Alice D Millionaire
Lyrics: Grateful Dead?
Music: Grateful Dead?
---------------------------------------------------
You say you're living in a world of trouble
All your schemes have popped like a bubble
Your mother told your sister
Now your brother told your friend
Now your secret's out, and you don't have to pretend
Your secret's out, it's really not the end
You're standing there with tears in your eyes
There's too much going on now, there's no time to cry
You say the walls are closing in on you child
All your friends have put you in exile
Bad luck seems to follow you all around the world
You can't seem to find no peace of mind girl
Indeciperable line
You're standing there with tears in your eyes
There's too much going on now, there's no time to cry
Every minute is a brand new day
And there are some games that I'd just love to play
Even bad scenes are for real, there's no time to cry
Since you left your old scene behind you
Go ahead and let the green light find you
It's warm and friendly girl and it won't blind you
Come out in the street and the wheels won't find you
See the love come here and feel it all around you
You're standing there with tears in your eyes
There's too much going on now, there's no time to cry
Your yesterday's are all left behind
There's a brand new light in your mind
You don't need the key to define
What's written on the magic sign
There's no time to cry
When the scenes run off a magic lantern
Is transformed into a funny pattern
And the wheel of fortune has a flat tire
You can't seem to get any higher
When you going for ... and you can't find a horseshoe
You're standing there with tears in your eyes
There's too much going on now, there's no time to cry
------------------------------------------------------------
This song is often listed as "No Time To Cry", but it seems that "Alice D Millionaire" is the correct title. It is refered to in Rock Scully, former manager of the Dead's book:
'I have to get back to San Franciso State. ... I get out there in time for the last song, "Alice D Millionaire," based on that wonderful headline in the San Francisco Chronicle when Owsley Stanley got busted for the first time. The headline read "LSD Millionaire Arrested."'