Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Scarlet Begoinias"

“Once in a while, you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right”


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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Ripple"

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“Reach out your hand if your cup be empty
If your cup is full, may it be again
Let it be known there is a fountain
That was not made by the hands of men”


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Musical Worldview: Bob Weir, 'Black-Throated Wind'

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

“What's to be found, racing around
You carry your pain wherever you go
Full of the blues and trying to lose
You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know

So I give you my eyes, and all of their lies
Please help them to learn as well as to see
Capture a glance and make it a dance
Of looking at you looking at me”


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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Help On The Way"

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“Without love in the dream it'll never come true”


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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Throwing Stones"

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“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
A peaceful place, or so it looks from space
A closer look reveals the human race
Full of hope, full of grace, is the human face
But afraid we may lay our home to waste

There's a fear down here we can't forget
Hasn't got a name just yet
Always awake, always around
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down

Now watch as the ball revolves and the night-time falls
And again the hunt begins and again the blood wind calls
By and by, again, the morning sun will rise
But the darkness never goes from some men's eyes
(Well I know)
It strolls the sidewalk and it rolls the streets
Staking turf, dividing up meat
Nightmare spook, piece of heat
It's you and me, you and me

Click flash blade in ghetto night
Rudy's looking for a fight
Rat cat alley, roll them bones
Need that cash to feed that Jones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down

Commissars and pinstripe bosses roll the dice
Anyway they fall, guess who gets to pay the price?
Money green, or proletarian gray
Selling guns instead of food today
So the kids they dance and shake their bones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down

Heartless powers try to tell us what to think
If the spirit's sleeping then the flesh is ink
History's page will be neatly carved in stone
The future's here, we are it, we are on our own
On our own, on our own, we are on our own

If the game is lost, then we're all the same
No one left to place or take the blame
We will leave this place an empty stone
Or that shining ball of blue we call our home

So the kids, they dance, they shake their bones
And the politicians throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down

Shipping powders back and forth
Singing black goes south and white comes north
And the whole world full of petty wars
Singing I got mine and you got yours
While the current fashions set the pace
Lose your step, fall out of grace
The radical, he rant and rage
Singing someone got to turn the page
And the rich man in his summer home
Singing just leave well enough alone
But his pants are down, his cover's blown
And the politicians throwing stones
So the kids, they dance, they shake their bones
'Cause it's all too clear we're on our own
Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
Ashes, ashes, all fall down

Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
It's dizzying, the possibilities

Ashes, ashes, all fall down”


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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Days Between"

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“There were days
And there were days
And there were days I know
When all we ever wanted
Was to learn and love and grow”



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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, 'Greatest Story Ever Told'

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“Ask him for water, he poured me some wine”




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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Ramble On Rose"

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“The grass ain't greener
The wine ain't sweeter
Either side of the hill”






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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Casey Jones"

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“Trouble with you
Is the trouble with me
Got two good eyes
But you still don't see”





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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Althea"

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“Ain't nobody messin' with you but you”




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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Box Of Rain"

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“ love will see you through”







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Musical Worldview Project Playlist 01

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As the Musical Worldview Project (finding wisdom in lyrics) hits 100 entries, what better way to celebrate than an hour-long playlist of hand-picked Holiday At The Sea Musical Worldview Project family favorites.

Sit back, relax, and let the music take your mind (and encourage you to think about what kind of world you’d like to see and what kind of person you’d like to become to make that world a reality).

We’re all in this together.

Keep on keepin’ on.


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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Uncle John's Band"

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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 know your mind
Woah-oh, what I want to know,
is are you kind?”


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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Playing In The Band"

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“Some folks trust to reason
Others trust in might . . .

Say it once again now
Oh I hope you understand
When it's done and over
Lord, a man is just a man

Some folks look for answers
Others look for fights
Some folks climb the treetops
Just looking for their kites

. . . If a man among you
Got no sin upon his hand,
Let him cast a stone at me
For playing in the band . . . “

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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "New Speedway Boogie"

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“One way or another, one way or another,
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
One way or another, one way or another,
One way or another, this darkness got to give.
One way or another, one way or another,
One way or another, this darkness got to give.”

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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Truckin'"

“Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me,
Other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been.”

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