Grateful Dead - Throwing Stones - Live Lyrics

Lyrics Throwing Stones - Live - Grateful Dead



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 nighttime falls
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 mens eyes (oh no)
It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets
It's taking turf, dividing up meat
Nightmare spook, piece of heat
It's you and me,
You and me
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
(Ashes, ashes all fall down)
Commissars and pin-striped bosses roll the dice
Any way they fall, guess who gets to pay the price
Money green, the 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
(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! 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
Oh that shinning ball
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
(Ashes, ashes all fall down)
Shooting 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 throwing stones
So the kids they dance they shake their bones
Cause its all too clear were 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
(Ashes, ashes all fall down)



Writer(s): John Barlow, Robert Weir


Grateful Dead - Complete Live Rarities Collection
Album Complete Live Rarities Collection
date of release
26-07-2013

1 Viola Lee Blues (Live In San Francisco 1966)
2 Don't Ease Me In (Live In San Francisco 1966)
3 Pain In My Heart (Live In San Francisco 1966)
4 Sitting On Top of the World (Live In San Francisco 1966)
5 It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Live In San Francisco 1966)
6 I'm a King Bee (Live In San Francisco 1966)
7 Big Boss Man (Live In San Francisco 1966)
8 Standing On the Corner (Live In San Francisco 1966)
9 In the Pines (Live In San Francisco 1966)
10 Nobody's Fault But Mine (Live In San Francisco 1966)
11 Next Time You See Me (Live In San Francisco 1966)
12 One Kind Favor (Live In San Francisco 1966)
13 He Was a Friend of Mine (Live In San Francisco 1966)
14 Keep Rolling By (Live In San Francisco 1966)
15 Viola Lee Blues (Live)
16 Alligator (Live In Los Angeles)
17 Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) [Live In Los Angeles 1968]
18 Feedback (Live In Los Angeles 1968)
19 Cosmic Charlie (Live at the Avalon, San Francisco 1969)
20 Dire Wolf (Live at Veteran's Hall, Santa Rosa, CA 1969)
21 Black Peter (Live at Golden Hall, San Diego 1970)
22 Easy Wind (Live at Springer's Ballroom, Portland, OR 1970)
23 Cumberland Blues (Live at Oregon State University 1970)
24 Mason's Children [Live at The Civic Auditorium, Honolulu, HI, 1970]
25 Uncle John's Band (Live at Winterland, San Francisco 1970)
26 Friend of the Devil (Live at Winterland, San Francisco 1970)
27 Candyman (Live at Winterland, San Francisco 1970)
28 Till the Morning Comes (Live at Winterland, San Francisco 1970)
29 Attics of My Life (Live Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA 1970)
30 Truckin' (Live In El Monte, CA 1970)
31 Oh! Boy (Live Manhattan Center, New York, NY, April 6, 1971)
32 I'm a Hog for You (Live Manhattan Center, New York, NY, April 6, 1971)
33 The Stranger (Live In Germany 1972)
34 Looks Like Rain (Live In London 1972)
35 Good Lovin' (Live In Denmark 1972)
36 Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) [Live In Denmark 1972]
37 Who Do You Love? (Live In Denmark 1972)
38 Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) [Live In Denmark 1972 Version 2]
39 Good Lovin' - Live In Denmark 1972 Version 2
40 Good Lovin' (Live Fillmore East, New York 1970)
41 Big Boss Man (Live Fillmore West, San Francisco 1970)
42 Smokestack Lightnin' (Live Version 2)
43 Sitting On Top of the World (Live Fillmore West, San Francisco 1970)
44 Eyes Of The World [Live]
45 Scarlet Begonias - Live Winterland San Francisco, CA 10/16/74
46 Money Money - Live PNE Coliseum Vancouver, B.C. 6/23/74
47 Wave That Flag - Live Springfield Civic Center 3/28/73
48 Let It Rock - Live Jai-Alai Fronton Miami, FL 6/23/74
49 Dancin' In The Streets - Live Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 5/8/77
50 Ollin Arageed (Live Gizah Sound & Light Theater, Cairo, Egypt 9/16/78)
51 Fire On The Mountain - Live Gizah Sound & Light Theater, Cairo, Egypt 9/16/78
52 Stagger Lee - Live Gizah Sound & Light Theater, Cairo, Egypt 9/16/78
53 All New Minglewood Blues - Live Capitol Theatre, Passaic, N.J. 11/24/78
54 Althea (Live)
55 Lost Sailor (Live)
56 Saint of Circumstance (Live)
57 Iko Iko (Live Warfield, San Francisco, CA)
58 Heaven Help the Fool (Live)
59 El Paso (Live)
60 Sage & Spirit (Live)
61 Little Sadie (Live)
62 It Must Have Been The Roses - Alternate Live Version
63 Dark Hollow - Alternate Live Version
64 Jack-A-Roe - Alternate Live Version
65 Cassidy - Alternate Live Version
66 China Doll - Alternate Live Version
67 Monkey And The Engineer - Alternate Live Version
68 Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie - Alternate Live Version
69 Ripple - Alternate Live Version
70 Tom Dooley (Live)
71 Deep Elem Blues - Alternate Live Version
72 Let It Grow (Live Radio City Music Hall, New York 10/80)
73 Sugaree (Live Radio City Music Hall, New York 10/80)
74 C.C. Rider (Live Warfield, San Francisco, CA 10/80)
75 Row Jimmy (Live Warfield, San Francisco, CA 10/80)
76 Lazy Lightning (Live Warfield, San Francisco, CA 10/80)
77 Supplication (Live Warfield, San Francisco, CA 10/80)
78 High Time (Live Warfield, San Francisco, CA 10/80)
79 Jack Straw (Live Warfield, San Francisco, CA 10/80)
80 Shakedown Street (Live Warfield, San Francisco, CA 10/80)
81 Not Fade Away (Live Warfield, San Francisco, CA 10/80)
82 West L.A. Fadeaway - Alternate Version, 1984
83 Throwing Stones - Live
84 Foolish Heart - Live Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI 7/19/89
85 Blow Away (Live Philadelphia, PA 7/7/89)
86 California Earthquake (Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On) [Live Philadelphia, PA 7/7/89]




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