Conference rdvax::grateful

    
    "i will not forgive you, if you will not take the chance..."
    
    					da ve

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

	there's so many single lines.
	this is probably my favorite verse:
	
	Lady finger, dipped in moonlight,
        Writing, "What for?" across the morning sky.
        Sunlight splatters, dawn with answers.
        Darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye.
        Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow,
        What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned.
        Sev'ral seasons  with their treasons,
        Wrap the babe in scarlet colors, call it your own.

	

    Just one lyric?  Most days, this one get me through:
    
    Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe
    
    

    can't do this one....it changes for me everyday, but...
    
    Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe
    
    
    also
    
    His Job is to shed lite and not to master...

	see, i can't stop at just one line ...
	
	this:
    Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe
	is unattachable from:
don't give it up, got an empty cup     only love can fill
	
	;-)
	

    clank your chains, count your change..and try to walk the line

    It all rolls into one and nothing comes for free,
    There's nothing you can hold for very long.
    And when you hear that song come crying like the wind,
    It seems like all this life was just a dream.

    1 line?  hmm, that's tuff, like a fave Beatle or Genesis toon or line
    but, a sentimental one, and always brings a smile to my face...
    
    "I'm having a hard time, living the good life"
    
    Wes

    
    
>    In the attics of my life, full of cloudy dreams unreal.
>    Full of tastes no tongue can know, and lights no eyes can see.
>    When there was no ear to hear, you sang to me.
    

    boy I can see this note digressing from the orig "one line" rule *FAST*! 
    
                                   %^)
    
    
    rfb

    re. .8
    
    ouch...
    
    and in the end, there's just a song....
    
    
    rfb

The wheel is turning and you can't slow down,
you can't let go and you can't hold on,
you can't go back and you can't stand still,
if the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.


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.

    re .9
    
    isn't that "high time" livin' the good life?

    re "High Time" I thought it alternated between high time and hard
    time, and a check of the lyrix says both...it alternates...
    
    believe it if you need it

I couldn't possibly come up with my one favorite lyrical phrase, but
I use the following from UJB often:

    When life looks like easy street, there's danger at your door

/Ken

    
    "Its a hand me down, the thoughts are broken.  Perhaps they're better
    left unsaid; I don't know, don't really care, let there be song to fill
    the air."
    

    
    God save the child who rings that bell
    It may have one good ring baby you can't tell
    One watch by night, one watch by day
    If you get confused listen to the music play
                

    
    "Believe it if you need it, if you don't just pass it on"
    
    Cath

Someone once said that for every question there is an answer in the lyrics 
of the Grateful Dead.

Jim

    
    Mine is:
    
    "Let's get down and dirty baby"
    
    
    :-) :-) :^0
    
    
    Actually, today it's:
    
    "I guess it doesn't matter...anyway"  Morning Dew

	Lady Fingers Dipped in Moonlight.....  all time Fav

	We don't own this world but we act as if we did...   Fav Brent

	but the one that sticks the most lately...


	Nothings gonna bring him back  8-(


	Toby

    
    	When I had no wings to fly, you flew to me.
    

    attics of my life 
    
    and the rest of it 

    If the thunder don't getcha, then the lightning will

	You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know

    
       i'll get up to fly away!
                         

    
    
    "Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings..."
    
    	Thank you, Robert Hunter, for so many, many, endorphin-releasing
    warm-fuzzy moments in my life.... (and Jerry too, of course...)
    
    :^)
    
    -chuck                                      

    This one's totally obvious, and not nearly as poetic as some of the
    other fine entries here, but a week doesn't pass where I don't think
    to myself...
    
    	"what a long, strange trip it's been"
    

    .28  me also.

       
    
     Now he's gone, now he's gone Lord he's gone, he's gone.
            
    
                                                               

    favorite? God, I still get the willies when I hear HE's GOne....

especially   "and nothing's gonna bring him back.  He's gone."

I only want to hold you,
I don't want to tie you down,
Or fence you in the lines
I might have drawn.
It's just that I--
I've gotten used to having you around
My landscape would be empty
If you were gone.
.
.
.
But I'll still sing you love songs,
Written in the letters of your name,
And pray the storm to come,
For it surely looks like rain.
 

	And brave the storm that comes
	for it surely looks like rain

  Yeah, notice how "Looks Like Rain" shows up in both Best and Worst lyrics
  ("street cats makin' lo-o-o-ve...", topic 511).

  That's pretty much how I feel about it.   8)    - JayC


    [Sorry to say, don't think I can make the taping party -- have a 1-on-1
    with one of my kids this weekend, and he has big plans for my time...
    Too bad.  It'd be fun to see how I'd fit in, considering how much
    *unrelenting grief* I get from a couple of long-term deadhead buddies.

    "Yeah yeah, I know I don't have to try the segueway 7 times to get it
    perfect -- I just wanna!"  <y'all>  "Let's sedate him and shut him
    up..."  <me>  "uh, sure"  ...]

Yeah, surprising how Bobby can combine the good with the awful.

The line, "I'll still sing you love songs/written in the letters
of your name" was always a favorite, though...

tim

	fwiw, i like the verse "have you ever waken to the sound"
	but the, i like the whole song.
	when it come time to do a best of bobby tape(tm) 
	i'll nominate this song   ;-)   ;-)
	(i can hear leblanc grunting ;-)