[Verse] In the attics of my life Full of cloudy dreams unreal Full of tastes no tongue can know And lights no eye can see When there was no ear to hear You sang to me
I have spent my life Seeking all that's still unsung Bent my ear to hear the tune And closed my eyes to see When there were no strings to play You played to me
In the book of love's own dream Where all the print is blood Where all the pages are my days And all my lights grow old When I had no wings to fly You flew to me
You Flew To me
In the secret space of dreams Where I dreaming lay amazed When the secrets all are told And the petals all unfold When there was no dream of mine You dreamed of me
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“Attics of My Life,” was written along with “Ripple” and “Brokedown Palace” in 1970, when Garcia was twenty-eight, and Lesh was thirty. All three songs portray emotional reaction resulting from a personal age where the inevitable deaths that accompany adulthood, and the rituals of succeeding generations, sit at the forefront of one’s mind.
This song closed the final set of the Grateful Dead’s “Fare Thee Well” Tour in 2015 at Soldier’s Field.
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