cosmic life

  

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Standing on the moon 
I got no cobweb on my shoe 
Standing on the moon 
I'm feeling so alone and blue 
I see the gulf of Mexico 
As tiny as a tear 
The coast of California 
Must be somewhere over here - over here

Standing on the moon 
I see the battle rage below 
Standing on the moon 
I see the soldiers come and go 
There's a metal flag beside me 
Someone planted long ago 
Old Glory standing stiffly 
Crimson, white and indigo - indigo

I see all of Southeast Asia 
I can see El Salvador 
I hear the cries of children 
And the other songs of war 
It's like a mighty melody 
That rings down from the sky 
Standing here upon the moon 
I watch it all roll by - all roll by

Standing on the moon 
With nothing else to do 
A lovely view of heaven 
But I'd rather be with you

Standing on the moon 
I see a shadow on the sun 
Standing on the moon 
The stars go fading one by one 
I hear a cry of victory 
And another of defeat 
A scrap of age old lullaby 
Down some forgotten street

Standing on the moon 
Where talk is cheap and vision true 
Standing on the moon 
But I would rather be with you 
Somewhere in San Francisco 
On a back porch in July 
Just looking up to heaven 
At this crescent in the sky

Standing on the moon 
With nothing left to do 
A lovely view of heaven 
But I'd rather be with you - be with you

Standing On the Moon
Grateful Dead

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Now we have to get back the cosmos, and it can’t be done by a trick. The great range of responses that have fallen dead in us have to come to life again. It has taken two thousand years to kill them. Who knows how long it will take to bring them to life.

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

It is nothing human and personal that we are short of. What we lack is cosmic life, the sun in us and the moon in us.


—D.H. Lawrence
Apocalypse

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