🎵 Reach out your hand if your cup be empty , If your cup is full may it be again 🎵 We're taking 2020 home and offering up new hope for 2021 with the video premiere of "Ripple." Beautifully animated by Actuality Films, the video brings a Tarot card reading to life as it tells the story of The Fool crossing paths with The Muse, The Magician and The Devil. Can you spot the myriad of Easter eggs drawn from Grateful Dead lyrics and lore?
Wow, thought I was old fashioned for still being attached to Pamela Coleman Smith's art in the ol Rider-Waite deck. So wonderful and resonant! Where I dreaming lay amazed 💙🌍☄
My friend of 30 years was the most devoted Deadhead. He passed away in April. He loved this song. I play it for him everyday. I hope he hears it. Can't believe he's gone.
I've listened to this so many times, yet there is still more to find in this song. Thanks for highligting those words. Of course I've heard them before but, seeing these words just now, they took on a deeper meaning for me.
@@merilevanah968 that had to be an amazing moment! 30 yrs ago I was homeless at18 and a friend raised their voice for that line while singing this song to me, makes the hair on my arms stand up.
I told my brother to “be quiet” when he told me he wanted this played at his funeral. I didn’t want to think he would ever not be here. His life was far too short but he left behind a legacy of kindness and generosity. We had so many wonderful times listening to the GD. I’m so thankful for this music to bring memories of my brother back.
Just turned 71 today - this beautiful song has been playing as the background music of my life since I discovered it in 1973. Thanks to Jerry and the Dead for this timeless tune. "If I knew the way, I would take you home" Mark
For those of you who were not alive at the time this song was written, it captures time. A time when there was far more social unity, where we looked at each other and smiled, where those of us who 'got it' shined brightly, and then showed others the way to live, love, and share our lives. That is what this song is about. Spread the life, the love, the joy of being.
@@davidferrara1105 Majority of teenagers were high often and mom was on Valium and diet pills. Drug addicted generation. And yes nam. Wasn’t life grand😝
Only learned in the past year, after listening to this song and this album for over 50 years, that the bridge, "Ripple in still water/when there is no pebble tossed/nor wind to blow," is exactly 17 syllables- a haiku. Robert Hunter never fails to amaze.
My nephew passed 3 days after Thanksgiving 2022. We’re still trying to give thanks and move forward. Christian but all with belief… please come along…. Your prayers are welcome and I’ll definitely do the same. God bless you all.
My dad passed away a month ago. We were very very close. He loved this song and so did I. He said it was his favorite song ever. He said he followed GD very closely during his life. Thank you to this band. I am now getting into the Grateful Dead because it reminds me of my dad.
lost my dad in 2022 same day jerry passed, my mom was born on jerrys birthday,mybe it started in the womb but idk. i always tell people,if ur gonna get into the dead ,start with american beauty.......thats the stuff i remember my dad playing on 8track,,,i can recall the times we spent in a boat ,fishin,chillin ,and jammin......ship of fools was her name...,,that songs still hard to listen to,,,i found goose doin a version of ship of fools and it breaks me in the most beautiful way...........i love you dad
One year ago today my brother passed away at the age of 48. The priest asked if there was any song we would like to play. His wife and daughter immediately said Ripple and Father Mike broke out singing it word for word. Yes Father Mike is a Dead Head!!!
I’m in my 50’s & I just got into the Dead yesterday. It was a gift from another realm. I don’t know what got into me. I finally get them all of a sudden. This song is magical.
It’s an amazing thing isn’t it? It happened to me in my early twenties seemingly out of the blue. Suddenly I had to catch up and hear it all. Amazing soulful and beautiful music.
When I heard Ripple for the first time, I was convinced that I already knew the song. It was part of my soul before Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia created it and Grateful Dead played it. Exceptionally beautiful tune.
Dam almost 30 years since Jerry passed away I still remember that day like. It was. Yesterday I never got to go on tour but I have always loved the music and i would be leing if i said it didn't influence my love of music
It also is the song in the movie "Mask" that Cher is listening to when she finds her son Rocky dead in his bed and holds him crying. It continues to play as she desperately destroys the house looking for any drugs she may have stashed and getting her aggression and anguish out. What a great goddamned movie that was. Times were so much more simple and hopeful in 1985. It seems like we were more conscience of how much others meant to us then. And when it's over, it's over so fast and final it stuns. Today people are much more concerned about self needs and wants. They will walk all over another human being to get temporary moments of what they think is happiness. The point of life is to leave your footprint, your ripple, your influence and best example to as many people as possible. That's the only way to truly live forever. Make sure our reputation and example touch enough people to not die with us!
I used to softly sing this song to my first daughter after the 2::00 am feeding. She would fuss and take some time to calm down before she would fall asleep. At her wedding, 22 years later, this is the song she choose for the father/bride dance. There was one table in the back of the large room where all my college friends were seated together. When the song started, the whole table of friends cheered and then began to sing along. The rest of the room was mystified about what was going on. My daughter and I shared huge smiles and tears as we danced together in the middle of the dance floor. So there’s a real special place in my heart and soul for this song. 🖖🏻❤️
The lyrics: There is a road, no simple highway Between the dawn and the dark of night And if you go, no one may follow That path is for your steps alone give me goosebumps (and make me tear up); unbelievably beautiful words.
One of the most beautiful songs ever, from the greatest band ever. I know it's an opinion, so many will disagree with me, but if they do disagree, they are wrong 😀. Peace fam.
I put my father in the ground some thirty plus years ago while this song played... and in 2017 I scattered my brother's ashes into a high cold mountain stream and watched them travel a beautiful path in the glorious mountains that are some of God's finest sculpture'in. Belay on brother...
Thanks for sharing your love and support with the ones that left to soon 💖wife and attend many GD concerts we had so many memories of our lives together and yes she passed away this summer 💔it's been without my soulmate . But the memories I will always have Thanks for sharing your story .We together 47yrs and I was looking so forward to 50. Love the memories Al
During my first LSD trip I listened to this and posted “I finally understand Grateful Dead”, and my grandpa Liked it (RIP Pappap ❤️). I still wonder to this day if he knew what I was talking about… lol
My friend, it deeply touches my heart to read your comment. I believe not only did he understood, I'm sure when he was in your position when the dead were really around. I hope that brings comfort. ⚜🕊💕 (English was not my first language tabarnak)
Dear Grateful Dead, I just got into classic rock and came across you guys. I love your music! I watched a documentary about you guys and I was fascinated with your journey and your accomplishments as a group. Although I haven’t known The Grateful Dead for long, I still want to thank you for the joy and happiness you gave to the world.
Robert Hunter is the most underrated lyricist from the 60s and this song is one of his best. This song from beginning to end flows like water and the experience of listening to it is truly spiritual. Songs like this never get old.
I think he's the most over-rated. Some of his songs are pretty good, even very good, but people who put him in the same league with Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Townes van Zandt or Paul Simon aren't thinking straight. This particular lyric is kind of aimless and confused, but the melody is really nice, so it works
@@joemarshall4226I respectfully disagree. No hard feelings, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, thus no one is right or wrong. Peace and love brother.
@@joemarshall4226 When you're inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, be sure to let everyone there know that Hunter was a quack. Those without musical ability criticize those who do.
My brother passed away yesterday after a battle with leukemia. This song sings of self awareness, and acceptance. This is for him, and also for me, when my time approaches
It's my brother Peter's birthday today..He passed away last year..He loved the Grateful Dead and went to several of their concerts..Ripple was one of his favorite songs.
I write to whoever it was that made this video: do not make this a one time thing. do broken palace. do bertha. do dark star do literally everything you have the creative ability to do. This video is so incredibly gorgeous, and thought out, and to the core. It is all the things i love about the grateful dead and life.
I heard it as a lullaby from my parents. It caught my attention recently as a song that I always knew but never had a name for. It's a song about creation and life, and so vivid in it's imagery that one can't help but contemplate death. The Road, no simple highway, is the growth to a new self, and inevitably the slow death of your old self that had not yet travelled The Road.
Someone I care about just lost her baby. I woke up with this song in my head. I never listen to the Grateful Dead, but here it is. The perfect song for the hardest kind of loss. May the lyrics ripple out, carrying our shared humanity forever.
I just discovered the Grateful Dead in Christmas of 2021 when my mother got me a shirt with the bands logo on it. I absolutely love the music, and it feels magical and calming. The Grateful Dead is probably one of the best bands I’ve ever heard. Thanks for the music.
@@yurbeeinwatched If you listened to it for years, and found the message, you are a Head. You don’t have to tell anyone that this was written for you….
What a beautiful, yet sad , yet peaceful song .. my husband turned me on to GD back in 1973.. this was played at his memorial.. every august 7th I play this song . I love you JPW .. until we meet again- “if it takes a thousand lifetimes I’ll find you” please baby find me when I’m there ❤
A year ago my dad passed away and grateful dead was the band he raised me and my brothers on, every ride to the store or for a family vk the car would be blasting grateful dead no matter what, when this song played he told us just to sit and listen, but I'm glad he did since he passed this is go to song when I'm having a rough day to let everything out but everytime i hear "if i knew the way i would take you home" makes me ball, because if I could i would of taken him home, im so thankful my dad had 51 trips around the sun, but I will forever have the memories he made with me with the band
First heard this song some 55-56 years ago in the Filmore East. I recall it was the wee hours of the morning. The Dead had played through the night, segueing easily from one son to another. When the set was over we walked out into the streets of New York City as the sun was rising over the buildings' concrete canyon. My body/mind/spirit has rarely felt that clean, that clear. Special and Unique Warlocks
I learned to play this on mandolin when my father died. It is the only Dead song I have ever listened to. Every time I listen to it, I am reminded of father and our friendship and falling out. Wherever you are dad, thanks for the music. I’m holding it down and reminding everyone to dance instead of fight.
I have just listened this song for the first time and I fall in love with it... Pure magic and love! And what a wonderful wonderful animated video this is. Million thanks for the upload!
To say this year has been tough, would be an understatement. I've dealt with a lot, I'm sure we all have. We're still here, and hopefully each day it will get better. The Grateful Dead has pretty much been my soundtrack this year, I am very grateful for their music.
This was my gateway song to get my youngest daughter into the Grateful Dead. She was halfway to being a hippie anyway, so I feel I have succeeded as a parent.
Abuser of souls. "“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea." Jesus Christ Mark 9:42
LYRICS: If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music? Would you hold it near as it were your own? It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken Perhaps they're better left unsung I don't know, don't really care Let there be songs to fill the air Ripple in still water When there is no pebble tossed Nor wind to blow Reach out your hand if your cup be empty If your cup is full, may it be again Let it be known there is a fountain That was not made by the hands of men There is a road, no simple highway Between the dawn and the dark of night And if you go, no one may follow That path is for your steps alone Ripple in still water When there is no pebble tossed Nor wind to blow You who choose to lead must follow But if you fall, you fall alone If you should stand, then who's to guide you? If I knew the way I would take you home La da da da...
A Dead tribute band I follow around the Northeast played this on my birthday a few weeks ago as an encore.. my wife and I, both under the influence of psilocybin, held each other and sang it to each other.. it was such a powerful moment I started crying. Thank you so fucking much Jerry.. you saved my life..
Easily one of my favourite songs and definitely one of the best tunes ever written. I can't even put what I felt about it into words, but I always thought there is something very special in this song, something noble and untouched. To me, it's like an anthem that tries to convey the true meaning of life.
got my youngest grandson hooked on this song last spring. He lives in Idaho and we had done a drive through the beautiful mountains. I will have that memory for the rest of my life and hopefully so will he
New Years Eve 1970-1. Rancho Mirage California. Our folks had gone to play boring golf all day and took change of clothes for their New Years dance. My twin and cousin and I took the opportunity to drop acid for the first time and had American Beauty on replay as we sat out on deck chairs. About three hours in this girl from down the street came over and switched it to the Box of Rain side. Been a Deadhead ever since.
@@florencemae618 There is no Jesus and no deities. It is "love" that will see us through. Love is a human construct, a human emotion. It may indeed be simply brain chemistry, but so be it. Grow up, Florence. There is no more room for childish notions of deities.
August 9th, 2021. After 9 days of celebrating Jerry's 80th, I reminisced of the 50 years of joy I've received from Jerry's music, and his spirit! Good night, God bless.
This little tune was written by Robert Hunter, in a hotel room in London, the same afternoon my long lost sweetheart and I met not far away, in London, and truth be told, I actually stumbled upon such a spring, or fountain, far away, in the North Cascades Mountains of Washington, years later. Make of this what you will...
We played this for my dad's celebration of life this past July. We lost him over Easter. This song plays every morning giving us a moment in time together. I miss him dearly everyday. One thing I have learned from this experience is to notarize your will!!!
“Let it be known there is a fountain that was not made by the hands of men” [from “Ripple”]. That’s pretty much my favorite line I ever wrote, that’s ever popped into my head. And I believe it, you know? -Robert Hunter
I never cared for the greatful dead in my first 38 years....then I fell in love with a beautiful human being who happened to love them. We were at a memorial for a friend and other friends played this song n we both just cried in each other's faces. A memory I'll never relinquish. Truly beautiful song.
GD is the life embodied as a group of people who made and played music together. No words to adequately describe the meaning and profoundness of GD has for me.
I can still remember listening to "one from the vault" in 1991. I was 22, never done drugs or anything yet. I was sitting in my apartment listening to "the other one" & suddenly it clicked for me. At that point I turned on to what folks love about the dead & got it too! It started to make musical sense to me on an intuitive level (I'm no musician!) Like a secret code that's out in the open
Jerry's voice sounds so beautiful in this song, it nearly brings me to tears. I love Jerry so intensely. The coolest thing about him, i feel, is that he truly was one of us, singing and playing his heart out for us all, making our lives richer and more beautiful, letting us forget our troubles and stresses for a moment, and celebrate being alive. I will appreciate and love him til the day i die.
I played this song to my new born the night she was born, 3.5 years ago in the hospital to calm her to sleep. Ever since she has to hear it at least once during bedtime and is obsessed with GD and Bob Marley. Peace and Love Child!
My grandma used to sing this to me when I would stay the night with her without my brothers, after my grandpa passed away. She adopted my mom and she was in her late 70’s. It wasn’t later on in life that I remembered this was the song. I was about 5 years old. ❤
I agree with Jason mohney!! I was thinking the same exact thing that the vinyl at the end sounded awesome! Anything that the dead does is awesome. They have never let me down.
I can’t put into words how much I miss you. Life’s unfair, and I still can’t comprehend the fact you’re not coming home. Life doesn’t feel worth living without you here.
Mark your calendars! We have a surprise planned for Thursday 12/17 at Noon ET / 9am PT. David and Gary will be there! Will you? Click "🔔 Set reminder" so you don't miss out on the action.
@Teri_L aka Ancient Voices aka Amber Highland from The Cartomancer Magazine would more than LOVE to write the guidebook for the official GD Tarot deck...if you're ever considering putting one out. TY!!
I thought of Pigpen seeing the Alligator on the Wheel at the end there. Very well done video.. does justice to one of the greatest acoustic tunes of all time. RIP Jerry, Pig, Brent , Keith, Hunter and Barlow.. and all the rest of the GD family no longer on this fucked up rock...
I walked across country 16 times on foot with no money just a wild edible plant book and published my story homeless called the diary of a drifter by Steven Roof 🙏 I love all of this family ❤️ I always will the flower children family will always have a place in my heart ❤️ always
The beginning lyrics “if my words did glow with the gold of sunshine” is pure poetry, the whole song is. I remember falling in love with this song as a little kid watching the movie “the mask” with Eric Stoltz. This song was perfect for that time in the film, it was so sad but also happy and accepting
Not gonna lie...this song has ALWAYS nailed me right in the feels. When this video got to the Dire Wolf the tears just started pouring out of my eyes. I miss you Dean dogg..."Sleep in the stars."
@@g.banderas1242 I do too. I don't know the exact process because I think we may learn that (or not) when we cross over and or return to the universe. Like being born back into the materials we came from. "We are strardust. We are golden." I honestly believe that.
I'm 67 yrs old , traveled this globe mail boats from Southampton to Africa 1950s to 64... Back to UK... Untill 1973, left UK to merchant ships... I never found a home... To this very day. Thom in Scotland.
