Therefore, the best part, I would hope, would not be anything in particular that I might have to say, but rather, the conversation that may happen via the comments over the course of time-and since all the posts will stay up, you can feel free to weigh in any time on any of the songs! With Grateful Dead lyrics, there’s always a new and different take on what they bring up for each listener, it seems. (I’ll consider requests for particular songs-just private message me!) Sam smith lay me down lyrics meaning free# Hunter wrote, in his foreword to The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: Well, first-wouldn’t we all like to have a day like that!Īnd, second-what unites these three lyrics, aside from the fact that they were all written on the same day? The other two were “Ripple” and “Brokedown Palace.” “To Lay Me Down” is one of the magical trio of lyrics composed in a single afternoon in 1970 in London, “over a half-bottle of retsina,” according to Robert Hunter. ”And I wrote reams of bad songs, bitching about everything under the sun, which I kept to myself: Cast not thy swines before pearls.