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Artist: Grateful Dead
Canonical path: /grateful-dead/dark-star
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Dark Star
Read Dark Star lyrics by Grateful Dead on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Dark Star
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Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes
Reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis
Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion
Shall we go, you and I while we can
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?
Mirror shatters in formless reflections of matter
Glass hand dissolving to ice petal flowers revolving
Lady in velvet recedes in the nights of good-bye
Shall we go, you and I while we can
Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?
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