The Eleven

The Eleven

Song_infobox
Name = The Eleven


Artist = Grateful Dead
Album = Live/Dead
Released = November 10 1969
track_no = 3
Recorded = 1969
Genre = Psychedelic rock, jam
Length = 9:18
Writer = Robert Hunter
Composer = Phil Lesh
Label = Warner Bros.
Producer = Grateful Dead
Bob Matthews
Betty Cantor
[ Chart position = ]
prev = St. Stephen
prev_no = 2
next = Turn on Your Lovelight
next_no = 4

"The Eleven" is a song by American rock band The Grateful Dead. It was written by long-time lyricist Robert Hunter and bassist Phil Lesh.

The song was first released into the general public via the Grateful Dead's seminal live album, "Live/Dead"; however, it was performed live various times before as evidenced by the collection "So Many Roads (1965-1995)". It was noted among deadheads for being capable of producing exceptional jamming with its eponymous musical meter. [ [http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/eleven.html The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics] by David Dodd. Retrieved on 2006-07-28.] It would often achieve its jam potential by being segued together with songs like "Dark Star" (another song famous for its spontaneity and being the Grateful Dead's signature song [ [http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=11 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame] . Retrieved on 2006-07-28.] ) and "Saint Stephen".

Lyrics

The lyrics to the song were recurrently sung out of place or changed grammatically, and some of them were in fact missing from performances. Bob Weir and Phil Lesh would often sing from the two uppermost stanzas, while Jerry Garcia sang fragments from the bottom stanza. Some of the lyrics allude to biblical stories such as Jonah. Other lyrics echo passages from other songs in the Grateful Dead lineup.

:No more time to tell how:This is the season of what:Now is the time of returning:With thought jewels polished and gleaming

:Now is the time past believing:The child has relinquished the reign:Now is the test of the boomerang:Tossed in the night of redeeming

:Eight sided whispering hallelujah hatrack:Seven faced marble eye transitory dream doll:Six proud walkers on jinglebell rainbow:Five men writing in fingers of gold:Four men tracking down the great white sperm whale:Three girls wait in a foreign dominion:Ride in the whale belly:Fade away in moonlight:Sink beneath the waters to the coral sand below:Now is the time of returning

ee also

* Dark Star
* Musical improvisation

Notes

External links

* [http://dead.net/index2.php Dead.net] , the official site of the Grateful Dead


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