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Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf Lyrics

17 years ago

I remember a couple of years back listening to an audience recording with garcia introducing this song as his "paranoid in the streets mantra" i think its a song that recognizes the darker side of that illicit shit we all exist along side in urban life, this is a song that came out as their neighborhood was in a real decline. I think aside from the literal translation which is also valuable and interesting, this is a song at least from an imagery standpoint that speaks to me about not a hatred for the evil in our lives, but a tolerance and acceptance of that understanding. All hunter is saying is live as good of a life as you can live and keep an eye out for the consequences of your actions. A nice little comes around goes around lesson spared of the self richeous overtones... were all bad people some of us are worse than others lets try not to get killed in the process.

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Grateful Dead – Alligator Lyrics

17 years ago

The song itself is a little incoherent but its not all about the words anyways. I love during the little lalala la la bridge how you can hear bob usually going "burn down the fillamore gas the avalon" some upbeat menacing lsd drenched awesomeness. the jam that usually followed always had an awesome time signature and an even better conclusion with jerry picking out the expressions for the words in "we bid you goodnight" alligator is an excellent reflection of the scene and a real example of how individual this music was as well as being a fan favorite science its conception... thank you jerry garcia

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Phish – Tube Lyrics

17 years ago

I couldn't disagree more with that first post this song has nothing to do with television take it into context of who the song is singing to... a bunch of dosed heads who are changing themselves rapidly with chemicals, "i got an ache in my left ear, i felt a twinge but i still could hear, made me think i could not be burned, but rather give myself to science i felt that i could help" its an excuse for turning yourself into a science experiment with massive doses and if you never come back and things start looking like robert palmer and a cloud of mercury its alright because your just a sample and a statistic "its so stupendous, living in this tube"

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Oysterhead – Birthday Boys Lyrics	17 years ago
I guess the literal translation fits but i thought there was some implied endearment between the two characters in the song the way they relate to each other like they have history, reminds me of like an ex flame someone you would never need to impress that residual understanding that resonates

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Grateful Dead – Frozen Logger Song Lyrics

17 years ago

When i first started collecting bootlegs i used to listen to alot of audience recordings, auds of the dead are the best because they give you an atmosphere unlike anything that exists today, A nice little acid drenched mecca that lives on forever in the early 70s bobby huddling out and singing the logger song was just one of those little aesthetic wonders meant for to bend your mind. They also sang this right after jerry came out of a coma but that was the 80s and brent sucks.

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Phish – Dirt Lyrics	17 years ago
Alot of people suggest depression or isolation i see this song as a metaphor for addiction and the people you leave behind in the frenzy of the state your very well alive but as good as dead beneath the "dirt" street slang for heroine. beautiful song easy to relate to from unfortunate perspectives.

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Tea Leaf Green – Devil's Pay Lyrics

17 years ago

Cool song with a real provocative swagger to it. Its like a big metaphor for any illicit scene an omission of guilt and conscience saying these things were doing here are not free or without consequence lets try and save what we can, gotta keep pushing, keep that business running. its the lack of moral restraint that sort of resonates with this generation and particularly alot of these party hardy cultures the songs saying you can hold them down but they aint gonna go away were the plague were here to stay. I also love the sense of community and cooperation "The sailors hauled up trailers Beside them smoking ashes. Donated some blankets, And fixed up a box-spring mattress. Fixed up a box-spring mattress... Fixed up a box-spring mattress its saying were here as the consumers too so this thing as a business model that isnt gonna fail no matter the tribulations. I like tea leafs lyrical prowess they remind me of bob dylan alot of the way they speak deeper with imagery and convey a world in and of itself i think trevor writes their songs, there a talented little group of individuals.

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Phish – Ghost Lyrics

17 years ago

The whole tom marshals imaginary friend thing holds air but if you look at this song from a more departed less personal perspective it sounds to me like there singing about faith. its a song with alot of metaphors that meet up to spell out this bigger picture of a non material understanding in someones life that they gain support and understanding from, in my opinion this song deals with the trials and common struggles of having a higher focus within a certain theology how you can lose sight of that but the origin of that focus holds true.

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Phish – Bathtub Gin Lyrics

17 years ago

I find it interesting to hear about this song from a different perspective because i thought it had some pretty obvious connotations somebody said they thought it was about waiting for a batch of acid but i always related it to a different drug that was a large part of the commerce at the phish shows. bathtub gin in my opinion is a reference to MdMa the scene and the illegitimacy of the medium the community within the drug experience 'were all in this together' ie. my brains got just as big of a hole in it as yours kiddo its a very menacing provocative song fucking love phish the best bathtub gin is from the great went i think the date is 08-17-97 check it out on phishows.com "dont you see anything that youd like to try?"

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Phish – Catapult Lyrics	17 years ago
I kind of think that alot of phishes songs were about the scene this song is like a weird psychedelic way of saying it sucks to be dependant on drugs its always a little backwards to sing to a bunch of dosed heads about the danger of drugs and alchahol... treys alot like nancy regan fighting drugs and abortion

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