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nedb on Sunday, December 8, 2019 – 12:21 pm

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Has Hunter ever expanded on the meaning of the song's lyrics?

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

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Herbal Dave on Sunday, December 8, 2019 – 12:27 pm

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Hunter's original manuscript

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Surfdead on Monday, December 9, 2019 – 08:54 am

I believe it was originally a collection of short stanzas having not much to do with one another. Garcia saw them in Hunter's notebook and said "Hey, put these together and you got a song", or something like that.

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Jambone on Monday, December 9, 2019 – 08:58 am

Never saw that before^...

 

Blackmailers blues? Slip knot jig???

 

Verrrrry ineresting.....hmmm.......

 

 

Nope, still no fckn idea what he s talking about....;)

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Thom2 on Monday, December 9, 2019 – 10:27 am

Hunter rarely expands on the meaning of any of his lyrics, preferring to let the listener do it themselves.

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SeaMonster on Monday, December 9, 2019 – 11:48 am

"Beautiful Lie"

Nice

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fishcane on Monday, December 9, 2019 – 12:53 pm

The answers are all right there in the words...

wake now, discover

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ottobobotto on Monday, December 9, 2019 – 08:54 pm

I believe it was originally a collection of short stanzas having not much to do with one another. Garcia saw them in Hunter's notebook and said "Hey, put these together and you got a song", or something like that.

I think that was Crazy Fingers

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Surfdead on Tuesday, December 10, 2019 – 08:53 am

Fingers it is. Sorry.

Those two occupy adjacent spaces in my head.