Musical Interlude~The Dead

This is what's in my head today as a black man is executed in Georgia despite a lack of any real evidence he committed a crime, the stock market plummets again, and we move toward yet another government shutdown showdown, this time to deny funding for aid to the victims of Irene and all the other natural disasters various people are facing all over the country--pretty obvious the rent is in arrears and the dog has not been fed in years and that paint by number sky is looking phonier every morning.

...here's Garcia in his last days, playing it all for laughs, cynical, pessimistic, and oddly comforting in just not giving a rat's ass anymore:

Dead Factoid: The apocryphal story of how the band got it's name:

Notable rock band The Grateful Dead purportedly were reading over a translation of parts of the [Egyptian]Book of the Dead when they came across the phrases, "We now return our souls to the creator, as we stand on the edge of eternal darkness. Let our chant fill the void in order that others may know. In the land of the night the ship of the sun is drawn by the grateful dead." 

~wikipedia

I see you've got your list out

Say your piece and get out

Yes I get the gist of it

but it's all right

Sorry that you feel that way

The only thing there is to say

Every silver lining's got a

Touch of grey

we will get by

we will survive

full lyrics here