Lyrics: Robert Hunter, Barry Melton
Music: Robert Hunter, Barry Melton
The only song on the Dinosaurs CD with Robert Hunter performing (he wrote the lyrics to some of their other songs).
It doesn't appear in Robert Hunter's lyric book "Box Of Rain", perhaps because it is co-written with Barry Melton.
I assume that Barry Melton wrote the portions he sings (indicated below) and Robert Hunter the portions he sings:
[Melton]Thanks to Jesse Jarnow for pointing out that with the Dinosaurs in 1982, Hunter sang two different verses:
I know we all are different
In some ways we're the same
I know we've all been pushed around
Like pieces in a game
Chorus
Who, who, who
Who makes the moves?
Who, who, who
Who makes the moves?
[Hunter]
Along come a dinosuar, his tale told twice
Singing of hard-hearted Anna from a stage of ice
A red-hot scarlet spotlight melts the stage into a flood
Flows across the footlights like a waterfall of blood
[chorus]
[Hunter]
Paper, scissors, diamond, knife, a game of roshambo
Chances are what chances are but chances are you know
A grassy knoll in Dallas testifies what none can prove
A nation sunk in apathy don't really seem to care exactly who
[chorus]
[Melton]
You might think I'm crazy
Something's going down
The way it's going it won't be long
Until we're all underground
Tell me
[chorus]
[chorus]
The carpenter comes and his nails are iceNotes
He sets up the table and he tosses his dice
First passes seven, the table dissolves
To the night of the demons and the passage of laws
Won't you give me one good answer to the question I raise (note 1)
What's the point of waiting with both feet in the grave
I've been counting hours and I've been counting time
Answers come by dozens by none of them are mine
or sometimes
I'm tired of the bullshit, you know I don't have the time
To build a ladder to the stars, much less even climb
| Recordings | |||||
| Date | Album | Recorded By | |||
| 2005 | Friends Of Extinction | Dinosaurs | |||