[00:00:00] Throwing Stones (Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York 3/29/90|Live) - Grateful Dead [00:00:06] Written by:Robert Hall/John Barlow [00:00:23] Picture a bright blue ball just spinning spinning free [00:00:28] Dizzy with eternity [00:00:32] Paint it with a skin of sky brush in some clouds and sea [00:00:37] Call it home for you and me [00:00:43] A peaceful place or so it looks from space [00:00:47] A closer look reveals the human race [00:00:52] Full of hope full of grace is the human face [00:00:56] But afraid we may our home to waste [00:01:04] There's a fear down here [00:01:05] We can't forget hasn't got a name just yet [00:01:14] Always awake always around [00:01:19] Singing ashes to ashes all fall down [00:01:21] Singing ashes to ashes all fall down [00:01:25] Now watch as the ball revolves and the nighttime calls [00:01:30] And again the hunt begins and again the bloodwind calls [00:01:35] By and by again the morning sun will rise [00:01:39] But the darkness never goes from some mens eyes [00:01:45] It strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets [00:01:49] Stalking turf dividing up meat [00:01:55] Nightmare spook piece of heat you and me you and me [00:02:07] Click flashblade in ghetto night [00:02:12] Rudies looking for a fight [00:02:17] Rat cat alley roll them bones [00:02:22] Need that cash to feed that Jones [00:02:24] And the politicians throwing stones [00:02:26] Singing ashes ashes all fall down [00:02:29] Singing [00:02:32] Commissars and pin striped bosses role the dice [00:02:37] Any way they fall guess who gets to pay the price [00:02:42] Money green or proletarian gray [00:02:46] Selling guns instead of food today [00:02:53] So the kids they dance they shake their bones [00:02:56] While the politicians throwing stones [00:02:59] Singing ashes ashes all fall down [00:03:01] Singing ashes ashes all fall down [00:03:24] Heartless powers try to tell us what to think [00:03:29] If the spirits sleeping then the flesh is ink [00:03:34] Historys page it is thusly carved in stone [00:03:38] The futures here we are it we are on our own [00:03:44] On our own [00:03:46] On our own [00:03:48] On our own [00:03:51] On our own [00:03:53] On our own [00:03:55] On our own [00:03:58] On our own [00:04:00] On our own [00:04:03] On our own [00:04:05] On our own [00:06:32] If the game is lost then we're all the same [00:06:36] No one left to place or take the blame [00:06:42] We will leave this place an empty stone [00:06:46] Or this shinning ball of blue we can call our home [00:06:53] So the kids they dance they shake their bones [00:06:56] While the politicians are throwing stones [00:06:58] Singing ashes ashes all fall down [00:07:01] Singing [00:07:24] Shipping powders back and forth [00:07:28] Singing black goes south while white comes north [00:07:33] And the whole world full of petty wars [00:07:38] I got mine and you got yours [00:07:43] And the current fashions set the pace [00:07:48] Lose your step fall out of grace [00:07:53] And the radical he rant and rage [00:07:57] Singing someone got to turn the page [00:08:02] And the rich man in his summer home [00:08:07] Singing just leave well enough alone [00:08:12] But his pants are down his covers blown [00:08:17] And the politicians are throwing stones [00:08:19] So the kids they dance they shake their bones [00:08:22] Cause it's all too clear were on our own [00:08:24] Singing ashes ashes all fall down [00:08:30] Picture a bright blue ball just spinning spinning free [00:08:34] It's dizzying the possibilities ashes [00:08:40] Ashes all fall down [00:08:42] Ashes ashes all fall down [00:08:44] Singing ashes ashes all fall down [00:08:47] Ashes ashes all fall down [00:08:49] Singing ashes ashes all fall down [00:08:51] Ashes ashes all fall down [00:08:54] Singing ashes ashes all fall down [00:08:56] Ashes ashes all fall down [00:08:59] Ashes ashes all fall down [00:09:01] Ashes ashes all fall down [00:09:04] Singing ashes ashes all fall down [00:09:08] Singing ashes ashes all fall down [00:09:13] Singing ashes ashes all fall down [00:09:18] Singing ashes ashes all fall down