@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb, you know better but I know him
Like I told you, what I said, steal your face right off your head
Now he's gone, now he's gone, Lord he's gone, he's gone
Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track
He's gone, he's gone and nothin's gonna bring him back, he's gone
Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride, hot as a pistol but cool inside
Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile
Now he's gone, now he's gone, Lord he's gone, he's gone
Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track
He's gone, he's gone and nothin's gonna bring him back, he's gone
Goin' where the wind don't blow so strange
Maybe off on some high cold mountain chain
Lost one round but the price wasn't anything
A knife in the back and more of the same
Same old, rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb
You know better but I know him
Like I told you, what I said
Steal your face right off your head
He's gone, now he's gone, Lord he's gone, he's gone
Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track
He's gone, he's gone and nothin's gonna bring him back, he's gone
Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track
He's gone, he's gone and nothin's gonna bring him back, he's gone
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back (he's gone for good)
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Like I told you, what I said, steal your face right off your head
Now he's gone, now he's gone, Lord he's gone, he's gone
Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track
He's gone, he's gone and nothin's gonna bring him back, he's gone
Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride, hot as a pistol but cool inside
Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile
Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile
Now he's gone, now he's gone, Lord he's gone, he's gone
Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track
He's gone, he's gone and nothin's gonna bring him back, he's gone
Goin' where the wind don't blow so strange
Maybe off on some high cold mountain chain
Lost one round but the price wasn't anything
A knife in the back and more of the same
Same old, rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb
You know better but I know him
Like I told you, what I said
Steal your face right off your head
He's gone, now he's gone, Lord he's gone, he's gone
Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track
He's gone, he's gone and nothin's gonna bring him back, he's gone
Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track
He's gone, he's gone and nothin's gonna bring him back, he's gone
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back (he's gone for good)
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
Ooh, nothin's gonna bring him back
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He's Gone (Live in Veneta, OR, 8/27/72) Lyrics as written by Robert C. Hunter Jerome J. Garcia
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actually it was micky harts FATHER.
If you look this song up on the Annotated Grateful Dead website, by David Dodd he says
arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/gone.html
This song is about Ken Keasy...he was Bob Weirs roomate in San Francisco. He could drive a bus 50 miles an hour through San Francisco during rush hour. Skidding line. He could have 20 conversations with 20 people saved up and even after a year if he saw you, he\'d just continue on the last conversation you were having. Steal Your Face right off your head...Keasy was a TRIP, a SHAMON, an Asshole, and everyone loved him and his special powers only those touched by GOD seem have....he disappeared in the late 60s and was found in a ditch in Mexico long afterward.
@russell103 <br /> Ken Kesey died in a hospital in Oregon. Neal Cassidy died outside of San Miguel de Allende by the train tracks after attending a wedding.
@russell103 <br /> Ken Kesey died in a hospital in Oregon. Neal Cassidy died outside of San Miguel de Allende by the train tracks after attending a wedding.
"Steal your face right off of your head" refferring to the persona lsd gives you: without a face, without an ego. "he's gone" could this be refferring to jerry or someone in particular?
haha actually this song refers to Mickey harts (the drummer) uncle. His uncle was the band's manager forawhile and was in charge of all the money. After a concert his uncle dissappeared with all the dead'smoney with him. So after taht they wrote this song about it.
It cold also be about losing PigPen.
Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride, hot as a pistol but cool inside.
deffinetly not about jerry, he was still alive. maybe pigpen, but the story about mickey's dad is interesting. id like to assume that someone's wrong about the money thing and this song is more about wantin someone back just to have them back, not just to get money. but that's just cause thats what i think of the song, not cause it could ever be true.
steal your face right off your head....ever think about that in correlation to one of the grateful dead's main logos, the skull? its a faceless head, thats for sure. also, if the story above is true, then it'd be typical for the dead to turn something shitty into something so kool and longlasting. you see those dead head skulls everywhere
yeah it is called the steal your face logo for a reason haha
Yeah, Pigpen was still alive and singing. It could only be about Mickey's father's thing. Poor Mickey, got so ashamed he left the band for some time.
Yeah, Pigpen was still alive and singing. It could only be about Mickey's father's thing. Poor Mickey, got so ashamed he left the band for some time.