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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 9:54am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Grateful death songs |
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Poster: | jglynn1.2 | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:17am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
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Poster: | bluedevil | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:17am |
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:22am |
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Poster: | snori | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 11:47am |
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 12:32pm |
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Hunter's note in the Box of Rain anthology says:
"An unrecorded GD song dealing obliquely with Altamont."
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Poster: | Styrofoam Cueball | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 8:23pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
"Hang me, O hang me
until I'm dead and gone...
I wouldn't mind the hanging boys, but the wait in jail's so long..."
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Poster: | West Cumberland Blues | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 11:05am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
When they come to take you down
When they bring that wagon round
When they come to call on you
and drag your poor body down...
...One last voice is calling you
and I guess it's time you go
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Poster: | Estimated Pete | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 9:50pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
But this love/war song has a happy ending, at least for Jack the sailor and the wealthy merchant's Beautiful daughter. Not so happy among the dead and wounded where she found her darling boy.
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Poster: | lobster12 | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 4:06pm |
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Poster: | fenario80 | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 9:56am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
Interesting approach ...
China Doll seems to be about a murder
A pistol shot at 5 o'clock,
the bells of heaven ring.
Me & My Uncle, multiple murders.
He's Gone - I know it was supposedly originally about Lenny Hart, but it became so much more after the loss of Pigpen, and then much later, Brent.
Wharf Rat might not be so specific, but it takes place in that same brokedown-old-men-dying-alone space, along with Stella Blue, and Black Peter.
Morning Dew is all about death and loss.
Brokedown Palace.
Black Muddy River.
If I were capable of remembering the lyrics, I might also suggest What's Become of the Baby? - that's a death song, isn't it?
There must be lots more ...
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Poster: | jerrys beard | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:10am |
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Poster: | Earl B. Powell | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:01am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
The other day I went to Mars and talked to God
And he told me to tell you to hang tight and don't worry
The solution to everything is death
Big River
I'm gonna sit right here until I die
Cream Puff War
I can't believe that she really wants you to die
El Paso
I shot first and killed him
Leaving Terrapin
Let us rest at ease and if you die before we do
Sing Me Back Home
Won't you sing me back home, before I die
Mason's Children
All he said, when dead and gone, won't you weep for me
Tennessee Jed
You know you bound to wind up dead
Wharf Rat
Pearly's been true, true to me, true to my dying day
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Poster: | snori | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 11:33am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
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Poster: | jglynn1.2 | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 11:18am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
Hurts my ears to listen, Shannon
Burns my eyes to see
Cut down a man in cold blood, Shannon
Might as well be me
Jack Straw from Wichita
Cut his buddy down
Dug for him a shallow grave
And layed his body down
I think Me & My Uncle was already mentioned, however, I'd like to say this is one of my all time favorite Lyrics about death:
I love those cowboys, I love their gold,
I loved my uncle, God rest his soul,
Taught me good, Lord, Taught me all I know
Taught me so well, I grabbed that gold
And I left his dead ass there by the side of the road.
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Poster: | light into ashes | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 11:50am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
And of course, He Was a Friend of Mine. But now he's dead and gone!
You could count the acoustic gospel songs they did, too, like Swing Low and I Hear a Voice Callin'....
Oh, then there's this one...
Lay down, my dear brother
Lay down and take your rest
Why don't you lay your head upon your savior's breast
I love you but Jesus loves you the best
And I bid you goodnight
Sing Me Back Home is probably their premier death cover, though.
But I can't believe no one has mentioned Cryptical!
"Well, you know he had to DIE-IE-IE-IE (BANG, CRASH)....."
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 12:27pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
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Poster: | barongsong | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 12:43pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
Next thread, life songs: I bet it will include most of the songs mentioned here because after all there can't be one without the other, blah blah blah.
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Poster: | light into ashes | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 1:35pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
Dark Star crashes
Pouring its light into ashes....
One thing about songs like Dupree & Little Sadie & Weir's various cowboy-killing songs - I'd put them more in the category of 'outlaw' or 'murder' or even 'western' songs rather than death per se.
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 2:05pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
Good point, LiA. What I was interested in were the songs that reflected on the nature, the consequences, the philosophy of death and dying, not really the 'dead ass there by the side of the road' songs, entertaining though those are.
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 2:40pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
Well, actually, I was thinking Contract is a bit more of a "life" and not a "death" tune, but as that crosses over toward NRPS, and is "less DEAD", I will refrain.
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Poster: | jglynn1.2 | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 3:30pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
Oh sinner as you tread on life's journey
Take Jesus as your daily guide
Though you may feel pure and saintly
Without Him walking by your side
But when you come to make the crossing
At the ending of his pilgrim's way
If you ever will need your Saviour
You will surely need him on that day
Chorus
Now look at that cold Jordan, look at its deep water
Look at that wide river, oh hear the mighty billows roll
You better take Jesus with you, he's a true companion
Oh I'm sure without him that you never will make it home
That awful day of judgement is coming in the by and by
We'll see our Lord descending in glory from on high
Oh, let us keep in touch with Jesus and in the special love of God
And may we ever be called ready when he calls us over Jordan's tide
[chorus]
Now what you gonna do, oh what you gonna say
Oh how you gonna feel when you come to the end of the way?
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Poster: | barongsong | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 1:45pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
Let's ask Dire Wolf he'll know for sure. lol
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Poster: | bluedevil | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 1:56pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
Then again, Death is not the end...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9adWrWagg6k&feature=related
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Poster: | sweetwilliam | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 1:59pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
the Dead, way back when, and from the very first I always interpreted it as having to do with suicide rather than murder. Just a feeling I had... not until today did I know it was sometimes referred to as 'The Suicide Song'.
Just an aside here-if you are partial to this song, check out Saratoga 6/24/84 for an astounding version.
Peace.
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Poster: | barongsong | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 2:08pm |
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Poster: | DeadRed1971 | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 4:18pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
How about Brown Eyed Women?:
Tumble down shack in Bigfoot 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
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Poster: | banditos33 | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 6:26pm |
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Poster: | cush212 | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 9:39am |
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 9:46am |
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Poster: | cush212 | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 9:53am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
Forgot to ask what's for dinner? Me getting hungry!!!
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 9:59am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
Hey, guess who I bumped into at the opticians yesterday?
Everybody!
See you later, buddy.
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Poster: | cush212 | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 10:03am |
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Poster: | bbbrew | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 12:36pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
This post was modified by bbbrew on 2009-09-29 19:36:28
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Poster: | deadpolitics | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 3:38pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
This post was modified by deadpolitics on 2009-09-29 22:38:54
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Poster: | light into ashes | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 3:44pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
I agree with you about that ending jam, that it represents death & a transition through some sort of cycle, maybe an afterlife & 'rebirth' or just a continual decaying & replenishing....
Or maybe that's reading too much into it.
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Poster: | Dan Russ | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 4:37pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
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Poster: | deadpolitics | Date: | Oct 16, 2009 8:22am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
I can read your meaning into the lyrics quite easily, especially the part about learning from books that they were burning.
Although the days of the free use of LSD had ended, the changes in perspective experienced by the first users would be found in a ripple effect through the whole generation, and society as a whole and into the future.
Because after all, you know that old way of seeing had to die and a new one meant to be born, regardless of what the law said!
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Poster: | jglynn1.2 | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 9:51am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
"Come 'round the bend,
You know it's the end"
Stagger Lee - admittedly more than just about death
Ripple
He's Gone
St. Stephen
"Did he doubt or did he try?
Answers aplenty in the bye and bye"
On a side note, this looks interesting -
http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/schleif.html
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:17am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
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Poster: | snow_and_rain | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:58am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
But at least I'm enjoying the ride.
Winter rain, now tell me why, Summers fade, and roses die.
The answer came; the wind and rain.
It's all over now, Baby Blue.
Knock-Knock-Knockin on Heaven's door.
There were days
and there were days
and there were days between
Summer flies and August dies
the world grows dark and mean
A rifle on my shoulder
six-shooter in my hand, oh lord
I've been all around this world
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Poster: | skies | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 9:43am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
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Poster: | RBNW....new and improved! | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:16am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
A lovely view of heaven but I'd rather be with you
A lovely view of heaven but I'd rather be with you
Be with you
I'd rather be with you
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 9:49am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
I alwyas thought of Attics as a great one in this respect. At least, it seems to me in the same spirit as BlkPet, a reflection on a life's accomplishments and experiences:
In the book of love's own dream
Where all the print is blood
Where all the pages are my days
And all my lights grow old
When I had no wings to fly
You flew to me
Well, blow me down! It's a love song too! Seriously, I have always thought of it as a little of both...?
Morning Dew, though a cover, is a great one for Death of Humanity by its own hand...?
Here's another that is both about death, and the love of the departed:
All I know is something like a bird
within her sang
All I know she sang a little while
and then flew on
And how about "premature pronouncement of death"? Afterall, we find out she's only fractured, depending whether she was the object of the pistol shot I suppose:
A pistol shot at 5 o'clock
The bells of heaven ring...
"Take up your china doll
it's only fractured -
and just a little nervous
from the fall"
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:14am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
I think we're going to find that the two very often go hand in hand - two sides of the coin, etc. You don't regret losing what you never wanted to hold on to, whether it be life or lover.
And yes, Attics is an excellent example.
China Doll is a very deep song. I think it's told from the perspective of the victim, the one shot at five o'clock, possibly by a (misguided?) jealous lover
Yesterday I begged you
Before I hit the ground
who the 'China Doll' forgives and absolves of blame for his/her act, whatever the consequences:
I will not condemn you
Nor yet would I deny
I would ask the same of you
But failing, will not die
I think we could have a whole rich thread on just that song if anyone cares to open it.
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:32am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
Really I was trying to convey that I was initially surprised to find it was both, though I know the lyrics well, and it is self evident...funny, but somehow I had concluded it was an open and shut "death" song, grabbed the lyrics and realized, "duh, it is also..." and then typed that strange little pirate phrase...
Too early in the morning?
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Poster: | fenario80 | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:08am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
According to the Annotated Grateful dead lyics, the original title of China Doll was "The Suicide Song" but they don't say where they got that information ...
http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/doll.html
That title adds a whole new spin, doesn't it? It never occurred to me, I always thought it was about murder.
I vaguely remember an interview with Hunter where he said that he wanted to use the broken China Doll - a child's first loss - as a symbol for all earthly tragedy and loss. As far as I can tell they were successful - it's one of jerry's greatest 'mood' songs.
Can't believe I didn't think of Bird Song ...
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Poster: | light into ashes | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 2:54pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | China Doll |
http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=166211
A couple things I'd mention -
One, that the quotation marks in the song are apparently Hunter's. For me, they make the song a bit more confusing, since the lines seem to make less sense when you read it as a dialogue, but maybe someone else can figure it out. (Not that there's a precise meaning, I suspect.)
Also, I believe the music setting also informs the lyrics - before the last verse, the music seems to 'resolve' and become brighter, and the 'la la la's at the end seem to indicate that the singer's become less mournful than at the beginning. But that's just a guess.
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 9:51am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: China Doll |
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Poster: | light into ashes | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 11:47am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: China Doll |
Though people may think of forums like this as a "community", it's more like a hobo camp where different people drift in & out at different times, ignorance prevails at all times, and the most insightful members are the ones who haven't been heard from in months or years.... But that's life.
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Poster: | Jerrob Hungar | Date: | Oct 2, 2009 7:10am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: China Doll |
I miss the participation of many of the forum's former contributors, especially AshesRising, ghostofpig, BryanE and many others whose names I've temporarily forgotten (organic brain syndrome). However, folks like your good self, help keep the home fires burning.
The wiki says, 'In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks, and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness.'
Your 'Hobo Camp' description does appeal to me though. http://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/2009/09/howie-good.html
I Am A Lonesome Hobo
Kind ladies and kind gentlemen,
Soon I will be gone,
But let me just warn you all,
Before I do pass on;
Stay free from petty jealousies,
Live by no man's code,
And hold your judgment for yourself
Lest you wind up on this road.
Copyright ©1968; renewed 1996 Dwarf Music
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 5:59am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: China Doll |
Thanks for finding it.
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:30am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
Though out of my era, and not one of my fav tunes, there is something that draws me to CDoll...not sure, but almost like it's a strange little "poetry reading" in the middle of a jam...if that makes sense.
Not sure I can speak to the depth that you and Rob aspire to in this case though...will have to look up the complete lyrics...
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:36am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
But yes indeed, your point well taken. I was lightly roasted by the late, great ghostofpig when I suggested some time ago that the reader's interpretation of the song reveals as much about the reader as the writer:
""The thing about a great lyric or poem is that it holds up a mirror to the reader wherein he sees reflected back his own hopes and fears and experiences – which may, or more likely may not, parallel those of the poet."
Oh sweet haggis, not the mirror metaphor. Good poetry holds up a the bank of wisdom and, like Robin Hood, dispenses its riches to the impoverished and needy.""
But in my idiot way I still think there's some merit in it!
(Come back, gop!)
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:44am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
"This song was originally titled The Suicide Song, and I at first looked at it as a dialog between a suicide and God or Jesus, where the suicide argues in favor of being allowed into heaven even though he/she committed what for Catholics is an unforgivable sin. But then an even more bizarre interpretation dawned on me, and well, you should always go with the bizarre.
I think one way to look at this song is to see it as a commentary on the threat of nuclear war. It imagines the aftermath of The Bomb in much the same way Morning Dew did. In this light, I see the song as a dialog between a Human (representing humankind) and a Creator in the wake of a nuclear holocaust where humans destroy themselves completely. The bombs are dispatched-- "a pistol shot at five o'clock"-- and the resulting holocaust shakes even "the bells of heaven", causing them to ring. The Creator, perhaps in despair of His destroyed work, asks the Human "Tell me what you done it for". The Human refuses to "tell you a thing".
But then the Human points out that he/she had begged the Creator yesterday "before I hit the ground", a plea for mercy that the Creator was unable to give. The Human also consoles the Creator with "all I leave behind me is only what I found", meaning that while mankind and its works are destroyed, the earth will eventually recover and life will go on. The Human then asks "if you can abide it let the hurdy-gurdy play", meaning even though mankind is so flawed as to create the means of its own destruction, let it be born again out of the ashes of its self-destruction. After all, "stranger ones" than we have come and gone in the pageant of the cosmos.
Finally, the Human promises that unlike in the time of Jesus, "I will not condemn you nor yet would I deny", perhaps signaling a promise of a new birth in spirituality among humankind. The Human then asks the Creator to also refrain from condemning or denying its creation just because it is flawed, but assures the Creator that in any case, it "will not die".
In the last part, the Human reassures the Creator that his creation will survive even this self-destruction, that the Creator can "Take up your china doll" (the earth/life), which isn't destroyed but "only fractured, just a little nervous from the fall".
How's that for way over-thinking this song!!!"
I assume all of that is HIM not HUNTER, except that he somehow knows it was called the suicide song...are we sure? I assume it's the case, but, anyhow, interesting analysis above, eh?
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Poster: | fenario80 | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 11:47am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
Rob's right that we could do a whole thread just on this one song. It's one of Hunter's ripest lyrics.
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 11:07am |
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 1:09pm |
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 2:37pm |
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I can't believe how juvenile I can be when something is funny. Pathetic, but what the Hell; I've paid my dues.
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Poster: | skies | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 7:28am |
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 7:48am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
But, you give me too much credit as a mustelid inclined toward cheap laughs...you should know that GoP was a regular regular round here for years, and being compared with him isn't the insult you imagine...it was only funny to me because of the implications of how your combined approaches to posting might explain any number of past interactions. There's really not anything derogatory about it--an inside joke of a trivial sort.
So, don't get your French undies in a bundy.
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 9:18am |
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Poster: | skies | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 8:38am |
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Poster: | bbbrew | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 8:34am |
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Poster: | skies | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 9:55am |
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Poster: | skies | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 5:27am |
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:26am |
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"But failing, will not die"
Failure to see the suicide attempt through?
Seriously, can we start a China Doll thread sometime?
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:36am |
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I'll check the lyrics before babbling more...
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 10:47am |
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Poster: | Earl B. Powell | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 12:29pm |
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This post was modified by Earl B. Powell on 2009-09-29 19:29:21
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Poster: | fenario80 | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 11:58am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Grateful death songs |
"Willow sky,
well I walk and wonder why
they say love your brother,
but you will catch it when you try,
Roll you down the line, boy ..."
I think of these lines all the time ... they are with me in my everyday life, more than any other GD lyric.
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Sep 29, 2009 11:35am |
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Poster: | cush212 | Date: | Sep 30, 2009 9:27am |
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Pargon typos on same account pleez