Every song falls short of the glory of what a song could be. That's why the urge is there to start again and yet again. Often it's the fault of rhyme. I've discovered a hundred times that there just aren't enough rhymes to say what I wanted to say, so I said something else instead. Sometimes it was a better thing, but the thing I meant to say went unsaid. So there's an opening for another song.
Ain't nobody messin' with you but you - Robert Hunter
Ain't nobody messin' with you but you
- Robert Hunter
Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend. - Robert Hunter
Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.
...if you get confused, just listen to the music play. - Robert Hunter
...if you get confused, just listen to the music play.
There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone. - Robert Hunter
There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone.
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 … - Robert Hunter
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 …
Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done. - Robert Hunter
Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done.
Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right - Robert Hunter
Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right
Let there be songs to fill the air. - Robert Hunter
Let there be songs to fill the air.
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Robert Hunter
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own
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