Cassidy
The Grateful Dead * Track #4 On Without a Net
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Cassidy by The Grateful Dead
Release Date
Performed by
The Grateful DeadProduced by
Jerry Garcia & Betty Cantor & Dan HealyWrited by
John Perry Barlow & Bob WeirAbout
From John Barlow’s essay, Cassidy’s Tale:
This is a song about necessary dualities: dying & being born, men & women, speaking & being silent, devastation & growth, desolation & hope.
“Cassidy” is one of the songs that broke-up Bob Weir and Robert Hunter’s songwriting relationsh...
Cassidy Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I have seen where the wolf has slept by the
Silver stream
I can tell by the mark he left you were in his
Dream
Ah, child of countless trees
Ah, child of boundless seas
What you are, what you're meant to be
Speaks his name, though you were born to me
Born to me
Cassidy...
[Verse 2]
Lost now on the country miles in his cadillac
I can tell by the way you smile he's rolling back
Come wash the nighttime clean
Come grow this scorched ground green
Blow the horn, tap the tambourine
Close the gap of the dark years in between
You and me
Cassidy...
[Verse 3]
Quick beats in an icy heart
Catch-colt draws a coffin cart
There he goes now, here she starts:
Hear her cry
Flight of the seabirds, scattered like lost words
Wheel to the storm and fly
[Verse 4]
Fare thee well now
Let your life proceed by its own design
Nothing to tell now
Let the words be yours, I'm done with mine
(repeat verse)
Flight of the seabirds, scattered like lost words
Wheel to the storm and fly
Cassidy Q&A
Who wrote Cassidy's ?
Cassidy was written by John Perry Barlow & Bob Weir.
Who produced Cassidy's ?
Cassidy was produced by Jerry Garcia & Betty Cantor & Dan Healy.
When did The Grateful Dead release Cassidy?
The Grateful Dead released Cassidy on Wed Apr 01 1981.
What did The Grateful Dead say about "Cassidy"?
From Blair Jackson’s Goin' Down the Road: Bob Weir, when asked if there are Dead songs with lyrics he himself doesn’t fully understand:
Most of “Cassidy.” I really couldn’t have told you what it meant way back when, and I really don’t know that I could tell you now, though I know for myself it’s co...