Stella Blue Lyrics

Lyric discussion by boxofrain 

Cover art for Stella Blue lyrics by Grateful Dead

It's in resonance to the stella guitar, Blue=depression, Which is where the speaker seems to be coming from... Seeing that "A broken angel sings from a guitar", "Dust off those rusty strings just one more time..." However, Stella Blue Sounds like the name of a woman or nickname in contrast to being a metaphor of this beautiful song, and plus Hunter had a strong use of womens names in his songs. But

Blue also relaxes the mind, and after all that treatment people begin to feel depressed...

--and the stellas sounded better than they should've and the shape of the guitar is feminine.

But then it talks about "it seems like all this life was just a dream" so this turns into something as if... talking of illusion, shadow and story.