Weather Report Suite Live at Portland Memorial Coliseum Portland OR May 19 1974 by The Grateful Dead Lyrics
[Prelude]
[Instrumental]
[Part 1]
[Verse 1]
Winter rain, now tell me why
Summers fade, and roses die
The answer came
The wind and rain
[Verse 2]
Golden hills, now veiled in gray
Summer leaves have blown away
And what remains?
The wind and rain
[Chorus]
And like a desert spring
My lover comes and spreads her wings (Flowing)
Like a song that's born to soar the sky (Flowing)
Flowing 'til the waters all are dry (Flowing)
The loving in her eyes
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
Circle songs and sands of time
And summers will end in tumbled rhyme
And little change
The wind and rain
[Chorus]
And like a desert spring
My lover comes and spreads her wings (Flowing)
Like a song that's born to soar the sky (Flowing)
Flowing 'til the waters all are dry (Flowing)
The loving in her eyes
[Outro]
Winter gray and falling rain
We'll see summer come again
Darkness falls and seasons change
(Gonna happen every time)
The same old friends, the wind and rain
(But we'll see summer by and by)
Winter gray and falling rain
(Seasons change and roses die)
We'll see summer come again
(Don't they know, gonna happen every time)
Darkness falls and seasons change
(Seasons change and roses die)
The same old friends the wind and rain
(Like a song that's born to soar the sky)
[Part 2: Let It Grow]
[Verse 1]
Morning comes, she follows the path to the river shore
Lightly sung, her song is the latch on the morning's door
See the sun sparkle in the reeds
Silver beads, pass into the sea
She comes from the town where they call her the woodcutter's daughter
And she's brown as the bank where she kneels down to gather her water
And she bears it away with a love that the river has taught her
[Refrain]
Let it flow, let it flow, wide and clear
[Verse 2]
Round and round, the cut of the plow in the furrowed field
Seasons round, the bushels of corn and the barley meal
Broken ground, open and beckoning to the spring
Black dirt live again
The plowman is broad as the back of the land he's sowing
As he dances the circular track of the plow ever knowing
That the work of his days measures more than the planting and growing
[Refrain]
Let it grow, greatly grow, greatly yield
[Bridge]
What shall we say, shall we call it by a name?
As well to count the angels dancing on a pin
Water bright as the sky from which it came
And the name is on the earth that takes it in
We will not speak but stand inside the rain
And listen to the thunder shout "I am! I am! I am! I am!"
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
Round and round...
So it goes...
Seasons round, creatures great and small
Up and down as we rise and fall
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro]
What shall we say, shall we call it by a name?
As well to count the angels dancing on a pin
Water bright as the sky from which it came
And the name is on the earth that takes it in
We will not speak but stand inside the rain
And listen to the thunder shout "I am! I am! I am! I am!"
[Instrumental]
[Instrumental]
[Part 1]
[Verse 1]
Winter rain, now tell me why
Summers fade, and roses die
The answer came
The wind and rain
[Verse 2]
Golden hills, now veiled in gray
Summer leaves have blown away
And what remains?
The wind and rain
[Chorus]
And like a desert spring
My lover comes and spreads her wings (Flowing)
Like a song that's born to soar the sky (Flowing)
Flowing 'til the waters all are dry (Flowing)
The loving in her eyes
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
Circle songs and sands of time
And summers will end in tumbled rhyme
And little change
The wind and rain
[Chorus]
And like a desert spring
My lover comes and spreads her wings (Flowing)
Like a song that's born to soar the sky (Flowing)
Flowing 'til the waters all are dry (Flowing)
The loving in her eyes
[Outro]
Winter gray and falling rain
We'll see summer come again
Darkness falls and seasons change
(Gonna happen every time)
The same old friends, the wind and rain
(But we'll see summer by and by)
Winter gray and falling rain
(Seasons change and roses die)
We'll see summer come again
(Don't they know, gonna happen every time)
Darkness falls and seasons change
(Seasons change and roses die)
The same old friends the wind and rain
(Like a song that's born to soar the sky)
[Part 2: Let It Grow]
[Verse 1]
Morning comes, she follows the path to the river shore
Lightly sung, her song is the latch on the morning's door
See the sun sparkle in the reeds
Silver beads, pass into the sea
She comes from the town where they call her the woodcutter's daughter
And she's brown as the bank where she kneels down to gather her water
And she bears it away with a love that the river has taught her
[Refrain]
Let it flow, let it flow, wide and clear
[Verse 2]
Round and round, the cut of the plow in the furrowed field
Seasons round, the bushels of corn and the barley meal
Broken ground, open and beckoning to the spring
Black dirt live again
The plowman is broad as the back of the land he's sowing
As he dances the circular track of the plow ever knowing
That the work of his days measures more than the planting and growing
[Refrain]
Let it grow, greatly grow, greatly yield
[Bridge]
What shall we say, shall we call it by a name?
As well to count the angels dancing on a pin
Water bright as the sky from which it came
And the name is on the earth that takes it in
We will not speak but stand inside the rain
And listen to the thunder shout "I am! I am! I am! I am!"
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
Round and round...
So it goes...
Seasons round, creatures great and small
Up and down as we rise and fall
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro]
What shall we say, shall we call it by a name?
As well to count the angels dancing on a pin
Water bright as the sky from which it came
And the name is on the earth that takes it in
We will not speak but stand inside the rain
And listen to the thunder shout "I am! I am! I am! I am!"
[Instrumental]