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Composer: Bob Weir, John Perry Barlow

Grateful Dead - Throwing Stones lyrics



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 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 to ashes all fall down.
Now watch as the ball revolves and the nighttime calls
And again the hunt begins and again the bloodwind calls
By and by again, the morning sun will rise
But the darkness never goes from some men's eyes.
It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets
Stalking turf, dividing up meat.
Nightmare spook, piece of heat, you and me, you and me.
Click, flashblade in ghetto night. Rudies 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.
Commissars and pin-striped bosses role the dice
Any way 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, they shake their bones
While the politicians throwing stones
Singing 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, it is thusly carved in stone
The future's here, we are it, 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 this shinning ball of bule we can call our home
So the kids they dance, they shake their bones
While the politicians are throwing stones
Singing ashes, ashes all fall down.
Shipping powders back and forth
Singing "black goes south while white comes north"
And the whole world full of petty wars
Singing "I got mine and you got yours."
And the current fashions set the pace.
Lose your step, fall out of grace.
And 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 are throwing stones
So the kids they dance they shake their bones
Cause its all too clear we're on our own
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
It's dizzying, the possibilities. Ashes, Ashes all fall down
Songs list of album: Dick's Picks, Vol. 17 [live] (2000)
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01   Help on the Way lyrics   -
02    Slipknot! lyrics Add lyrics   -
03   Franklin's Tower lyrics   -
04    Walkin' Blues lyrics Add lyrics   -
05    It Must Have Been the Roses lyrics Add lyrics   -
06   Dire Wolf lyrics  
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07   Queen Jane Approximately lyrics   -
08   Tennessee Jed lyrics   -
09   The Music Never Stopped lyrics   -
10    Victim or the Crime lyrics Add lyrics   -
11   Crazy Fingers lyrics   -
12    Playing in the Band lyrics Add lyrics   -
13   Terrapin Station lyrics   -
14    Boston Clam Jam lyrics Add lyrics   -
15    Drums lyrics Add lyrics   -
16    Space lyrics Add lyrics   -
17    That Would Be Something lyrics Add lyrics   -
18    Playing in the Band lyrics Add lyrics   -
19   China Doll lyrics   -
20   Throwing Stones lyrics   -
21   Not Fade Away lyrics   -
22    The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) lyrics Add lyrics   -
23   Samson and Delilah lyrics   -
24    Eyes of the World lyrics Add lyrics   -
 

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