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I diagrammed this song at one point. The lyrics are from Robert Hunter not Jerry Garcia who wrote the music.
i think Garcia came to Hunter with the tune and then Hunter began writing the lyrics.
He had a fragment of a verse he had written before and used it here.
It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken Perhaps they're better left unsung I don't know, don't really care Let there be songs to fill the air
The previous verse is the hand me down. And he doesn't remember what they were meant for. But that is OK.
Because what is important is the music, not the forgotten meaning of the previous verse.
In other words he was melding the lyrics from a previous song or poem unto this song.
With beautiful results
I diagrammed this song at one point. The lyrics are from Robert Hunter not Jerry Garcia who wrote the music.
i think Garcia came to Hunter with the tune and then Hunter began writing the lyrics.
He had a fragment of a verse he had written before and used it here.
It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken Perhaps they're better left unsung I don't know, don't really care Let there be songs to fill the air
The previous verse is the hand me down. And he doesn't remember what they were meant for. But that is OK.
Because what is important is the music, not the forgotten meaning of the previous verse.
In other words he was melding the lyrics from a previous song or poem unto this song.
With beautiful results