Saint Stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes,
Country garden in the wind and the rain,
Wherever he goes the people all complain.

Stephen prospered in his time, well he may and he may decline.
Did it matter, does it now? Stephen would answer if he only knew how.
Wishing well with a golden bell, bucket hanging clear to hell,
Hell halfway twixt now and then,
Stephen fill it up and lower down and lower down again.

Lady finger, dipped in moonlight, writing "What for?" across the morning sky.
Sunlight splatters, dawn with answer, darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye.

Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow,

Sing with the song of Grateful Dead, St. Stephen lyrics!

What a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned.
Several seasons with their treasons,
Wrap the babe in scarlet colors, call it your own.
Did he doubt or did he try? Answers aplenty in the bye and bye,
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills,
One man gathers what another man spills.

Saint Stephen will remain, all he's lost he shall regain,
Seashore washed by the suds and foam,
Been here so long, he's got to calling it home.

Fortune comes a crawlin', calliope woman, spinnin' that curious sense of your own.
Can you answer? Yes I can. But what would be the answer to the answer man?

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american beauty anthem of the sun aoxomoxoa blues for allah built to last dead set dreamers europe '72 go to heaven grateful dead (skull & roses) grateful dead from the mars hotel history of the grateful dead, vol. 1 (be in the dark infrared roses my so-called life reckoning shakedown street steal your face terrapin station the grateful dead very best of grateful dead wake of the flood without a net workingman's dead Click here to view All Albums and Song Lyrics of Grateful Dead!