dry your eyes on the wind

All I know is something like a bird within her sang, All I know she sang a little while and then flew on, Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain.If you hear that same sweet song again, will you know why? Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passin' by, Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark, fly through the night.Don't cry now, don't you cry, don't you cry anymore. Sleep in the stars, don't you cry, dry your eyes on the wind. All I know is something like a bird within her sang, All I know she sang a little while and then flew off, Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain.
Grateful Dead. I was writing an essay for women's studies and listening to music to guide my mind when that song came on. I don't even think that I was listening to it that much until the line: dry your eyes on the wind. Pretty magical line. I just wonder where artists come up with words like that, pure poetry. A lot of their songs are like that: Box of rain, Eyes of the world... I don't even know what those words mean but I like them. There's just something about the words that sends this amazing picture to the listener. or maybe it's just me. It would be more than likely that the band was high when they wrote those words but it doesn't make the song any less great. The song is something like 10 minutes long, I've listened to it twice in a row now, jsut listening to the jam style. You know, no two live performances by them were ever identical. That's innovation.