Terrapin Station Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Squllabot 

Cover art for Terrapin Station lyrics by Grateful Dead

Well, the last time i tripped psilocybin mushrooms I talked to God, or he talked through me. He told me all that matters is what I do at this very moment. The soldier, represents my brother who is in the military. And I, the sailor, sailing the seas of consciousness. My brother is much to tough to let himself be thrown into danger, I myself love to. The storyteller is us, and God, for God moves through us all with his divine will and plan set. Gods job is to shedd light, not to master it. I see terrapin station, as the place where those who choose to have a psychedelic experience go to. Terrapin Station is the place where we realize that we are alive, breathing, thinking individuals waiting for death. Its not particularly a bad place to be, but from terrapin station you know exactly that you will die as for others who haven't tripped see this life as eternal and that this reality is all there is. There is a spiritual realm beyond this dimension where we all will return, to be one with God again. Also, on that trip I had I actually saw people, faces, entities waving and looking at me. They would sit in there place until I saw them and they say me. Terrapin Station is the place where we go, kinda like purgatory on earth, where we see all things past, present, and future as one. For we should all live in the felt presence of immidiete experience.

@Squllabot thank you for this post. while i have loved this songs since i heard it the first time, i always felt a mysterious conection between me as a person and the tekst. i have often wondered what it might be, but i didn\'t see since it\'s a very strange tekst compared to what i listens to normally. \r\n\r\nbut with this post i think i have found out. for the longest part of my life i have looked at myself as two persons in one, now i see it as one being the sailor, ready to do anything on the...