I remember a couple of years back listening to an audience recording with garcia introducing this song as his "paranoid in the streets mantra" i think its a song that recognizes the darker side of that illicit shit we all exist along side in urban life, this is a song that came out as their neighborhood was in a real decline. I think aside from the literal translation which is also valuable and interesting, this is a song at least from an imagery standpoint that speaks to me about not a hatred for the evil in our lives, but a tolerance and acceptance of that understanding. All hunter is saying is live as good of a life as you can live and keep an eye out for the consequences of your actions. A nice little comes around goes around lesson spared of the self richeous overtones... were all bad people some of us are worse than others lets try not to get killed in the process.
I remember a couple of years back listening to an audience recording with garcia introducing this song as his "paranoid in the streets mantra" i think its a song that recognizes the darker side of that illicit shit we all exist along side in urban life, this is a song that came out as their neighborhood was in a real decline. I think aside from the literal translation which is also valuable and interesting, this is a song at least from an imagery standpoint that speaks to me about not a hatred for the evil in our lives, but a tolerance and acceptance of that understanding. All hunter is saying is live as good of a life as you can live and keep an eye out for the consequences of your actions. A nice little comes around goes around lesson spared of the self richeous overtones... were all bad people some of us are worse than others lets try not to get killed in the process.