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  • Driving that train, high on cocaine Casey Jones you'd better watch your speed Trouble ahead, trouble behind And you know that notion just crossed my mind

    Song   Mind   Watches  
    "Casey Jones" (song) (1971)
  • The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.

    Golf   Player   Scratches  
  • ...if you get confused, just listen to the music play.

    Confused   Play   Ifs  
    "Song: "Franklin's Tower" ("Blues For Allah")". 1975.
  • I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.

    Jewels   Gold   Pay  
    Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.222, Simon and Schuster
  • Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world, but the heart has its beaches, its homeland, and thoughts of its own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings, but the heart has its seasons its evenings, and songs of its own

    Song   Beach   Morning  
    Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.202, Simon and Schuster
  • You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.

    Fall   All Alone   Ifs  
    Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.127, Simon and Schuster
  • Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.

    Spiritual   Waiting   Way  
    Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.137, Simon and Schuster
  • The sky was yellow and the sun was blue.

    Blue   Sky   Yellow  
    Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.230, Simon and Schuster
  • Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.

    Death   Garden   Dying  
  • Ain't nobody messin' with you but you

    "Song: "Althea"("Go to Heaven")". 1980.
  • Destroy yourself physically and morally and insist that all true brothers do likewise as an expression of unity.

  • Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.

    Spring   Night   Wings  
  • Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

    Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.230, Simon and Schuster
  • It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear.

    Brother   Ears   Sticks  
  • What do you want me to do, To watch for you, To see you through? A box of rain will ease the pain, and love, will see you through.

    Song   Pain   Rain  
  • But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky

    Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.351, Simon and Schuster
  • Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door.

    Doors   Worry   Looks  
    Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.102, Simon and Schuster
  • But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart

    Heart   Giving   Foolish  
    Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.338, Simon and Schuster
  • Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies.

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  • When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.

    Judging   Vote   Ready  
  • The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master

    Jobs   Light   Voice  
    Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.262, Simon and Schuster
  • Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?

    Men   Hands   Blind  
    Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.172, Simon and Schuster
  • There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you'd gladly part, With what you need to live

    Giving   Trying   Needs  
    "Song: "Built to Last" ("Built to Last ")". 1989.
  • 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?

    Sunshine   Voice   Gold  
    Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.126, Simon and Schuster
  • Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist...and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells....By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane.

    Morning   Fall   Blood  
  • Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.

    Eye   Wake Up   World  
    Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.202, Simon and Schuster
  • I don't believe there's any evidence that credit scoring is a risk factor. What is it about someone having a worse credit score that makes them a worse driver? (Insurers) can't answer that.

    Believe   Risk   Credit  
  • In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

    Pride   Light   Grace  
  • 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.

    Dark   Simple   Night  
    Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.127, Simon and Schuster
  • Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done.

    "Song: "Lady With a Fan"". 1977.
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