Robert Hunter
Robert Hunter
Guitarist and lyricist best known for his longtime collaboration with jam band The Grateful Dead. Though he does not normally perform live with the band, he has co-written many of their most famous songs, including "Dark Star".
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSongwriter
Date of Birth23 June 1941
CountryUnited States of America
confused play ifs
...if you get confused, just listen to the music play.
sky san-francisco july
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
song moving inspiration
Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair
song fall faults
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.
blind crippled
Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.
eye wake-up world
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.
spring night wings
Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.
sunshine voice gold
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?
dark simple night
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.
pride light grace
In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
fate done waste
Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.
inspirational life learning
Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right
men spills one-man
One man gathers what another man spills
fair gotten until whether won
She's got to get a fair count. Until she's gotten a fair count, she won't know whether she's won or lost.