Melody Monday

Comes a Time ☮ Grateful Dead, 1977

Comes a time when the blind-man takes your hand, says don't you see?
Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe.
Don't give it up, you got an empty cup only love can fill,
Only love can fill.

Been walking all morning went walking all night
I can't see much difference between the dark and light
And I feel the wind and I taste the rain
Never in my mind to cause so much pain.

Comes a time when the blind-man takes your hand, says don't you see?
Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe.
Don't give it up, you got an empty cup only love can fill,
Only love can fill.

Day to day just letting it ride.
You get so far away from how it feels inside.
You can't let go cause you're afraid to fall,
But the day may come when you can't feel at all.

Comes a time when the blind-man takes your hand, says don't you see?
Gotta make it somehow on the dreams you still believe.
Don't give it up, you got an empty cup only love can fill,
Only love can fill, only love can fill, only love can fill.

Take it away Jerry...

JG 

First performance: October 19, 1971, at Northrop Auditorium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. "Comes a Time" appeared in the first set, following the first ever "Mexicali Blues" and preceding "Playing In the Band."Other firsts in the show, which was Keith Godchaux's first, were  "Tennessee Jed," "Jack Straw," "One More Saturday Night," and "Ramble On Rose."  The song never made it into a permanent rotation, but reappeared periodically over the years.