Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was a very popular American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, country, jazz, bluegrass, blues, gospel, and psychedelic rock. They have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide. The Grateful Dead was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area amid the rise of the counterculture of the 1960s. The founding members were Jerry Garcia (lead guitar|, vocals), Bob Weir (rhythm guitar, vocals), Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (keyboards, harmonica, vocals), Phil Lesh (bass, vocals), and Bill Kreutzmann (drums).

Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

There is a road, no simple highway between the dawn and the dark of night. And if you go no one may follow.That path is for your steps alone.

Saint Stephen will remain. All he lost he shall regain.

Quotes

Aoxomoxoa (1969)

• Saint Stephen with a rose
  In and out of the garden he goes
  Country garden in the wind and the rain
  Wherever he goes the people all complain ...
  Did he doubt or did he try?
  Answers aplenty in the bye and bye
  Talk about your plenty and talk about your ills
  One man gathers what another man spills
  Saint Stephen will remain
  All he lost he shall regain
  • St. Stephen, lyrics by band members Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, and Robert Hunter

Live/Dead (1969)

• Dark star crashes pouring its light into ashes.
  Reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis...
  Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion
  Shall we go, you and I while we can
  Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?

• • Dark Star, lyrics by Robert Hunter, on Live/Dead (1969) · Album version · 1974 performance

American Beauty (1970)

• Most of the cats that you meet on the street speak of true love
  Most of the time, they're sittin' and cryin' at home
  One of these days they know they better be goin'
  Out of the door and down to the street all alone.
  • Truckin', lyrics by band members Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, and Robert Hunter

• Truckin', like the do-dah man
  Once told me, "You've got to play your hand"
  Sometimes the cards ain't worth a dime
  If you don't lay 'em down.
  • Truckin', lyrics by band members Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, and Robert Hunter

• She come skimming through rays of violet
  She can wade in a drop of dew
  She don't come and I don't follow
  Waits backstage while I sing to you...
  She's a summer love in the spring, fall and winter
  She can make happy any man alive
  • Sugar Magnolia, lyrics by Robert Hunter and Bob Weir

• Let there be songs to fill the air.
  • Ripple, lyrics by Robert Hunter

• If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine
  And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung,
  Would you hear my voice come through the music?
  Would you hold it near as it were your own?...
  • Ripple, lyrics by Robert Hunter

• There is a road, no simple highway
  Between the dawn and the dark of night
  And if you go no one may follow
  That path is for your steps alone.
  • Ripple, lyrics by Robert Hunter

• A box of rain will ease the pain and love will see you through
  Believe it if you need it, if you don't just pass it on
  Sun and shower, wind and rain
  In and out the window like a moth before a flame
  And it's just a box of rain, I don't know who put it there
  Believe it if you need it or leave it if you dare
  And it's just a box of rain, or a ribbon for your hair
  Such a long, long time to be gone and a short time to be there.
  • Box Of Rain, composed by band members Phil Lesh and Robert Hunter,

From the Mars Hotel (1974)

• Well I ain't often right but I've never been wrong
  Seldom turns out the way it does in the song.
  Once in a while you get shown the light
  In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
  Ain't nothing wrong with the way she moves
  Scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues.
  • "Scarlet Begonias", lyrics by Robert Hunter, 1974 performance

• And there's nothing wrong with the look that's in her eyes
  • "Scarlet Begonias", lyrics by Robert Hunter, 1974 performance

• Had to learn the hard way to let her pass by, let her pass by
  • "Scarlet Begonias", lyrics by Robert Hunter, 1974 performance