Grateful Dead Lyrics

    ------ About the song Black Throated Wind performed by Grateful Dead

BTW to me is a song about love lost and self reflection. All of us while becoming an adult reach a point where we are completely on our own and realize who we are. BTW hit me the first time while traveling across country at 28 in the middle of a breakup with my girlfriend of 7 years. It helped me piece together who I was and how I came to terms with my place in not only my relationship with her but with the world. It helped me realize that trying to please others is pointless if you can't be content with yourself. The most important lyric for me is "looking at you is looking at me". To me that meant learn what makes you happy before trying to make others happy. Happiness is a decision we all have to make, not force on others. My life has been better ever since. Thanks to the good ol' grateful dead to put things in perspective.

    ------ About the song Wharf Rat performed by Grateful Dead

I think this song is about a man who meets a drunk and then it goes back and forth from the drunk (Wharf Rat) to the man.

The man at the end questions his own life while for the drunk hope always springs eternal. " I'll get up and fly away " is his way of saying I will get out of this someday. It is all an addict/alcoholic can hang on to.

Take it from me , I have lived it - both sides actually...

    ------ About the song Crazy Fingers performed by Grateful Dead

Crazy fingers is my second favorite dead tune (Althea the first). It is a love song but more so sings to the bittersweet of life. Swift undertow, and of course going for the gold ring but never can reach... but I try. We all try, again and again and again. It is rare to reach the gold ring and most times if we do- swift undertow!

    ------ About the song Cold Jordan performed by Grateful Dead

Through the haze of at least three hits of acid, the message of this song resonated subliminally. It was, indeed, the voice of my wonderful Lord and Savior planting a seed in my soul.

Raised a secular Jew, I had no idea that there was anything other than the material world. Until I discovered the wonderful synchronicity of the early Grateful Dead. At Harpur College (my alma mater), on May 2, 1970 (Dick's Pick's 8, and Dick Latvala's favorite show) -- somehow the unsuspected existence of a spirit world broke in on me. It was a considerable journey out of drugs, and through Eastern religions before I embraced Jesus as my Lord and Savior on August 11th-12th, 1973. Now a Christian for almost 40 years, and a minister for 30, I date my spiritual awakening to that wild night in Binghamton.

In addition to that experience, I must thank Johann Sebastian Bach for not being an idiot and being a heartfelt Christian. I was exposed to his music in my teens, and wondered how such a brilliant man could believe in Christianity, which I considered to be complete superstition, and the one thing in the world that was guaranteed not to be true.

It's seems a shame to me that none of my idols in the Grateful Dead ever grasped the reality of a personal God Whose name is Jesus -- even though their shamanism showed me the way. I don't think that the Dead performed Cold Jordan very often -- I only heard it that one time at Binghamton. But I thank God that Jesus is more powerful than the satanic environment that the Holy Spirit led me out of. If anybody ever reads this review: Recieve Jesus, and follow Him! When you come to the end of the way, and along the road as well, you will never be sorry!

God bless you all!

    ------ About the song Standing On The Moon performed by Grateful Dead

The melody haunts me. Can't believe I never saw them or really got into the dead now that Jerry is gone...only now do I realize what I missed. OH well....
I can't get this song out my head...I miss the man I love so much. He has moved forward. I have not. I'd rather be with him.

    ------ About the song Crazy Fingers performed by Grateful Dead

Hunter wrote these opaque, beautiful lyrics and Garcia put them to unthinkably beautiful music. Non Deadheads won't understand, but the good news is that Furthur and John Kadlecik brought it back.

    ------ About the song Deal performed by Grateful Dead

Yes, the Dead performed Deal but Jerry took this tune with him wherever he went. It was his creative gateway that always led to redemption. It has that trademark crescendo that Jerry strived for, it would build and build until you were sure it couldn’t build anymore and it then it would. You were electrified, you literally blew your mind. Oh those nights down on Market @ the Warfield and the Orpheum theaters....

    ------ About the song Let It Grow performed by Grateful Dead

Like other reviewer, love Wake of the Flood version of this tune. I've heard this song numerous times both live & on recording. But, to me, 1974 for some reason has some incredible incarnations of this tune. Please, check out 5/14/74, up in the wonderful state (of mind) Montana, Let it Grow drifts into a Fab Dark Star....OMG..
The whole show is great though, Check It!
Enjoy!

    ------ About the song What's Become Of The Baby performed by Grateful Dead

this is truely an extrondenary song, i love turning the lights off in my room and puting aoxomoxoa on the turn table a just melt. this song shows what lsd can truly do. also when im high on acid, and its on , i freaks me out and then cosmic charie comes on and you see my grin grow.

    ------ About the song Wharf Rat performed by Grateful Dead

"I also don't like taking it at face value, even though that's how Hunter probably wrote it. A guy who is locked away half his life for another man's crime, gets out and finds a way to spend his days drinking wine on the docks of a city and drinks burgundy exclusively but has a clear memory and a hopeful spirit is a pretty romantic characte"


maybe the line spent doing time for some other fuckers crime isnt literal, but the other fucker is august west when hes on the bottle or blacked out, i have friends who have "spent time for some other fuckers crime" because they had no idea what they were doing and no memory. i think the some other fucker is the person who comes out in us when were black out on burgundy