Childhoods End

I saw a few GD versions.  It was boring and kind of a buzzkill.

All the tunes Jerry didn't bother to learn sounded a bit weak.

All the tunes Jerry didn't bother to learn sounded a bit weak.

There's a good reason that his songs from this era faded away.

Prefer the Pink Floyd version...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wja_jhP_DGo

and Mason's SOS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgDKZVVvBBs

That song sucks

Wasn't this his rip on Healy? 

There's a rip on Healy?

Shoe Fits seems more likely.

That's it...

"Run along, take your ball and go home"

I thought it was a nod to the Arthur C. Clarke sci-fi novel, although in title only.  As far as I could suss, it was Phil's ode to outgrowing partying hard and being comfortable in his Dad jeans.  It was horribly out of place in the chaos that were '90s GD shows.

I like the song. I attended the Deer Creek 94 debut

CHILDHOOD'S END

Lyrics By: 

Phil Lesh

Music By: 

Phil Lesh

When I was hoppin' freights and makin' payments on the farm
Here between the angels and the deep blue sea
You were runnin', laughin', growin' sheltered from the storm
Dreamin' of the day the moon would set you free
Yeah, to sing your siren song so sweet and warm

River run deep
River run slow
Get a little restless
Wanna see some whales blow

River run cold
River run clear
That feeling always gets to me
'Round about this time of year

Scoutin' unknown borders under multi-colored moons
In the wildest flights of cosmic mystery
Rang a single soarin' tone that strung the sky in tune
As the silence in my heart rose from the sea
Aaah, to greet you in the dawn with a pale harpoon

River run restless
River run high
Runnin' thru a hailstorm
Try to catch a star on the fly

River run muddy
River flow like tears
Cocoon of life surroundin' us
Holdin' all our hopes and fears

Reach behind the wind
Search beyond the stars
We're the life on Mars

When the day grows dark and scary scatterin' the light
All the colors run away and hide behind your knees
The same sweet thunder tumbles rollin' down the night
Like a mothership that calls for you and me
Come on, and drift along that sky river bright

River run swiftly
River run wide
Feel like sailin'
On the morning tide

River run golden
River run true
Set a course and follow
Ooooh, the star that leads to young 

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/chil.html

https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/imaginary-final-single-if-the-shoe-fi...

I always liked the 94 Phil n friends version best

I love the Deercreek and acoustic versions from 1994. Cheesy as it may be, it spoke to me, and it had great potential. The 5/27/2000 version by Phil & Friends was horrible.

"Shoe Fits seems more likely."

Phil didn't write those lyrics.

I didn't think Phil wrote the lyrics to any of those 90s songs.  So is there a Healy rip or not?

Also, Thom can EAD

It was a rumor on tour...ugly rumor but that's what I had heard back then.   Perhaps no truth but If anyone else has insight I'd be curious.   

"Andrew Charles is a self-taught musician born and raised on the island of Barbados, the West Indies. After moving to the Bay Area in 1993, he played with several local Caribbean bands and then expanded his musical talent to songwriting. Jill Lesh introduced Phil to Andrew. Phil listened to a few songs and asked if he could play around with 'If the Shoe Fits,' which was originally entitled 'Give It Up.'"

OK.  Now I'm convinced Healy got a cake on on his way out

lazy river road is one of the only good songs out of all of those latter ones. they're pretty terrible.

How in God's name do those drivel lyrics have anything to do with Dan Healy?

Or with anything at all?

I swear, the one thing that always looks the same is the expression on a songwriters face when asked what the lyrics of a song are "about".

It's obvious that they almost never really know, but they don't want to admit that because everyone else is certain that the words MEAN something.

Anyway, those lyrics are bad (right up there with Days Between bad) they likely don't mean a damn thing and that version of the song in the OP is brutal.

I was at that show but fortunately I wasn't in the bowl when they played that one, or I almost certainly wouldn't have stuck around for the later part of the show, which I remember enjoying.

So Many Roads was really good every time I saw it.  While I didn't care much for Eternity or Easy Answers at first, those songs got better as the band developed the jams.  Long Way To Go Home was played too often, but isn't a bad song, and was much more akin with the Dead's repertoire than Vince's other contribution, Samba In The Rain.  I hated that song more than Phil's underwhelming trio.

I liked jerrys midi work in Samba

..it also kinda sounds like phish song 'Foam'

I also liked Vinnie singing All Too Much

If you told me Sundog GGG wrote those lyrics I'd believe you.

Anyway, those lyrics are bad (right up there with Days Between bad) <<<<

You have one chance to take back this comment Lance. 

it's ok, i don't like the song either lance.

middle school poetry class lyrics. pretty cheesy. Did Phil really write that?

Of the last batch of new GD songs I thought LRR, SMR, and Days worked the best.

>>>How in God's name do those drivel lyrics have anything to do with Dan Healy?

Not to continue the rumor, it was If the Shoe fits as identified above, not Childhoods End.  I'm not familiar with Andrew Charles.  

IF THE SHOE FITS

Lyrics By:

Andrew Charles

Music By:

Phil Lesh

Will your high hopes get you there
Goal so far and yet so near
You can't ignore the writing on the wall
Every time you rise you fall
End's nowhere in sight at all
Why should you pick it up and try again

Give it up, 'cause you can't win
Let it go while you still can
Gave it all you had, now you're feelin' bad
So you're gone, ready to roam
You come on so strong with that same sad song
Wherever you go
Run along, take your ball and go home

Promised yet another chance
Forbidden just a single glance
So much rides on what you say and do
Discarded truths and famous myths
Tales that life deceives you with
Certain things you always thought you knew

Helpful hands that pull you down (note 1)
Smaller minds turn you around
Friends in need are never really true
So why should you put trust in this
The bridge above the dark abyss
You never learned you can't make all the rules

Run along, take your ball and go home
Take a hike, we ain't got all night
Take your ball, get out my house, go home

So Many Roads is excellent and Days grew on me.