"Well strange is the story your eyes tell me"

The Annotated "The Only Time Is Now"

An installment in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.
By David Dodd

Copyright notice
"The Only Time Is Now"
Lyrics: Garcia; music: The Grateful Dead
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission.

Oh I know there is no place you can go to
And I know you don't know anyone at all
So come walking in the sun with me my little one
And remember that the only time is now

Well strange is the story your eyes tell me
And quiet all the few words that you say
So come and hold my hand for you see I'd understand
And remember that the only time is now

Oh I come to you a ragged laughing stranger
And you come to me an angel of the night
So I'll dance and we will sing, for it doesn't mean a thing
To remember that the only time is now

So forget about your yesterdays of sorrow
And forget about the darkness you have seen
For there's only you and me at the edge of an endless sea
And remember that the only time is now

"The Only Time Is Now"

Recorded Nov. 3, 1965. Included in
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First posted: May 16, 2003