy river, chinacat/i know you ryder, satnding on the moon, darkstar.
theres just too much, ow yeah terrapin station.
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: flanders53]
#1830330 - 08/19/03 03:16 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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hey, my chest feels kinda tight. fuck it, pass me a twinkie- Jerry Garcia
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: flanders53]
#1830935 - 08/19/03 06:10 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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In the attics of my life, full of cloudy dreams unreal. Full of tastes no tongue can know, and lights no eyes can see. When there was no ear to hear, you sang to me.
I have spent my life seeking all that's still unsung. Bent my ear to hear the tune, and closed my eyes to see. When there was no strings to play, you played to me.
In the book of love's own dream, where all the print is blood. Where all the pages are my days, and all the lights grow old. When I had no wings to fly, you flew to me, you flew to me.
In the secret space of dreams, where I dreaming lay amazed. When the secrets all are told, and the petals all unfold. When there was no dream of mine, you dreamed of me.
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: Ripple]
#1831134 - 08/19/03 07:36 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Just like Jack the Ripper Just like Mojo Hand Just like Billy Sunday In a shotgun ragtime band Just like New York City, Just like Jericho Pace the halls and climb the walls Get out when they blow
Did you say your name was Ramblin' Rose? Ramble on, baby Settle down easy Ramble on, Rose
Just like Jack and Jill Mama told the sailor One heat up and one cool down Leave nothin' for the tailor Just like Jack and Jill My Papa told the jailer One go up and one come down Do yourself a favor
Did you say your name was Ramblin' Rose? Ramble on, baby Settle down easy Ramble on, Rose
I'm gonna sing you a hundred verses in ragtime I know this song it ain't never gonna end I'm gonna march you up and down the local county line Take you to the leader of the band
Just like Crazy Otto Just like Wolfman Jack Sittin' plush with a royal flush Aces back to back Just like Mary Shelley Just like Frankenstein Clank your chains and count your change Try to walk the line
Did you say your name was Ramblin' Rose? Ramble on, baby Settle down easy Ramble on, Rose
Goodbye, Mama and Papa Goodbye, Jack and Jill The grass ain't greener, the wine ain't sweeter either side of the hill.
Did you say your name was Ramblin' Rose? Ramble on, baby Settle down easy Ramble on, Rose
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#1831480 - 08/19/03 09:31 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Dire Wolf
In the timbers of Fennario the wolves are running round The winter was so hard and cold froze ten feet neath the ground
Don't murder me I beg of you don't murder me Please don't murder me
I sat down to my supper T'was a bottle of red whiskey I said my prayers and went to bed That's the last they saw of me
Don't murder me I beg of you don't murder me Please don't murder me
When I awoke, the Dire Wolf Six hundred pounds of sin Was grinnin at my window All I said was "come on in"
Don't murder me I beg of you don't murder me Please don't murder me
The wolf came in, I got my cards We sat down for a game I cut my deck to the Queen of Spades but the cards were all the same
Don't murder me I beg of you don't murder me Please don't murder me
In the backwash of Fennario The black and bloody mire The Dire Wolf collects his due while the boys sing round the fire
Don't murder me I beg of you don't murder me Please don't murder me
-------------------- "Early man walked away As modernman took control There mind's weren't all the same And to conquer was their goal So he built his great empire And he slaughtered his own kind He died a confused man And killed himself in his own mind"
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: flanders53]
#1831483 - 08/19/03 09:32 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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some days the gales are howling some days the sea is still as glass
Lost Sailor
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: infidelGOD]
#1831504 - 08/19/03 09:38 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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let it be known there is a fountain that was not made buy the hands of man
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: purpleberries]
#1831514 - 08/19/03 09:42 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Can't talk to me without talking to you We're guilty of the same old thing Talking a lot about less and less And forgetting the love we bring
Althea
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: Fungushungry]
#1831555 - 08/19/03 09:53 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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If I had a gun for every ace I've drawn I could arm a town the size of Abilene Don't you push me baby cause I'm moaning low You know I'm only in it for the gold All that I am asking for is ten gold dollars I could pay you back with one good hand You can look around about the wide world over You'll never find another honest man Last fair deal in the country, sweet Suzy Last fair deal in the town Put your gold money where your love is, baby Before you let my deal go down Don't you push me baby because I'm moaning low I know a little something you won't ever know Don't you touch hard liquor just a cup of cold coffee Gonna get up in the morning and go Everybody's bragging and drinking that wine I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shine Come to Daddy on an inside straight I got no chance of losing this time No, I got no chance of losing this time
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: GGreatOne234]
#1831621 - 08/19/03 10:16 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Terrapin station
Let my inspiration flow in token lines suggesting rhythm that will not forsake me till my tale is told and done
While the firelight's aglow strange shadows in the flames will grow till things we've never seen will seem familiar
Shadows of a sailor forming winds both foul and fair all swarm down in Carlisle he loved a lady many years ago
Here beside him stands a man a soldier by the looks of him who came through many fights but lost at love
While the storyteller speaks a door within the fire creaks suddenly flies open and a girl is standing there
Eyes alight with glowing hair all that fancy paints as fair she takes her fan and throws it in the lion's den
"Which of you to gain me, tell will risk uncertain pains of Hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance"
The sailor gave at least a try the soldier being much too wise strategy was his strength and not disaster
The sailor coming out again the lady fairly lept at him that's how it stands today you decide if he was wise
The storyteller makes no choice soon you will not hear his voice his job is to shed light and not to master
Since the end is never told we pay the teller off in gold in hopes he will come back but he cannot be bought or sold
TERRAPIN STATION
Inspiration, move me brightly light the song with sense and color, hold away despair More than this I will not ask faced with mysteries dark and vast statements just seem vain at last some rise, some fall, some climb to get to Terrapin
Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright: the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, From the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon [from Tom Polakis' Twilight Astronomy Landscapes page.] crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune
Terrapin Station in the shadow of the moon Terrapin Station and I know we'll be there soon
Terrapin - I can't figure out Terrapin - if it's an end or the beginning Terrapin - but the train's got its brakes on and the whistle is screaming: TERRAPIN
AT A SIDING
While you were gone these spaces filled with darkness The obvious was hidden With nothing to believe in the compass always points to Terrapin
The sullen wings of fortune beat like rain You're back in Terrapin for good or ill again For good or ill again
great thread
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: Infrared]
#1831731 - 08/19/03 11:05 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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last post of the night with a good one.
hunter/garcia Help on the way
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
peace
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: Infrared]
#1833301 - 08/20/03 12:02 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Wow.
I can't believe the Dead have been making people feel this wonderful for so many years. It is absolutely mindblowing to me. I am only now jumping on the bandwagon, I saw the Dead twice this summer and it was 1000 times more than I ever thought it could be. I can't imagine how amazing it would be to have been with them all along.
Everything I've heard from them is so incredible. The live experience is totally beyond description. I'm hooked!
Guys I have a wonderful thing to tell you. At the 2nd show I went to I brought along a friend of mine who is into music, but not INTO it like I am. He'd actually never really heard much at all of the Grateful Dead. He's a hardass in a way. Not a hardass, he's the least serious person you could meet. But he's not one to show emotion, AT ALL. Well, he was absolutely blown out of his mind. It was so amazing to see him taken over by the love and the vibe and the music and the experience. He was actually in tears. I was speechless. The Dead have dominated me. AHHHHHHHHH!!!!! :)
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: flanders53]
#1833331 - 08/20/03 12:10 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Brown Eyed Women ----------------
Gone are the days when the ox fall down Take up the yoke and plow the fields around Gone are the days when the ladies said please Gen'ral Jack Jones won't you come to me.
Brown eyed women and red grenadine The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean Sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down And it looks like the old man's getting on.
1920 when he steped to the bar drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar, 1930 when the wall caved in he made his way selling red eyed gin.
Brown eyed women and red grenadine The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean Sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down And it looks like the old man's getting on.
Delilah Jones was the mother of twins Two times over and the rest was sins Raised eight boys, only I turned bad Didn't get the lickin's that the other ones had.
Brown eyed women and red grenadine The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean Sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down And it looks like the old man's getting on.
Tumble down shack in Big Foot County Snowed so hard that the roof caved in Delilah Jones went to meet her god And the old man never was the same again.
Daddy made whiskey and he made it well Cost two dollars and burned like hell I cut hickory just to fire the still Drink down a bottle and be ready to kill.
Brown eyed women and red grenadine The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean Sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down And it looks like the old man's getting on.
Gone are the days when the ox fall down You take up the yoke and plow the fields around Gone are the days when the ladies said please Gen'ral Jack Jones won't you come to me.
Brown eyed women and red grenadine The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean Sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down And it looks like the old man's getting on And it looks like the old man's getting on.
I've got a recording of this song from 5-11-76 I believe. wow. Such GOOD music. Ahh! Have you guys heard of Furthernet? Its a file sharing application that shares mainly live bootlegs of the Dead. Check it out!!
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Re: amazing grateful dead quotes-please post some here! [Re: flanders53]
#1836513 - 08/21/03 08:35 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sittin in Mangrove valley chasing light beams Everything wanders from baby to Z Baby Baby pretty it up on Tuesday Old like a rum-drinking demon at tea. Baby Baby tell me what's the matter, what, what tell me what's your why how? Tell me why will you never come home Tell me what's your reason, if you've got a good one.
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