This might be the best song from the final batch of songs the band wrote in the 90s. Didnt appreciate it as much as a kid. Its a song the wisdom of years makes me appreciate

There were days when all we ever wanted was to learn and love and grow. Wow, just so gorgeous, an epitaph for Garcia-Hunter.

“Once we grew into our shoes, we told them where to go” paradoxical genius double entendre. “If the shoe fits wear it”, “tough shoes to fill”, “I envied the man with new shoes...”, “don’t criticize another until you’ve walked a mile in their moccasins “, “a shoe in”,”lost my boots in transit”, “walked barefoot in the snow”. Days Between is the most powerful 1990s Grateful Dead song written. Robert Hunter brilliance combined with Jerry Garcia forlorn emotion. Heavy dose of light.

@venniey

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

@stevenroberts3530

Жыл бұрын

Yes….strong observation. Just amazing lyrics played with extreme subtlety. Top shelf along with So Many Roads. Makes one wish they had another ten years or so…..

@morganmelis8009

Жыл бұрын

I loved hearing it because I felt like it was Hunter's sort of epitaph so to speak to Jerry imho....Once we grew into our shoes We told them where to go Walked halfway around the world On promise of the glow Stood upon a mountain top Walked barefoot in the snow Gave the best we had to give How much we'll never know we'll never know ⚡🌹🎸

@11BlackLamb

Жыл бұрын

When we were Young before our shoes really fit and we hadn't grown into them they told us where to go 👟👟 into sometimes dangerous learning adventures

@leirledero2675

Жыл бұрын

Waiting for the other shoe to drop (ducks) 🙏🙏🙏

Jerry, we love you more than words can tell

walked halfway round the world, on promise of the glow....... gave the best we had to give, how much we'll never know

@DianeDriver1

2 жыл бұрын

gave the best we had to give, how much we'll never know=====best line

tremendous composition it is said that this was Garcia's last composition before his passing....almost like he knew what was to happen.....

This is one of the songs that causes me to weep whenever I hear it.

@wofiam

3 жыл бұрын

It's pretty sad and dark.

@venniey

3 жыл бұрын

@@wofiam It’s much more than that. But there are some of us, maybe many, who lived it. We know.

@simonharris5061

3 жыл бұрын

Yep

@krisreed6251

2 жыл бұрын

Same. ❤⚡

@wofiam

2 жыл бұрын

@@venniey where were you at that time. I just came from a rainbow and just arrived in bethel

This was one of the greatest Dead tunes...and still is. They turned out excellence till the end.

First time hearing this song after watching Long Strange Trip. It's beautiful and heart wrenching. Makes me sad and happy at the same time. Love to all and peace in the valley.

Oh, many of us know exactly what this song says. Deeply.

A long and forgotten tune. Smiles at the moon. Blood boils to butterflies. Which then transfers the tune to all of the new fresh breed eager to hear. Blue Cheer My Dear or just another bus driving by. The Sun Rises as the Good Cry comes. Tears will always fall for the great ones. I love you Jerry and all who love you and all who have yet to discover you and all who will never know of you.

@simonharris1776

3 ай бұрын

I hit the subscribe button. ❤

hypnotized for this song is 'IT', hit me when I first heard it i broke down in tears...still do, TY Jerry, for they are tears of joy and gratefulness :), no regrets for the road i travelled, as said in so many posts some things u cannot beg borrow or steal....YOU HAVE TO EXPERIENCE IT in all its glory and tragedy and its always YOUR TRIP...so have good one and help others along who aren't so blessed...PEACE

@markoblazney6360

6 жыл бұрын

his swan song+ sigh

I was at Dead & Company last nite and Bob Weir sang this so beatifully. Made it even better there was this heat lighting behind the stage. An amazing experience and Bob was so on his game last nite.

@markoblazney6360

6 жыл бұрын

cool. very cool.

@joshua_forrest

5 жыл бұрын

That's awesome, I'm currently sitting on porch watching some heat lightning and I thought this song would be great right now! We must be kindred spirits lol I just saw D&C few weeks ago, best show I've ever seen!

@sammaddry3207

5 жыл бұрын

If you're talking about boulder night 2 i was on the floor to the left Ya bob kills it on this song.

@sammaddry3207

5 жыл бұрын

Oh... Your post is 2 years old My b

@davidwilcove8846

3 жыл бұрын

@@sammaddry3207 mee to......powerful

Still makes me cry. Just losing a friend. She and I traveled with the Dead. Backstage with Jerry. He was the best.

Hearing this on the day after Jerry's 25th birthday in heaven. This song is truly heavenly!! Missing Jerry bigtime. I'm really glad Dead and company are continuing the legacy and imho doing it great justice. But there will always be just one Jerry!!

By far my most favorite Jerry song ever!

My mother was diagnosed with cancer and this song really hits deep as she fades away.

Not sure we were ready for this when they started playing it. Turned out to be quite the Opus. Beautiful.

I read these lyrics before getting the opportunity to hear them in proper tune due to that current state of being and time of life. I delt with unexpected displacement and separation from society by our judicial system. Gratefully these words and others from these particular fellas made time enjoyable enough to pass gracefully. So Grateful!

@hobgoblin6659

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service. ✌❤

During the last years of the boys, easily, easily my favorite song. I would lose my collective mind when I’d hear this start up live.

Go easy Robert, your words tell our story.

The EMOTION he has in his voice here is just ... I'm..speechless. Never heard this version before.

@DianeDriver1

2 жыл бұрын

the best

Perfect song for today. 08/04/21

Greatest Grateful Dead 💀 ballad by Jerry Garcia amazing composition. Greatly structured song. Beautiful lyrics.

I saw 326 show while Jerry was still alive, and yes there were many days between... Some things you can replace and others you cannot.

Beautiful. There were, and still are days. The dead live still and again.

"Days Between" cleanses my soul.

This is tearing me up inside....miss u Jerry, everyday!

@chynnadawl9022

2 жыл бұрын

Every single time.😥

Truly a masterpiece from Robert and Jerry. It reaches into your soul. So glad I blessed the opportunity to hear it live. Sam Boyd Stadium was a great show, ......but so hot! Thank you Jerry and Robert, until we meet again.

These words hit deep...life is just flying by. Summer flies and August dies, the world grows dark and mean...remember the days between

@chynnadawl9022

2 жыл бұрын

Sobbing~again.

to me this was about the transition from the early days to the later days. from when the parking lots were clean to the filth that was so casually left behind. from when we were free because of our thoughts of peace love and understanding to the doubt that these thoughts may not be enough. a very moving piece, indeed. only you and me can rise above and maintain the glory of the early days and make them the glory of the now. only you and me.

@glyn420

7 жыл бұрын

You mean those wonderful early times like altamont? always been n unhinged edge to this band and its followers. dead heads are not hippies though many hippies were heads.

@JohnBorland

5 жыл бұрын

The Grateful Dead didn’t play at Altamont. Because of the violence and overall negative scene. But parking lots were always a mess I think.

@nedrobinson7490

2 жыл бұрын

The future’s here, we are it, we are on our own… NFA 💛

Always the days between, thank you for reminding us all Jerry! Love!

Gave the best we had to give. How much, we'll never know.

The lyrics of this Masterpiece are literally the culmination of the era, remind me of the shows where people died up in Vermont or wherever, people crashing gates and dying. I walked past a guy, at the last show the Dead played before Soldier's Field, with a guy crying out for his Mom, from 50 feet down a broken gulley of granite stones in the pitch black after the show. Nobody cared as they walked past. "Mooooooooooooom. Moooooooom" This reminds me of the devolution of Dead shows, Bread and Puppet, the whole incredibly beautiful scene of the 60s turning into something rapist and broken and fucked, not knowing what they mean as they inperpret and indulge and go into darkness with the freedom that these visionaries lived and then lost sight of themselves. EDIT: And no, I'm ashamed to say I didn't go down the gulley to help the guy, either.

@JediRastafari

Жыл бұрын

First of all, I was at THIS show as a 19yr old. This song hit me hard. Then, about a half year later, I saw them in Vegas when people died from heat exhaustion & dehydration in 120°F heat. I was almost one of those people but the heads around me guided me over to a water hose over by the bleachers which is where I was given a new life which I'm still living. But this performance here tonight has got to be one of the best, if not THE BEST version of Days Between.

Stunning song. The meaning goes way beyond what wen know.

RIP Robert Hunter who wrote this and many more Dead songs.

Hauntingly beautiful, "...phantom ships...lonely cries..."

“The last, great Hunter/Garcia masterpiece.”

Back home in Florida and still feeling Chicago. This song was ethereal on Sunday, 7/5/15.

@operationstayalive

9 жыл бұрын

Jim G yes! haunting and sublimely beautiful song, the words, and bob's voice are still echoing in my head from that field... really, without sounding hokey, like a song from beyond. jerry was just getting warmed up when he passed, this being the last one he and hunter wrote, well the future of music waits where he left off.

@DelsinM

9 жыл бұрын

Jim G Totally unexpected and beautiful that night...I expected Morning Dew or something, but it was somehow perfect, even with Weir's imperfect voice...Jerry's wasn't perfect either...what's perfect is the idea and power and beauty behind the music

@DelsinM

9 жыл бұрын

+Delsin Menolascino On the other hand, the Dead's performance of this on 7/5/15 was absolutely astounding, and Bob Weir put his whole soul into it. Trey was just amazed as it went down.

Best Garcia / Hunter song ever 🌞🌞

Haunting and beautiful

"And the world grows dark and mean" Takes its time, don't it? Only the Moody Blues could conjure up eyelid movies as this one does. 'So Many Roads' version rules!

that... that was fucking awesome!

Beautiful version of a powerful song.

This song was too much for me at shows. There was no rebound from this. It took me down down down. Like laying in a casket hearing the dirt pouring down on top.

@rafikhazaei

Жыл бұрын

thats the spirit

@11BlackLamb

Жыл бұрын

It got you knocking on heaven's door you should have gone through

@TheSchmidt62

Жыл бұрын

They played it last night 7/16/23. Their last show, of their final tour..

@jtcourtney8858

11 ай бұрын

@@TheSchmidt62 I love the Jerry versions the best. Almost every version is different in some way.

@michaelfriese431

11 ай бұрын

Grateful…. Such a beautiful and heartfelt gift this song is… I can see why it wouldn’t suit your mood if you wanted a lively song… there were songs that weren’t my favorites when I was touring but I enjoy them so much now… I hope someday you will feel the emotion and sweet sentimentality in this song… it feels to me like Jerry is showing us part of his soul. There were days I know when all we ever wanted was to learn and love and grow.

Beautiful song have a greatful day.

all we ever wanted was to live ,love and grow ! gave the best we had to give how much well never know

Thank you, Mr. Garcia and Mr. Hunter

Great Hunter/Garcia tune, SB quality...thanks for posting.

Deer Creek '93, I'll never forget.

awesome version...love the lead at the end...sounds so unnatural in parts for Jerry!!! Awesome!!!

Fond memories. Thank you Jerry.

Such a beautiful song

If this doesn’t remind you of current times and pull at heart strings, I don’t know what does. But there will be amazing days in the future after these that come between.

This version is sooooo good. Again, how can one compare the days between? If anyone in the distant future is reading now this, hey, how you doin'? I'm OK, I guess.

@chrisschuth9094

8 жыл бұрын

I'm doing good just read this had to respond today was a tragedy 21 years ago even tho I never saw Jerry in person I connected with him thru the music and my life has never been the same NFA

@Joshua-lx4ck

7 жыл бұрын

Mark OBLAZNEY (;

@weirbobby5899

7 жыл бұрын

love and light fam

@claymationwaves

6 жыл бұрын

you dont have to compare this is easily the best version by faaaaaar

@Spacecowboy42

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Mark. I'm fine, I suppose. Hope this finds you well.

Great song... One of my favorites!! \

prophecy in a song ...of these days ..now

Covid anthem written years before, in the Days Between. The finest ever seen

@oilyshoes9969

10 ай бұрын

Covid ?

Happy birthday Jerome J. Garcia!!!!!!!!!!!

this is my favorite version of this song and my favorite song

When phantom ships with phantom sails Set to sea on phantom tides

one of their last gems......

Beautiful song

did all three nites @ the knickerbocker in albany ,ny ....great run!!!!

Feel privileged to have seen dead 50 and dead and company play this legendary song. NfA

This song is so lovely but it hurts my heart as well.

dark, scary, dead... warlocks and parking lots for life

@jasonbrinker788

3 жыл бұрын

Yes sir/ma'am

Man may not have had the world to give never the less has made my word infinitley larger and richer. Happy B Day 2018!

The finest ever seen 💜💜💜

shed a tear still

The last solo here is dangerous.

There were great fucking days

@b.patrickbrowning2349

7 жыл бұрын

Rinomo Morris Best. Reply. Ever.

@comicwarrior69

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for saying that. I needed to know someone else remembered that today. Bless you.

Jerry's saddest song IMO

If you going through something you are not alone ❤

If you were there, this is our lives...don't forget our ways so we can pass it on.

aint that the truth! god I love the raw honesty and ominous sound of old and things that you can't forget ...... the lingering omniety

I know exactly what this means especially in my life right now the days seem so short but so long I just wish it would end I just wish I was happy I wish I was over her I wish I'd didn't think about her but I do

Feels. Recently visited Washington dc after dead and co in Bristow never felt this more......heavy

Please don't hate. This is beautiful and my purvue is ALWAYS with "the man" - Jerry Garcia simply surpasses in every sense of what an interesting and engaging musician can be and achieve - without question - case closed - BUT (and I NEVER in my wildest imagination thought there'd come the situation wherein I were to say) BOB WEIR's version that's a live soundstage recording with the arrangement being mostly piano on lead - KICKS THIS ONE's ASS -.. This one with Jerry is "nice", "spooky", "a great homage to himself", "classic" and all the other descriptions that I do not deny.. BUT - Weir's is SO much more emotional and evocative of the passed years these men spent together, it achieves a sort of spiritual perfection.. BECAUSE of his place on the stage as "the other one " his voice relaxes into its own and doesn't strain to BE anything more than Bob Weir. And for that reason his musicsl-subconscious-emotional perspective channels the decades of the Dead and it reads as a dream or a personal episode of life flashing before ones eyes not AT death - but at some point before.. His acceptance of, and calm gentleness in relation to the bittersweet theme conveys TO all of us not only THEIR experience and HIS OWN - but also ALL OF.OURS'.. SEE - WE WERE THE DEAD TOO.. JUST AS MUCH AND IN SOME WAYS MORE THAN THE BAND.. A COLLECTIVE OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF EXPERIENCES, LIVES, DEATHS, LOVES, AND GREAT MUSIc experiences

@glyn420

7 жыл бұрын

No Fucking Way! I agree it is the only Jerry ballad Bob doesn't completely ruin but better than this NO WAY IN HELL.

@bukido22

6 жыл бұрын

link?

@bukido22

6 жыл бұрын

kev-in burke link to Bob’s version?

@219mars

2 жыл бұрын

@@glyn420 yeah fuck that shit i mean all do respect to Bob but he's always been and will always be in the shadow of one of the greatest musicians of our time i got to see the grateful dead 52 times '89 to '95 and Bob had his moments for sure but he always came off as cheese man hard pressed to have soul even now with this song its hard to watch because its like he's trying too hard i love the heart he puts into greatest story ever told or promised land even looks like rain but he just doesn't have the soul to carry a song like days between, attics, to lay me down, wharf rat, ripple, or any Jerry ballad in my humble opinion its like comparing the soul to cheese maaaaan that's something you either have or you don't and forget about the new cheese whiz mr. your body is a wonderland b.s. still haven't gone to a d&c show cause of it i'd probably throw up and walkout from the blasphemy anyways you're correct idk what kind of brown acid homeboy did to try and say a Weir version kicks Jerry's ass but he trippin yo

Greatness moves across the vast American expanse Continental drifters making gold records Busking eternal neon street corners Crooning tales of mountain witches and vengeance West Virginia coal camp dust Kicking busted floorboards Down the hillbilly highway and back Stringing stacatoed 16th notes From the southern Appalachian trail Pine sap Georgia box car tunes Florida sweaty swamps, south Carolina coastal dunes, Back up through the Cumberland gap, Ol traditions runneth deep... That place where, Irish, African-American, and Native American all meet- Where Elvis learned to stomp his feet, Jerry Lee to pound the keys, Rual music and indigenous music, and the pioneer spirit of young post war America built Rock and roll.... It's spirit still lingers today....

6/24/95 RFK Days Between is best imho. Love that version

your the only guy I ever heard call him Trips, Garcia hated that etiquette

8:37 I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.

crying like a baby here....

Perfect.

They were going to become really great again if Jerry was still alive in 95-2000s. They finally hit on a new direction after losing Brent.

Awesome

Seeing Dead and Company now makes me glad the days between Jerry's death and a new Dead Experience are officially behind us ✌

i love the new shit

Summer flies and August dies... ...and the WORLD grows DARK and MEAN! 😞

HEY NOW PT! THIS SOLO ROCKS. GO JERRY!

@gregory251976 you got it spot on.....was going to comment but can't think of a better description.

Greets from Worms 😘

The image suits the song

And yet again...😪

exactly!

I was there!

Does anyone have any info on the art for this video? The Horseman?

Transcendant.

Anyone know which painting of headless horseman this is?