Box Of Rain Lyrics

Lyric discussion by fikus 

Cover art for Box Of Rain lyrics by Grateful Dead

i guess phil wrote this when riding in a car to see his father fo the last time... sad song:(

You are exactly right. If you search YouTube for "Box of Rain Grateful Dead Interview", the fellas talk exactly about this!

I find it difficult to believe that they said this "exactly," since Robert Hunter, not Phil Lesh, wrote the lyrics.

Man, yous are messin' it up for me. The first time I heard that Phil Lesh wrote this for his father while he was on his death bed I thought it was absolutely the most powerfully beautiful thing I'd ever heard. I didn't find it sad at all. It makes sense to me. And I love it. Beautiful. So I'm stickin' with that explanation.