| Grateful Dead – It Must Have Been The Roses Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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can't believe no one has even tried to show what it means, this song. let me start with it is a intimate and personal angle song, the delivery of the singing is very... crucial to what the feeling of the song is... since otherwise it may seem vague... but to me, Annie is dead and she is laid down in a bed of roses and her hair is dressed up with crimson ribbons. well chances are, you won't lay your head down in roses unless your dead since their thorns would hurt and it would be too frivolous to roll around in roses... however, while alive certainly, Annie must have expressed a vivid image that she should like to be covered in roses till she couldn't see... meaning, that is an awful lot of roses, a lot of expense, a lot of feeling being loved, a beautiful fantasy, you know, what with the lovely smell and decadence... well she looks so beautiful, the image is never going to leave...(and i assume she died some unfortunate early death, still with her beauty) nor the bond between the two... there was a vision shared between the two of them that is no longer possible with our man left alone... there may be good company from ten years out to sea, since the locals already know and dread the state of his, one pane left and neglect in his home... he is haunted with the vision of his Annie... he tells the story to new sympathetic ears, but it really is a beautiful but sad tale that doesn't ask for repeat visits... he is alone with the vision she left him with. something like that... I think it is like a mantra that is reflective of pain and the beauty of love lost. |
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