Franklin's Tower Lyrics

Lyric discussion by azmdtg 

Cover art for Franklin's Tower lyrics by Grateful Dead

I think you guys are trying to read too much into this. While he could indeed have implied some of the things mentioned, it is more basic. "Roll away the dew" is a message to shake off your sloth and wake up, quit lying down in the grass collecting dew. "Another times forgotten space", is referring to when you were alive in the womb about to be born into the current "reality". And the best lyric of all, "if you plant ice, you're going to harvest wind", is simply what is stated: ice is a cold substance that melts away and leaves nothing. If you don't plant the seeds of love in your life, you harvest wind.

Exactly. The tower represents inspiration. But once you gain it from the tower, then take a seed, because "Wildflower seed on the sand and wind" doesn't grow here. May the four winds blow you home again.", ...take the inspiration and go home where love lies: to grow your inspiration/freedom into something. In Franklin's tower the four winds sleep Like four lean hounds the lighthouse keep Wildflower seed on the sand and wind May the four winds blow you home again. Lean hounds: Inspiration, magic, freedom is guarded here at the lighthouse, nothing grows in sand or stone, may you come and get it, take it,...

I like both these ideas, for me so many of Hunters words are evocative of a mood, feeling or an idea.

What always comes to my mind in Frankilns is rebirth, as in shake off your habits that are holding you back, keeping you stuck and keeping you from growing into the beautiful powerful force for love that I believe we are all born capable of. So easy for me to get distracted in the mundane or petty.

I'll stop short of tying this into a religious relate ! The idea for me is pay attention to growing your own...