Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Still "Standing on the Moon" after this past Weekend

One small detail I actually have time for about the Ekoostik Hookah show in Toledo this past weekend........

They covered "Standing on the Moon" by the Grateful Dead.

Take the time to read the lyrics. Without the music they may not bring you to tears, but with Cliff singing, my eyes were a flowing river...............



Standing on the Moon Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia
Standing on the moon, I got no cobweb on my shoe
Standing on the moon, I'm feeling so alone and blue
I see the Gulf of Mexico as tiny as a tear
The coast of California must be somewhere over here
Over here

Standing on the moon, I see the battle rage below
Standing on the moon, I see the soldiers come and go
There's a metal flag beside me someone planted long ago
Old glory standing stiffly, crimson, white and indigo
Old glory standing stiffly, crimson, white and indigo
Indigo

I see all of South East Asia; I can see El Salvador
I hear the cries of children and the other songs of war
It's like a mighty melody that rings down from the sky
Standing here upon the moon I watch it all roll by
All roll by
All roll by
All roll by

Standing on the moon, I see a shadow on the sun
Standing on the moon, the stars go fading one by one
I hear a cry of victory, another of defeat
A scrap of age-old lullaby down some forgotten street

Standing on the moon, where talk is cheap and vision true
Standing on the moon, but I would rather be with you
Somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July
Just looking up to heaven at this crescent in the sky
In the sky

Standing on the moon with nothing left to do
A lovely view of heaven but I'd rather be with you
A lovely view of heaven but I'd rather be with you
Be with you
I'd rather be with you

3 comments:

KellyAnn said...

I seen that on hookaheads, I really wished I would have been there :(

Andrea said...

Wow! Very cool you that you posted this. SOTM tops the my list of favorite GD songs. I wish I had seen them in concert. I just thought I still "had time" to get it in. DANG!

I'm not sure when it was written, probably some time in the 80's. It's 20 years later and yet the lyrics are still true today.

Reading this made me want to hear it again. Found a place where you can download a whole live Dead show. Thought you might be interested:

http://www.archive.org/details/gd93-09-26.schoeps.pujol.13990.sbeok.shnf

alli-gal said...

Sometimes it takes me reading the lyrics away from the music to really appreciate a song fully. This one is timeless......