Throwing Stones (Live at Pine Knob Music Theater, Clarkston, MI, June 20, 1991)-Grateful Dead

[00:52.12]Picture a bright blue ball just spinning spinning free [00:57.38]Dizzy with eternity [01:01.94]Paint it with a skin of sky brush in some clouds and sea [01:06.50]Call it home for you and me [01:12.35]A peaceful place or so it looks from space [01:17.05]A closer look reveals the human race [01:22.09]Full of hope full of grace is the human face [01:26.29]But afraid we may lay our home to waste [01:34.05]There's a fear down here we can't forget [01:39.52]Hasn't got a name just yet [01:44.31]Always awake always around [01:49.06]Singing ashes to ashes all fall down [01:52.75]Ashes to ashes all fall down [01:55.12]Now watch as the ball revolves and the nighttime falls [01:59.96]And again the hunt begins and again the bloodwind calls [02:05.33]By and by again the morning sun will rise [02:09.68]But the darkness never goes from some men's eyes [02:14.09]It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets [02:20.23]Staking turf dividing up meat [02:25.55]Nightmare spook piece of heat [02:29.37]It's you and me you and me [02:37.34]Whoa click flashblade in ghetto night [02:42.80]Rudie's looking for a fight [02:47.58]Rat cat alley roll them bones [02:52.70]Need that cash to feed that jones [02:55.13]And the politician's throwing stones [02:57.39]Singing ashes to ashes all fall down [03:03.07]Commissars and pin-striped bosses role the dice [03:07.96]Any way they fall guess who gets to pay the price [03:12.83]Money green or proletarian gray [03:17.12]Selling guns instead of food today [03:25.03]So the kids they dance and shake their bones [03:27.98]And the politician's throwing stones [03:29.99]Singing ashes to ashes all fall down [03:32.73] [03:56.05]Heartless powers try to tell us what to think [04:01.08]If the spirit's sleeping then the flesh is ink yeah [04:06.20]History's page it is thusly carved in stone [04:09.61]The future's here we are it we are on our own [04:17.69]On our own [04:22.57]On our own [04:27.49]On our own [04:32.21]On our own [04:37.31]On our own [04:42.08]On our own [04:46.89]On our own [04:51.55]On our own [04:54.67]On our own [04:57.08]On our own [04:59.47]On our own [05:03.05] [07:31.38]If the game is lost then we're all the same [07:36.03]No one left to place or take the blame [07:41.42]We will leave this place an empty stone [07:44.68]Or that shinning ball of blue we can call our home [07:53.38]So the kids they dance they shake their bones [07:56.31]And the politicians throwing stones [07:58.45]Singing ashes to ashes all fall down [08:01.09] [08:24.27]Shipping powders back and forth [08:28.78]Singing black goes south and white comes north [08:34.03]And the whole world full of petty wars [08:39.06]Singing I got mine and you got yours [08:44.17]And the current fashions set the pace [08:49.47]Lose your step fall out of grace [08:54.59]And the radical he rant and rage [08:59.34]Singing someone got to turn the page [09:04.22]And the rich man in his summer home [09:09.36]Singing Just leave well enough alone [09:14.58]But his pants are down his cover's blown [09:19.71]And the politicians throwing stones [09:22.03]So the kids they dance they shake their bones [09:24.84]Cause its all too clear we're on our own [09:27.19]Sing ashes to ashes all fall down [09:29.90]Ashes to ashes all fall down [09:33.41]Picture a bright blue ball just spinning spinning free [09:40.21]