This is my all time favorite GD song. It is so beautiful. My fav. part of the song is this
Such a long long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.
Simply beautiful because it is so significant. That one line represents in my opinion how long you have on earth but how short it can pass by. Make it the best. I love this.
ADH: The final words of the song are very affecting, you're right. They also have a number of Biblical and old folk music precursors, warning people to appreciate what (and who) they have in this life before those things (and people) are gone: I'm a short time here, but I'm a long time gone. BTW, all the people who were writing that PL wrote this song as a tribute to his father while the latter was dying of cancer in a hospital are correct. In fact, while GD was recording this album (American Beauty), PL would visit his dad either...
ADH: The final words of the song are very affecting, you're right. They also have a number of Biblical and old folk music precursors, warning people to appreciate what (and who) they have in this life before those things (and people) are gone: I'm a short time here, but I'm a long time gone. BTW, all the people who were writing that PL wrote this song as a tribute to his father while the latter was dying of cancer in a hospital are correct. In fact, while GD was recording this album (American Beauty), PL would visit his dad either on the way to or back from the studio. It's true Hunter wrote most of the lyrics, but the idea was PL's, and referred to his feelings for his dying dad. The performing members of GD may sing lyrics that are largely written by either Hunter or Barlow, but they are not just automatons; their own lives, thoughts, feelings, etc. went into the songs (not just the melodies; the lyrics as well) and Hunter and Barlow took that into account in the writing.
As for the song being about acid, I'm afraid you're wrong, kemosabe. The GD certainly had a number of songs referring to the LSD experience (China Cat Sunflower, Dark Star, (That's It For) The Other One, etc.), but this one (BOR) is not specifically one of them.
Before I knew about PL's father, etc., I always thought the song was a bit of 1970 (post-hippie) nostalgia for 1965-66, before the positive vibe of the Haight-Ashbury scene was ruined by opportunists, scumbags, bad drugs, and Manson-type sociopaths preying on the innocents. By that time the Dead had long since abandoned their communal house at 710 Ashbury St. in the Haight and were living suburban upper-bourgeois existences in Marin County, but still pining for the original sense of community of four to five years earlier that they knew they could never get back.
This is my all time favorite GD song. It is so beautiful. My fav. part of the song is this
Such a long long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.
Simply beautiful because it is so significant. That one line represents in my opinion how long you have on earth but how short it can pass by. Make it the best. I love this.
ADH: The final words of the song are very affecting, you're right. They also have a number of Biblical and old folk music precursors, warning people to appreciate what (and who) they have in this life before those things (and people) are gone: I'm a short time here, but I'm a long time gone. BTW, all the people who were writing that PL wrote this song as a tribute to his father while the latter was dying of cancer in a hospital are correct. In fact, while GD was recording this album (American Beauty), PL would visit his dad either...
ADH: The final words of the song are very affecting, you're right. They also have a number of Biblical and old folk music precursors, warning people to appreciate what (and who) they have in this life before those things (and people) are gone: I'm a short time here, but I'm a long time gone. BTW, all the people who were writing that PL wrote this song as a tribute to his father while the latter was dying of cancer in a hospital are correct. In fact, while GD was recording this album (American Beauty), PL would visit his dad either on the way to or back from the studio. It's true Hunter wrote most of the lyrics, but the idea was PL's, and referred to his feelings for his dying dad. The performing members of GD may sing lyrics that are largely written by either Hunter or Barlow, but they are not just automatons; their own lives, thoughts, feelings, etc. went into the songs (not just the melodies; the lyrics as well) and Hunter and Barlow took that into account in the writing.
As for the song being about acid, I'm afraid you're wrong, kemosabe. The GD certainly had a number of songs referring to the LSD experience (China Cat Sunflower, Dark Star, (That's It For) The Other One, etc.), but this one (BOR) is not specifically one of them.
Before I knew about PL's father, etc., I always thought the song was a bit of 1970 (post-hippie) nostalgia for 1965-66, before the positive vibe of the Haight-Ashbury scene was ruined by opportunists, scumbags, bad drugs, and Manson-type sociopaths preying on the innocents. By that time the Dead had long since abandoned their communal house at 710 Ashbury St. in the Haight and were living suburban upper-bourgeois existences in Marin County, but still pining for the original sense of community of four to five years earlier that they knew they could never get back.