Can anyone tell me who wrote the line:
So I'll just say I love you which I never said before and let it go at that old friend, and the rest you may ignore.
2006-09-01 06:59:21 · 6 answers · asked by MexicaliBlues 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
This is from a elegy Robert Hunter - See below:
May have been written for Jerry Gacia's death
R.I.P.
Jerome John Garcia
Aug 1, 1942 - Aug 9, 1995
Jerry, my friend,
you've done it again,
even in your silence
the familiar pressure
comes to bear, demanding
I pull words from the air
with only this morning
and part of the afternoon
to compose an ode worthy
of one so particular
about every turn of phrase,
demanding it hit home
in a thousand ways
before making it his own,
and this I can't do alone.
Now that the singer is gone,
where shall I go for the song?
Without your melody and tase
to lend an attitude of grace
a lyric is an orphan thing,
a hive with neither honey's taste
nor power to truly sting.
What choice have I but to dare and
call your muse who thought to rest
out of the thin blue air
that out of the field of shared time,
a line or two might chance to shine --
As ever when we called,
in hope if not in words,
the muse descends.
How should she desert us now?
Scars of battle on her brow,
bedraggled feathers on her wings,
and yet she sings, she sings!
May she bear thee to thy rest,
the ancient bower of flowers
beyond the solitude of days,
the tyranny of hours--
the wreath of shining laurel lie
upon your shaggy head
bestowing power to play the lyre
to legions of the dead
If some part of that music
is heard in deepest dream,
or on some breeze of Summer
a snatch of golden theme,
we'll know you live inside us
with love that never parts
our good old Jack O'Diamonds
become the King of Hearts.
I feel your silent laughter
at sentiments so bold
that dare to step across the line
to tell what must be told,
so I'll just say I love you,
which I never said before
and let it go at that old friend
the rest you may ignore.
2006-09-01 07:09:14 · answer #1 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
An Elegy for Jerry (by Robert Hunter)
Jerry Garcia's Funeral
"I feel your silent laughter
at sentiments so bold
that dare to step across the line
to tell what must be told,
so I'll just say I love you,
which I never said before
and let it go at that old friend
the rest you may ignore."
2006-09-01 14:06:31 · answer #2 · answered by Kala 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
An Elegy for Jerry By Robert Hunter
2006-09-01 14:08:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jerry Garcia
2006-09-01 15:00:42 · answer #4 · answered by R.T.D. 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Robert hunter... Jerry G's eulogy
2006-09-02 18:45:10 · answer #5 · answered by David C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-01 15:14:43 · answer #6 · answered by majidoneone 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋