Standing on the Corner

Lyrics and music: Grateful Dead?
This was played a few times in 1966 but never played again.
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I was standing on the corner, wondering what's become of me

I was standing on the corner, wondering what's become of me

Well things don't seem to be the way they used to seem to be

I think I'll go up on a mountain, I'll fling myself off into space

I think I'll go up on a mountain, I'll fling myself off into space

I'm not doing it because I'm desperate, I'm just trying to save some space

If you ask me what my name is, I'll just stop and scratch my head

If you ask me what my name is, I'll just stop and scratch my head

Well they took away my name and gave me a number instead

Well all the things I used to know seem so far behind

There's a lot of new things that are running around my mind

I shall not always turn back at the corner

Retracing my steps with obedient feet

I shall shall stand there a moment to hear the wind blowing

Whisper of distances secret and dim

Away where the road has gone

Far past the corner

And then I shall go;

I won't always return

Though you wait in the lamplight quietly lifting

Your face to the glass of the window to see

Set out the table and lay the bread steaming

Leaving the oven to keep the room warm

 Take out my old bathrobe and warm woolen slippers

'For he will be cold after walking so long...'

And then you will hear

Faint wheels on the highway

Or is it the sound of the wind rushing by?

And you'll say, 'But he only went down to the corner;'

Just down to the corner, and he always comes home.'