Run For The Roses

Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia

Played regularly by the Jerry Garcia Band from 1982 onwards. These are the lyrics in Hunter's book "Box Of Rain":

Reach for the sun, catch hold of the moon
They're both too heavy but what can you do?
Reach for the stars, smack into the sky
You don't want to live but you're chicken to die
Chicken to die

Chorus
Run, run, run for the roses
Sooner it opens, the quicker it closes
Man, oh, man, oh friend of mine
All good things in all good time
All good things in all good time (note 1)

Reach for the rose, get caught on the briar
You're warming to love, next thing there's a fire
The trouble with love is its other face
You just want the cup, you don't want the race
No, you don't want the race

[chorus]

Run for the money, caught short on the rent
Big ideas but the money's all spent
If you got the do-re, I got the mi (note 2)
And I got a notion we're all at sea (note 3)
Yeah, we're all at sea

[chorus] (note 4)

Chorus
Run, run, run for the roses
Quicker it opens, the sooner it closes
Man, oh, man, oh friend of mine
All good things in all good time

Reach for the sun, catch hold of the moon
They're both too heavy but what can you do?
Reach for the stars, smack into the sky
You don't want to live but you're chicken to die
You're chicken to die

[chorus]

Run for the money, caught short on the rent
Big ideas but the cash is all spent
The trouble with love is its other face
You just want the cup, but you don't want the race
No, you don't want the race

[chorus]

Reach for the rose, get caught on the briar
You're warming to love, next thing there's a fire
If you got the do-re, I got the mi
And I got the notion we're all at sea
Yes, we're all at sea

[chorus]
[chorus]
[chorus]
All good things in all good time