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from a GD song.

 

Of course it changes from day to day. This one always gives me chicken skin.

 

A scrap of age old lullaby
Down some forgotten street

If I knew the way

I would take you home

Couldn't you try just a little bit harder?  Couldn't you try just a little bit more?

 

These lines hit me like a ton of bricks while sitting watching the waves on Ocean Beach in SF one morning, thinking about relationships.

Seems like "try harder" is always the answer, painful and inconvenient as that might be. I wish it was easier, but it's not. Glad I did though, as I remember my mom on her b-day today.    

it all rolls into one
And nothing comes for free
There's nothing you can hold
For very long...

Shall we go, you and I while we can
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?

Once in a while we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if you look at it right

without love in the dream it'll never come true

Walk into splintered sunlight
Inch your way through dead dreams to another land

Now watch as the ball revolves
And the nighttime falls.
Again the hunt begins,
Again the bloodwind calls.
By and by, the morning sun will rise,
But the darkness never goes
From some men's eyes.
It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets,
Staking turf, dividing up meat.
Nightmare spook, piece of heat,
It's you and me.
You and me.

 

 

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

 

 Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men

Headlight 

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I won't slave for beggar's pay
likewise gold and jewels
but I would slave to learn the way
to sink your ship of fools

Clank your chains, 'n count your change...

too much of everything

is just enough

 

 

oh, also anytime they sing the word:

"SHINE" !!!!!!!!

So I give you my eyes, and all of their lies, please help them to learn as well as to see.

But I'll get back on my feet again someday
The good Lord willin'
If He says I may

 

I may be goin to hell in a bucket

But at least I'm enjoyin the ride

If I was the sun, I'd look for shade
If I was a bed, I would stay unmade

 

Say what I mean and I don't give a damn
I do believe and I am who I am

"There's nothing you can own for very long....." 

"You ain't got half of what you thought you had..."

See here how everything
Lead up to this day
And it's just like
Any other day
That's ever been

The obvious lyric of quality and quantity of course,

Two good eyes ,Sometimes I can barely see

^^^^^Jonesin' ?

Midnight on a carousel ride, reaching for the Gold Ring down inside.

Never could reach it, just slips away.

But I Try,,,

Better than the 12 days of Christmas!

Seven faced marble eyed transitory dream doll,
Six proud walkers on the jingle bell rainbow,
Five men writing with fingers of gold,
Four men tracking down the great white sperm whale,
Three girls waiting in a foreign dominion
Riding in the whalebelly, fade away in moonlight, Sink beneath the waters to the coral sands below.

That stripper line

Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men...

Sweet

Sweet

Jelly 's, 

So Good

^^^^^more in the presentation then written down

....that "jelly" line could sufficiently land in the "worst line" thread too 

A slow winter day, a night like forever
Sink like a stone, float like a feather

 

Flight of the seabirds, scattered like lost words
Wheel to the storm and fly.

 

You needn't gild the lily, offer jewels to the sunset
No one is watching or standing in your shoes

 

gone are the days we stopped to decide..where we should go..we just ride

There's some satisfaction in the San Francisco rain
No matter what comes down the Mission always looks the same.

If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will

If mercy's a business, I wish it for you
More than just ashes when your dreams come true

The more that you give, the more it will take
To the thin line beyond which you really can't fake.

Are you kind

Gone are the days we stopped to decide where we should go, we just ride.

GD lyrics are so encapsulating of American life and the human condition. It's why I love all GD songs and only 15 phish songs.

What's to be found, racing around
You carry your pain wherever you go
Full of the blues and trying to lose
You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know

 

 

...we could have us, a High Time, living the good life, High

"Lost one round but the prize wasn't anything."


Don't give it up
you've got an empty cup
only love can fill
only love can fill