Lyrics to
The Music Never Stopped

Released by Grateful Dead in 1975
From the Album: Blues For Allah |

This version of The Music Never Stopped was released by Grateful Dead in 1975.

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There’s mosquitoes on the river Fish are rising up like birds
It’s been hot for seven weeks now,
Too hot to even speak now, Did you hear what I just heard?

Say it might have been a fiddle or it could have been the wind
But there seems to be a beat now I can feel it my feet now
Listen here it comes again!

There’s a band out on the highway, They’re high steppin’ into town
It’s a rainbow full of sound, It’s fireworks, calliopes and clowns
Everybody dancin’ C’mon children, C’mon children, Come on clap your hands.

Sun went down in honey and the moon came up in wine,
You know stars were spinnin’ dizzy, Lord
The band kept us too busy we forgot about the time.

They’re a band beyond description, Like Jehovah’s favorite choir
People joining hand in hand While the music played the band, Lord
They’re setting us on fire.

Crazy rooster crowin’ midnight, Balls of lightin’ roll along
Old men sing about their dreams, Women laugh and children scream
And the band keeps playin’ on.

Keep on dancin’ thru the daylight, Greet the mornin’ air with song
No ones’s noticed, but the band’s all pack and gone. Was it ever there at all?
But they keep on dancin’ C’mon children, C’mon children, Come on clap your hands
Well the cool breeze came on Tuesday, And the corn’s a bumper crop
And the fields are full of dancin’ Full of singin’ and romancin’
The music never stopped.


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The lyrics for The Music Never Stopped are defined as the words making up the song released by Grateful Dead in 1975. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to The Music Never Stopped have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Grateful Dead and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to The Music Never Stopped by Grateful Dead if you think through it. 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 The Music Never Stopped" means the words set to the music of The Music Never Stopped, 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 The Music Never Stopped and the lyrics to The Music Never Stopped 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 The Music Never Stopped, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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