That's It For The Other One Lyrics

Lyric discussion by goodeadhead 

Cover art for That's It For The Other One lyrics by Grateful Dead

This song is talking Ken Kesey and his Merry Prankster's trip from california to new york in '64. Neal Cassady drove the famous "Further" bus, which was painted in swirls of day-glo paint and contained a cooler of orange juice laced with LSD. The trip is documented in Tom Wolfe's book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test."

It's about Furthur. The Lyrics state it obviously.

"Escapin' through the lily fields I came across an empty space, It trembled and exploded, left a bus stop in it's place. The bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began, There was cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus to never ever land."

To be "on the bus" was the way they said people were on the same mental wavelength they were. Furthur, the bus, was mostly driven by Neil Cassady "Cowboy Neil".