Attics Of My Life

Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia

In the attics of my life
Full of cloudy dreams unreal
Full of tastes no tongue can know
And lights no eye can see
When there was no ear to hear
You sang to me

I have spent my life
Seeking all that's still unsung
Bent my ear to hear the tune
And closed my eyes to see
When there were no strings to play
You played to me

In the book of love's own dreams
Where all the print is blood
Where all the pages are my days
And all my lights grow old

When I had no wings to fly
You flew to me
You flew to me

In the secret space of dreams
Where I dreaming lay amazed
When the secrets all are told
And the petals all unfold
When there was no dream of mine
You dreamed of me

Grateful Dead Recordings
	Date	Album
	studio 1970	American Beauty
	15 May 1970	Road Trips Vol 3 No 3 (early show)
	6 Jun 1970	American Beauty (note 1)
	24 Oct 1970	Dave's Picks Volume 51
	27 Dec 1970	30 Days Of The Dead (2016)
	27 Sep 1972	Dick's Picks Vol 11
	9 Oct 1989	Warlocks Box
	16 Oct 1989	Nightfall Of Diamonds
	30 Mar 1990	Spring 1990 (note 2)
	12 Jun 1992	30 Days Of The Dead (2024)
	5 Jul 2015	Fare Thee Well (CD and DVD) (note 3)

(Plus live recordings by The Dead, Furthur, Ratdog, Phil Lesh & Friends etc not listed here. See Grateful Dead Family Discography for a full list.)

Other Recordings
	Date	Album	Recorded By
	2000	Dead Grass	Vassar Clements
	2001	Gratefully Yours	Jim Hudak
	2004	Werewolves Of Atlanta: Halloween 2004	Dark Star Orchestra
	2007	At Fine Arts Center, UMass	The American Beauty Project
	2010	At Page Auditorium, Duke University	The American Beauty Project
	2013	Keys	Keller Willams
	2013	Harpin' On The Dead	Anela Lauren
	2015	Larry Campbell & Theresa Williams	Larry Campbell & Theresa Williams
	2015	It's A Hand-Me-Down	David Gans
	2015	Ready For Love	T Sisters
	2015	Songs Of Their Own	Midnight North
	2015	Grateful Jazz	Jazz Is Dead
	2016	Songs To Fill The Air (WFMU Pledge Drive)	William Tyler
	2016	Day Of The Dead	Angel Olsen
	2018	Dead Songs Vol 2	Barton Hills Choir
	2019	Dead Air	Lowland Hum

Notes
(1) included as a bonus track on remastered album, first released as part of the box set The Golden Road (1965-1973)
(2) also on the compilation So Glad You Made It
(3) also on the compilation Best Of Fare Thee Well.

Further Information
For an online discussion of the lyrics to this song see the deadsongs.vue conference on The Well.
For more information on recordings see Matt Schofield's Grateful Dead Family Discography
For information on references in the lyrics see David Dodd's Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
For David Dodd's discussion of this song on dead.net see Greatest Stories Ever Told
For online chords and TAB see www.rukind.com
For sheet music, see:
          Grateful Dead Anthology Volume 2 (piano arrangement)
          Grateful Dead Songbook Volume 1 (piano arrangement)
          Garcia/Hunter Songbook (vocal line and chords/TAB)