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South of Market in the land of ruin
You'll find all manner of action,
Get your tinsel tigers in The Metal Room,
Stalking satisfaction.
They got 'em packaged up for love and money
Tattooed tots, chrome spike bunnies
I bought my mirrored shades, I'm ready to see
Roll with it, gonna roll with it, honey
But I got a felling
Like when big things collide
Like the crack before the thunder
Like I really ought to hide.
Here comes metal Angel
She looks ready to ride.
What's that she's trying to show me?
What's that she's trying to show me?
Picasso moon, shattered light
Diamond bullets ripping up the night
Picasso moon, liberate me, yeah.
I like skippin' with diversity.
Great Amazing Majesty.
And its bigger than a drive-in movie ooh-eee.
Bigger than a drive-in movie ooh-eee.
Hangin' ten out on space and time,
Redefining distance.
The next skull on your necklace is mine.
Cheap for such assistance.
I had a job trading hits for pieces
We'd make wrinkles advertise them as creases
Please find my resignation enclosed
Roll with it, come on, lets roll in it honey.
But Dark Angel what's botherin' you,
So strange you doin' all that you do.
Dark Angel your makin' me blue.
I guess it doesn't matter.
I guees it doesn't matter.
Picasso moon, blinding ball
I hear the quikening, I hear the call
Picasso Moon fills with the sky.
Amazing Blazing Mystify.
The Lunar wind I want to fly.
And its bigger than a drive-in movie, Oh my
Bigger than a drive-in movie, Oh my.
Strikes morning, the atomic dawn,
Scramble back to cover.
Quick, pop your mirrored sunglasses on,
My little leather-winged lover.
I see your face printed on my money
Your brazen ways really move me honey
Heart of darkness, yeah-yeah, hoo
Why'm I laughin' ?
This ain't funny !
Dark angel, you just don't stop,
You break my sprit, you break my heart.
You must have a licsence for practicing their art.
I don't presume to imagine,
No, I don't presume to imagine.
Picasso moon, fractal flame
Blazing lace filling every frame
Picasso Moon, wheels within wheels, yeah.
The bells are ringing, its quite unreal,
Trying to tell y'all 'bout just how it feels.
And its bigger than a drive in movie for real,
Bigger than a drive in movie for real.
Picasso moon, shattered light
Diamond bullets ripping up the night
Picasso moon, Illuminate me, yeah.
Picasso Moon, blinding ball
I feel the quickening I hear the call
Picasso moon, filled with the sky.
Picasso moon, fractal frame
Blazing lace filling every frame
Picasso moon, wheels within wheels, yeah.
Picasso moon, shining bright
The Universe will be flyin' tonight
Picasso moon Illuminate me, YEAH!
You'll find all manner of action,
Get your tinsel tigers in The Metal Room,
Stalking satisfaction.
They got 'em packaged up for love and money
Tattooed tots, chrome spike bunnies
I bought my mirrored shades, I'm ready to see
Roll with it, gonna roll with it, honey
But I got a felling
Like when big things collide
Like the crack before the thunder
Like I really ought to hide.
Here comes metal Angel
She looks ready to ride.
What's that she's trying to show me?
What's that she's trying to show me?
Picasso moon, shattered light
Diamond bullets ripping up the night
Picasso moon, liberate me, yeah.
I like skippin' with diversity.
Great Amazing Majesty.
And its bigger than a drive-in movie ooh-eee.
Bigger than a drive-in movie ooh-eee.
Hangin' ten out on space and time,
Redefining distance.
The next skull on your necklace is mine.
Cheap for such assistance.
I had a job trading hits for pieces
We'd make wrinkles advertise them as creases
Please find my resignation enclosed
Roll with it, come on, lets roll in it honey.
But Dark Angel what's botherin' you,
So strange you doin' all that you do.
Dark Angel your makin' me blue.
I guess it doesn't matter.
I guees it doesn't matter.
Picasso moon, blinding ball
I hear the quikening, I hear the call
Picasso Moon fills with the sky.
Amazing Blazing Mystify.
The Lunar wind I want to fly.
And its bigger than a drive-in movie, Oh my
Bigger than a drive-in movie, Oh my.
Strikes morning, the atomic dawn,
Scramble back to cover.
Quick, pop your mirrored sunglasses on,
My little leather-winged lover.
I see your face printed on my money
Your brazen ways really move me honey
Heart of darkness, yeah-yeah, hoo
Why'm I laughin' ?
This ain't funny !
Dark angel, you just don't stop,
You break my sprit, you break my heart.
You must have a licsence for practicing their art.
I don't presume to imagine,
No, I don't presume to imagine.
Picasso moon, fractal flame
Blazing lace filling every frame
Picasso Moon, wheels within wheels, yeah.
The bells are ringing, its quite unreal,
Trying to tell y'all 'bout just how it feels.
And its bigger than a drive in movie for real,
Bigger than a drive in movie for real.
Picasso moon, shattered light
Diamond bullets ripping up the night
Picasso moon, Illuminate me, yeah.
Picasso Moon, blinding ball
I feel the quickening I hear the call
Picasso moon, filled with the sky.
Picasso moon, fractal frame
Blazing lace filling every frame
Picasso moon, wheels within wheels, yeah.
Picasso moon, shining bright
The Universe will be flyin' tonight
Picasso moon Illuminate me, YEAH!
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this is one of my favorite dead songs. although the guitar playing in it sucks because the song was released on built to last which was not what jerry garcia was....so right before his demise. but i think its about drug dealers ripping off their customers.
"We'd make wrinkles advertise them as creases Please find my resignation enclosed Roll with it, come on, lets roll in it honey. "
Recorded in the penultimate position on 1989's "Built to Last," the Grateful Dead first performed Picasso Moon, sung by Bob Weir, at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater in Irvine, CA in April of 1989. According to The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics (http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl), the phrase 'Picasso Moon' "just popped out of Phil Lesh's mouth one day..."
The song refers to shady drug deals, which took place in the part of San Fransisco south of Market Street, a sketchy area known for junkies and dealers: "South of market in the land of ruin..."