 Genius Meanings
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The Grateful Dead – Me and My Uncle
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According to a 1995 interview with John Phillips, the song’s writer, he wrote it without even remembering that he did:
There was a party after a concert in Phoenix, Arizona, and
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The Grateful Dead – Me and My Uncle Live Versions
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See all of “Me and My Uncle” by The Grateful Dead’s live versions
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The Grateful Dead – Uncle John's Band
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“Uncle John’s Band” is a collection of fragmented images within a storehouse of the American consciousness during the final year of a decade that now serves as a metaphor, the 1960
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The Grateful Dead – Me and Bobby McGee
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[Verse 1] / Busted flat in baton rouge, waiting for a train / Feeling nearly faded as my jeans / Bobby flagged a diesel down, just before it rained / Took us all the way to New
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The Grateful Dead – Wharf Rat (Live at Denver Coliseum, Denver, CO, November 21, 1973)
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[Verse 1] / Old man down / Way down down, down by the docks of the city / Blind and dirty / Asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee / I got no dime but I got some time to
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The Grateful Dead – Playing in the Band (Part 3) (Live at Denver Coliseum, Denver, CO, November 21, 1973)
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[Instrumental] / [Chorus] / Playing / Playing in the band / Daybreak / Daybreak on the land / Playing / Playing in the band / Daybreak / Daybreak on the land / Playing / Like a
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The Grateful Dead – Playing in the Band
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Playing in the Band is the fourth song on the Grateful Dead’s self-titled 1971 double-live album.
The song made its live debut on February 18th, 1971 and was kept in regular
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The Grateful Dead – Cryptical Envelopment
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The other day they waited, the sky was dark and faded / Solemnly they stated, "He has to die, you know he has to die" / All the children learnin', from books that they were burnin
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The Grateful Dead – Sing Me Back Home
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The warden led the prisoner down the hallway to his doom / I stood up to say goodbye like all the rest / And I heard him tell the warden just before they reached my cell / Let my
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The Grateful Dead – U.S. Blues
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“U.S. Blues” is a reflection of the political atmosphere in 1974, in which the specter of a modern-day presidential impeachment was no longer a fantasy, but an emerging reality.
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The Grateful Dead – They Love Each Other (Live at Denver Coliseum, Denver, CO, November 21, 1973)
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[Verse 1] / Merry run around, sailin' up and down / Looking for a shove in some direction / Got it from the top, it's nothing you can stop / Lord, you know they made a fine
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The Grateful Dead – It's All Over Now (Live at Winterland, SF, December 31, 1978)
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[Verse 1] / Well now, baby used to stay out all night long / Made me cry, Lord she done me wrong / Hurt my eyes open, baby, that's no lie / Tables turnin', now it's her turn to cry
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The Grateful Dead – Tennessee Jed
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Tennessee Jed was the title character of a radio show that ran from 1945 to 1947. “Jed” – the Dead song – was the result of an inebriated night in Barcelona. It is the musical
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The Grateful Dead – Not Fade Away
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[Verse 1] / I want to tell you how it's going to be / You're going to give your love to me / I want to love you night and day / You know my love will not fade away / You know my
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The Grateful Dead – Cumberland Blues
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[Verse] / I can't stay much longer, Melinda, the sun is getting high / I can't help you with your troubles, if you won't help with mine / I gotta get down, I gotta get down, I
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The Grateful Dead – Comes a Time (Live at Richmond Coliseum, Richmond, VA, November 1, 1985)
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[Chorus] / Comes a time when the blind man takes your hand, says "Don't you see? / Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe." / Don't give it up, you got an empty cup
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The Grateful Dead – Big Boss Man
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[Verse] / Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? / Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? / You ain't so big, you just tall, that's just about all / You got me working
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The Grateful Dead – Wharf Rat
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[Verse] / Old man down, way down down, down by the docks of the city / Blind and dirty, asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee / I got no dime but I got some time to hear
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The Grateful Dead – Big Boss Man
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[Verse] / Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? / Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? / You ain't so big, you just tall, that's just about all / You got me working
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The Grateful Dead – Bertha
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One from the Dead’s repertoire which never really made it in the studio, Bertha is a favorite at shows. The eponymous “Bertha” has been rumored to be a big floor fan that was
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The Strokes – Meet Me in the Bathroom
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[Verse 1] / When they say promises, they mean promises / They'd say, "That's okay, long as we can celebrate" / [Pre-Chorus] / You see, my uncle would say / Things would change when
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The Grateful Dead – The Race Is On
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[Verse 1] / I feel tears welling up from down deep inside / Like my heart's got a big break / And a stab of loneliness sharp and painful that I may never shake / You might think
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The Grateful Dead – Loser (Live at Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO, December 10, 1971)
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[Verse 1] / If I had a gun for every ace I have drawn / I could arm a town the size of Abilene / Don't you push me, baby, 'cause I'm moaning low / And you know I'm only in it for
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The Grateful Dead – Bertha (Live at Wembley Empire Pool, London, April 8, 1972)
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[Intro] / If any of you got any plans and couldn't come tonight 'cause it was sold out, on May the 16th on Radio Luxemborg, we're gonna do a, a concert for about three hours, so I
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The Grateful Dead – Little Red Rooster
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I'm a little red rooster, too lazy to crow for days / Just a little red rooster, too lazy to crow for days / Keep everything in the barnyard people, upset in every way / Dogs begin
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The Grateful Dead – The Other One
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / Spanish lady come to me, she lays on me this rose / It rainbow spirals round and round, it trembles and explodes / It left a smoking crater of my
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The Grateful Dead – Bertha (Live at Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, February 18, 1971)
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[Intro] / Are we ready? / [Verse 1] / I had a hard run / Running from your window / I was all night running / I wonder if you care / I had a run-in / Run around and run down / Run
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The Grateful Dead – Truckin' - Live at Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis (Live Broadcast)
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Truckin' got my chips cashed in / Keep truckin' like the doodah man / Together, more or less in line / Just keep truckin' on / Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main
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The Grateful Dead – Terrapin Station (Live at Barton Hall, Cornell University, May 7, 1980)
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[Lady with a Fan] / [Verse 1] / Let my inspiration flow / In token rhyme suggesting rhythm / That will not forsake me / 'Til my tale is told and done / While the firelight's aglow
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The Grateful Dead – Feel Like a Stranger (Live at Recreation Hall, Penn State University, May 6, 1980)
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[Verse 1] / Inside you're burning / I can see clear through / Your eyes tell more than you mean them to / Lit up and flashing / Like the reds and blues / Shining out on the neon
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Judy Collins – Me and My Uncle
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[Verse 1] / Me and my uncle went riding down / From Colorado, West Texas bound / And we stopped off in Santa Fe / It being the point, about half-way / And besides it was the
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The Grateful Dead – Uncle John's Band (Live)
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Well the first days are the hardest days / Don't you worry any more / 'Cause when life looks like Easy Street / There is danger at your door / Think this through with me / Let me
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The Grateful Dead – Not Fade Away / Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad
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I wanna tell you how it's gonna be / You're gonna give your love to me / I wanna love you night and day / You know my love not fade away / You know my love not fade away / Not fade
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The Grateful Dead – Throwing Stones (Live at Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, VA, October 9, 1989)
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[Verse 1] / Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free / Dizzy with eternity / Paint it with a skin of sky / Brush in some clouds and sea / Call it home for you and me
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The Grateful Dead – Hard to Handle
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[Verse 1] / Baby, here I am and I'm a man upon the scene / I can give you what you want, but you got to come home with me / I got a whole lot of good ole loving and I got some in
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The Grateful Dead – I'm a King Bee
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I'm a king bee baby, buzzing around your hive / I'm a king bee baby, buzzing around your hive / Yeah I can make honey baby, let me come inside / Well I'm a king bee, want you to be
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The Grateful Dead – I'm a Hog for You
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[Chorus] / I'm a hog for you, baby / Can't get enough of your love / I'm a hog for you, baby / Can't get enough of your love / When I go to sleep at night / That's the only thing I
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The Grateful Dead – Overseas Stomp (The Lindy)
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I know they're gonna run to me / When they get across the sea / Every chance to win when Washington lands in France / All safe for now sugar baby / Oh mama don't you weep and moan
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