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Weather Report Suite: Part 2 (Let It Grow)

This version of Weather Report Suite: Part 2 (Let It Grow) was released by Grateful Dead in 1973.

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Morning comes, she follows the path to the river shore
Lightly sung, her song is the latch on the morning’s door
See the sun sparkle in the reeds; silver beads pass into the sea

She comes from a town where they call her the woodcutter’s daughter
She’s brown as the bank where she kneels down to gather her water
And she bears it away with a love that the river has taught her
Let it flow, greatly flow, wide and clear

Round and round, the cut of the plow in the furrowed field
Seasons round, the bushels of corn and the barley meal
Broken ground, open and beckoning to the spring; black dirt live again

The plowman is broad as the back of the land he is sowing
As he dances the circular track of the plow ever knowing
That the work of his day measures more than the planting and growing
Let it grow, let it grow, greatly yield

What shall we say, shall we call it by a name
As well to count the angels dancing on a pin
Water bright as the sky from which it came
And the name is on the earth that takes it in
We will not speak but stand inside the rain
And listen to the thunder shout
I am, I am, I am, I am

So it goes, we make what we made since the world began
Nothing more, the love of the women, work of men
Seasons round, creatures great and small, up and down, as we rise and fall

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About Lyrics and Weather Report Suite: Part 2 (Let It Grow) by Grateful Dead

The lyrics to Weather Report Suite: Part 2 (Let It Grow) are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Grateful Dead used when the song was created in 1973. The lyrics to Weather Report Suite: Part 2 (Let It Grow) have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Grateful Dead and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Weather Report Suite: Part 2 (Let It Grow) by Grateful Dead. 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 Weather Report Suite: Part 2 (Let It Grow)" means the words set to the music of Weather Report Suite: Part 2 (Let It Grow), 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 Weather Report Suite: Part 2 (Let It Grow) and the lyrics to Weather Report Suite: Part 2 (Let It Grow) 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 Weather Report Suite: Part 2 (Let It Grow), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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