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

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed 1965 in Palo Alto, California.

Quotes

• 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?

It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken,

Perhaps they're better left unsung.

I don't know, don't really care

Let there be songs to fill the air.

• Ripple 1970 album American Beauty

• A box of rain will ease the pain and love will see you through

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

Sun and shower, wind and rain

In and out the window like a moth before a flame

And it's just a box of rain, I don't know who put it there

Believe it if you need it or leave it if you dare

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

• Box Of Rain 1970 album American Beauty

• Dark star crashes pouring

its light into ashes... Reason

tatters... the forces tear

loose from the axis...

Searchlight casting for

faults in the clouds of

delusion...... shall we go

you and I while we can...

through the transitive

nightfall of diamonds? ...... Mirror shatters in

formless reflections of matter... Glass hand

dissolving to ice petal flowers revolving... Lady in

velvet recedes in the nights of goodbye...... shall

we go, you and I, while we can... through the

transitive nightfall of diamonds......

• "Dark Star", lyrics by Robert Hunter, on Live/Dead (1969) · Album version · 1974 performance

• Well I ain't often right but I've never been wrong,
  Seldom turns out the way it does in the song.
  Once in a while you get shown the light
  In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
  • "Scarlet Begonias", lyrics by Robert Hunter, From the Mars Hotel (1974) ·1974 performance

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