The Grateful Dead
Saint of Circumstance (Live at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, May 6, 1981)
[Verse 1]
This must be heaven
Tonight I cross the line
You must be the angels
I thought I might never find
Was it you I heard singing
Oh, while I was chasing dreams?
Driven by the wind
Like the dust that blows around

[Chorus]
When the rain fallin' down now
I never know now
No, I never know, no, no, no, no

[Verse 2]
Got to be heaven
'Cause here's where the rainbow ends
And if this ain't the real thing
We're close enough to pretend, pretеnd
But when that wind blows
When the night's about to fall
I can hеar the sirens call
It's a certain sort of sound

[Chorus]
When the rain fallin' down now
Rain fallin' down
The rain' fallin' down
[Bridge]
Holes in what's left of my reason
Holes in the knees of my blues
Odds against me been increasin'
But I'll pull through, that's right

Never could read no road map
No, I don't know what the weather might do
Hear that witch wind whinin'
See that dog star shinin'
I've got a feelin' there's no time to lose
No time to lose

Never know, no, no
Never never know, no, no, no

[Verse 3]
Well, it's been heaven
But even rainbows will end
Now my sails are fillin'
And the wind is willin'
And I'm good as gone again
And I'm still walkin', so I'm sure that I can dance
The Saint of Circumstance
Just a tiger in a trance
In the rain fallin' down now
[Bridge]
Rain fallin' down now
Rain fallin' down now
Rain fallin' down
Rain fallin' down, the rain fallin' down

[Instrumental Break]

[Outro]
Woo, well, I never know, no
Just don't know, I never know now
Listen, I sure don't know what I'm going for
But I'm gonna go for it for sure
I sure don't know what I'm going for
(Never know, I never know)
But I'm gonna go for it for sure
('Cause I got to, got to go)
I sure don't know what I'm going for
(Maybe going on a dream)
But I'm gonna go for it for sure
(Maybe going on a feeling)
I sure don't know what I'm going for
(Maybe never never never know, no)
But I'm gonna go for it for sure
(Got to, got to, got to, got to go)
I sure don't know what I'm going for
(How about you now? You know?)
But I'm gonna go for it for sure
('Cause what you got to do, hey)
I sure don't know what I'm going for
(No, I never, never, never know)
But I'm gonna go for it for sure
(No, no, no, at the show, hey)
I sure don't know what I'm going for
(Maybe going on a dream now)
But I'm gonna go for it for sure
(Maybe going on a feeling, maybe going on a feeling)
[Scarlet Begonias]

[Verse 1]
As I was walking 'round Grosvenor Square
Not a chill to the winter
But a nip to the air
From the other direction
She was calling my eye
It could be an illusion
But I might as well try
Might as well try

[Verse 2]
Had rings on her fingers
And bells on her shoes
And I knew without asking
She was into the blues
She wore scarlet begonias
Tucked into her curls
I knew right away
She was not like other girls
Other girls

[Verse 3]
In the heat of the evening
When the dealing got rough
She was too pat to open
And too cool to bluff
I picked up my matches
And was closing the door
I had one of those flashes
I'd been there before
Been there before

[Bridge]
I ain't often right
But I've never been wrong
It seldom turns out the way
It does in the song
Once in a while
You can get shown the light
In the strangest of places
If you look at it right

[Verse 4]
Ain't nothing wrong with the way she moves
Or scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues
And there's nothing wrong with the look that's in her eye
Had to learn the hard way to let her pass by
Let her pass by

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 5]
The wind in the willows played tea for two
The sky was yellow and the sun was blue
Strangers stopping strangers
Just to shake their hand
Everybody's playing
In the Heart of Gold Band
Heart of Gold Band

[Instrumental]

[Fire on the Mountain]

[Verse 1]
Long distance runner, what you standin' there for?
Get up, get on, get out of the door
Playing cold music on the barroom floor
Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core
Dragon with matches loose on the town
Takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down

[Chorus]
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 2]
Almost ablaze still you don't feel the heat
It takes all you got just to stay on the beat
You say it's a living, we all gotta eat
But you're here alone, there's no one to compete
If mercy's in business, I wish it for you
More than just ashes when your dreams come true

[Chorus]
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
Long distance runner, what you holding out for?
Caught in slow motion in a fall to the floor
You're playing cold and now spread to the floor
You gave all you had, why you wanna give more?
The more that you give, the more it will take
To the thin line beyond which you really can't fake
Well

[Chorus]
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!

[Outro]
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain! (Well)
Fire! Fire on the mountain!
Fire! Fire on the mountain!

[Instrumental]