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
pride light grace
In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
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?
blind crippled
Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.
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
yellow blue sky
The sky was yellow and the sun was blue...
circles darkness lovers
Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet
way sometimes particular
Sometimes we live no particular way but our own
golf player scratches
The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.
judging vote ready
When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.
jewels gold pay
I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.
dream song fall
When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings of my harp to sever, And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears... I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And dream me a dream of my own, I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And sing me a song of my own.
dream without-love
Without love in a dream it will never come true
couple infection nurses request soon spinal touch
I got really, really sick with a spinal infection that put me in a hospital for a couple of months, and it was touch and go. I had my guitar with me, and as soon as I got well enough to play, there was nothing else to do in that hospital. The nurses would come in and request songs.