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Help On The Way

This version of Help On The Way was released by Grateful Dead in 1975.

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Paradise waits, on the crest of a wave, her angels in flames.
She has no pain, like a child she is pure, she is not to blame.
Poised for flight, wings spread bright, spring from night into the sun.
Don’t stop to run, she can fly like a lie, she can’t be outdone.

Tell me the cost; I can pay, let me go, tell me love is not lost.
Sell everything; without love day to day insanity’s king.
I will pay day by day, anyway, lock, bolt and key.
Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.

Help on the way, well, I know only this, I’ve got you today.
Don’t fly away, cause I love what I love and I want it that way.
I will stay one more day, like I say, honey it’s you.
Making it too, without love in a dream it will never come true.

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The lyrics for Help On The Way are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by Grateful Dead. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Help On The Way have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Help On The Way - Grateful Dead and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Help On The Way by Grateful Dead in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Help On The Way" means the words set to the music of Help On The Way, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Grateful Dead. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Help On The Way and the lyrics to Help On The Way are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Grateful Dead who came here looking just for the lyrics to Help On The Way, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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