Have no idea what this is about. Death and the loss of a loved one apparently, but I don't know. This is one of the few songs Robert Hunter wrote for the Dead which do not have at least one of the members of the performing ban (usually Garcia, Weir, and/or Lesh) as a co-author, meaning it's completely a Hunter opus. Has a definite melancholy C & W feel to it. Even the Annotated Dead Lyrics project started by David Dodd out of U.C. Santa Cruz has no annotations on this one. Has Hunter ever discussed what the song means to him? If not, why has no one ever asked him?
Have no idea what this is about. Death and the loss of a loved one apparently, but I don't know. This is one of the few songs Robert Hunter wrote for the Dead which do not have at least one of the members of the performing ban (usually Garcia, Weir, and/or Lesh) as a co-author, meaning it's completely a Hunter opus. Has a definite melancholy C & W feel to it. Even the Annotated Dead Lyrics project started by David Dodd out of U.C. Santa Cruz has no annotations on this one. Has Hunter ever discussed what the song means to him? If not, why has no one ever asked him?