![]() The "clown in the burying ground" suggests laughing in the face of death, perhaps even contemplating suicide. Ophelia is a character from Shakespears Hamlet who lost her mind. Here Althea spells out the singers troubles. Honest to the point of recklessness, self-centered in the extreme." You may meet the fate of Ophelia, sleeping and perchance to dream. ![]() You may be a clown in the burying ground, or just another pretty face. "You may be Saturday's child, all alone, moving with a tinge of grace. "Althea told me better cool down boy, settle back, easy Jim." In the next number of lines, the divine is speaking to him about his predicament: I told Althea that treachery was tearing me limb from limb." ![]() "I told Althea I was feeling lost, lacking in some direction.Īlthea told me upon scrutiny that my back might need protection. In the first three lines, the singer is describing his anguish to the divine: My sense of this song is that the singer is having a dialogue with the GODDESS/the divine in it's manifestation as TRUTH. And how so many times, we ultimately reject that path, we reject the guidance.Īlethea in Greek Mythology is the daughter of Zeus and is the personifiation of TRUTH. And on the process of having the divine speak to you and point out the path that can free you. The song Althea, one of my favorites by the amazing Jerry G and Robert Hunter, is a profound meditation on death, on world weariness, on the inner anguish that life can put you through and that your own mind can lead you to. Loose with the truth, maybe its your fire
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