Dead Songs in Depth

    
Comes A Time
w: Hunter m: Garcia
AGDL: http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/come.html
LASF: http://www.whitegum.com/songfile/COMESTIM.HTM
  

    
Comes A Time 
Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia

Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission.

Chorus:
Comes a time when the blind man takes your hand
Says "don't you see?"
Gotta make it somehow
On the dreams you still believe
Don't give it up
You got an empty cup
Only love can fill
Only love can fill

Been walking all morning
Went walking all night
I can't see much difference
Between the dark and light
And I feel the wind
And I taste the rain
Never in my mind
To cause so much pain

[chorus]

From day to day
Just letting it ride
You get so far away
From how it feels inside
You can't let go
'Cause you're afraid to fall
But the day may come
When you can't feel at all

[chorus]


Additional verse:

When the words come out
Like an angry stream
You hear yourself say
Things you could never mean
When the heat goes down
And you find your mind
You got a lot of words
You've got to stand behind
  

    



L. Dana Gartenlaub writes:




To the community:

I specifically remember the song "Comes a Time" with the following verse sung
as the SECOND verse:

Words come out, in an angry stream
Find yourself saying things you could never, ever mean
When the heat cools down, and you've found your mind
Got a lot of words you have to stand behind

It makes more sense to me in the second verse position, and it would have to
have been sometime from 1969 to 1971 at the Fillmore East, the University of
Rochester, or the Buffalo concert with all the snow, with the Buffalo
symphony.

Anyone else have any input?

Thanks,

L. Dana Gartenlaub
  

    

I remember that verse.  The first time I heard the song was on a tape from
the Harding Theater in SF 11/7/71, and that verse was in there.
  

    
I also think it was a good idea to cut it. It scans awkwardly compared
to the other verses and the song is stronger and tighter without,
though I love to hear variations and earlier takes, et.
  

    
I dunno. I'm gonna keep the notion in my back pocket.