The first song I wrote with Dean Sottile. A beautiful tribute to lyricist Robert Hunter. I knew there was music in those words.
Lyrics by Dean Sottile; music by Larree Hollywood - all rights reserved
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Ode to Robert Hunter
Your pen has graced the pages of our lives in every way
You reached inside and spoke of things we hide from day to day
You saw inside the insides of our lives and hearts and souls
Where many powers, great and small, all fight for the controls
A mighty ship has mighty parts and many can't be seen
You have been the rudder in the days that lied between
Your hands have crafted many parts that led us out to sea
Stormy nights and Sunny days, I know you spoke for me
Often times The Hunter may get captured by the game
The one that captured all of it has Hunter as his name
You painted pictures of our future with oils from the past
Your mind connected somehow to the one thing Built to Last
You wrote about tomorrow like it happened yesterday
You found a way to speak the words we all would love to say
The soundtrack of my life took flight before I came to hear it
The words I'd need in years to come delivered through your spirit
There's no way we could measure what you've brought throughout the years
Many million smiles, I know, and just as many tears
I'm sure that you've been honored more than many on the earth
I wonder if you know at all, what your treasure's worth
If you did I wonder If you'd care for it at all
I know you've seen the rising tide, I know you've seen it fall
With every step along the path your lyric lead the way
As valid 50 years ago as they are this very day
There are those that bake the bread and others that will eat it
You brought the flour and the glory fell on those who got to knead it
You found the words that gave a man the tools to make them stick
With all the power in dynamite, it's nothing without a wick
The spark that came from up above the wick that caught the spark
You took us to the light until you brought us In The Dark
I often sit and wonder what it's like inside your mind
The man who grabbed the future from so many years behind
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