| Grateful Dead – Althea Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think Brookes is right as far as he goes above, but the song always meant more to me the more I heard it (thousands of times). I always thought of Althea as an alterego for Alethea, the Greek goddess of truth, incarnate. Not sure if anyone Althea really existed for the song to be written about, but I think the goddess Alethea makes for a great metaphor here: "Honest to the point of recklessness, self-centered to the extreme". The dialogue is that much better because she is here courted by the singer, as Brookes says. I just like the idea of personifying Truth as a beautiful but fickle woman. Not to say that my explaination is intentional (or not) but I did interpret it this way. | |
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