Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Jerry Garcia
All the years combineNotes
They melt into a dream
A broken angel sings
From a guitar (note 1)
In the end there's just a song
Comes crying up the night
Through all the broken dreams (note 2)
And vanished years
Stella Blue
Stella Blue
When all the cards are down
There's nothing left to see
There's just the pavement left
And broken dreams
In the end there's still that song (note 3)
Comes crying like the wind
Down every lonely street
That's ever been
Stella Blue
Stella Blue
I've stayed in every blue light cheap hotel
Can't win for trying
Dust off those rusty strings just one more time
Gonna make them shine (note 4)
It all rolls into one
And nothing comes for free
There's nothing you can hold
For very long
And when you hear that song
Come crying like the wind
It seems like all this life
Was just a dream
Stella Blue
Stella Blue
Grateful Dead Recordings | |||||
Date | Album | ||||
16 Jul 1972 | 30 Days Of The Dead (2021) | ||||
21 Jul 1972 | Download Series Vol 10 | ||||
25 Aug 1972 | Dave's Picks Volume 24 | ||||
9 Sep 1972 | Dave's Picks Volume 46 | ||||
studio 1973 | Wake Of The Flood | ||||
24 Mar 1973 | Dave's Picks Volume 32 | ||||
28 Mar 1973 | Dave's Picks Volume 16 | ||||
2 Apr 1973 | Dave's Picks Volume 21 | ||||
20 May 1973 | Here Comes Sunshine | ||||
10 Jun 1973 | Here Comes Sunshine | ||||
24 Jun 1973 | Pacific Northwest '73-'74 | ||||
7 Sep 1973 | Dave's Picks Volume 38 (bonus disc) | ||||
8 Sep 1973 | Dave's Picks Volume 38 | ||||
19 Oct 1973 | Dick's Picks Vol 19 | ||||
25 Oct 1973 | 30 Days Of The Dead (2021) | ||||
30 Oct 1973 | Listen To The River: St Louis '71 '72 73 | ||||
10 Nov 1973 | Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings | ||||
17 Nov 1973 | Dave's Picks Volume 5 | ||||
20 Nov 1973 | Road Trips Volume 4, Number 3 | ||||
2 Dec 1973 | Dick's Picks Vol 14 | ||||
4 Dec 1973 | Winterland 1973 - The Complete Recordings (bonus disc) | ||||
19 Dec 1973 | Dick's Picks Vol 1 | ||||
23 Feb 1974 | Dave's Picks Volume 42 (note 5) | ||||
21 May 1974 | Pacific Northwest '73-'74 | ||||
18 Jun 1974 | Road Trips Number 2, Volume 3 | ||||
5 Aug 1974 | Dick's Picks Vol 31 | ||||
10 Sep 1974 | Dick's Picks Vol 7 | ||||
17 Oct 1974 | Grateful Dead Movie (video, DVD and CD) | ||||
20 Oct 1974 | Steal Your Face | ||||
11 Jun 1976 | June 1976 Box Set | ||||
15 Jun 1976 | June 1976 Box Set | ||||
24 Sep 1976 | Dave's Picks Vol 4 | ||||
2 Oct 1976 | 30 Days Of The Dead (2017) | ||||
10 Oct 1976 | Dick's Picks Vol 33 | ||||
30 Apr 1977 | Download Series Vol 1 | ||||
13 May 1977 | May 1977 Box Set | ||||
18 May 1977 | 30 Days Of The Dead (2020) | ||||
4 Nov 1977 | Dave's Picks Volume 12 | ||||
21 Apr 1978 | So Many Roads (1965-1995) | ||||
11 May 1978 | Dick's Picks Vol 25 | ||||
3 Jul 1978 | July 1978: The Complete Recordings | ||||
16 Sep 1978 | Rocking The Cradle: Egypt 1978 | ||||
21 Oct 1978 | Road Trips Volume 1, Number 4 ("From Egypt With Love") | ||||
4 May 1979 | Live At The Coliseum | ||||
4 Dec 1979 | Dave's Picks Vol 47 | ||||
9 Mar 1981 | In And Out Of The Garden | ||||
16 May 1981 | 30 Trips Around The Sun | ||||
5 Jul 1981 | Long Strange Trip Soundtrack | ||||
9 Dec 1981 | Dave's Picks Volume 20 | ||||
20 Sep 1982 | In And Out Of The Garden | ||||
14 Oct 1983 | Dick's Picks Vol 6 | ||||
12 Jun 1987 | Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991 Boxed Set | ||||
26 Jul 1987 | View From The Vault IV (DVD & CD soundtrack) | ||||
3 Apr 1989 | Download Series Vol 9 | ||||
26 Oct 1989 | 30 Trips Around The Sun | ||||
16 Mar 1990 | Spring 1990 | ||||
24 Mar 1990 | Dozin' At The Knick | ||||
1 Apr 1990 | Spring 1990 (The Other One) | ||||
27 Oct 1990 | 30 Trips Around The Sun | ||||
14 Jun 1991 | View From The Vault II (video/DVD & CD soundtrack) | ||||
19 Jun 1991 | Download Series Vol 11 | ||||
16 Dec 1992 | Dick's Picks Vol 27 | ||||
1 Oct 1994 | 30 Trips Around The Sun | ||||
4 Jul 2015 | Fare Thee Well (CD and DVD) | ||||
(Plus live recordings by The Dead, Furthur, Dead & Company, Ratdog, Phil Lesh & Friends etc not listed here. See Grateful Dead Family Discography for a full list.) | |||||
Other Recordings | |||||
Date | Album | Recorded By | |||
1990 | Box Of Rain | Robert Hunter | |||
1994 | Good Morning Mr Nobody | Howth Castle | |||
1999 | Laughing Water | Jazz Is Dead | |||
2001 | Built To Grass | Grass Is Dead | |||
2003 | Live At Bonnaroo | Warren Haynes | |||
2006 | Songbird | Willie Nelson | |||
10 Mar 2006 | Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, Denver, CO | Zero (note 5) | |||
2007 | Blue Light Cheap Hotel | Wake The Dead | |||
2007 | Dead Symphony | Lee Johnson | |||
2008 | 30 Years | Jake's Leg | |||
27 Jun 2009 | Crystal Bay Live | David Nelson Band | |||
25 Jul 2009 | Jerry Jams for Rex | Steve Kimock Crazy Engine (note 5) | |||
2010 | Dead To The Core | Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers | |||
2010 | Songs Of The Grateful Dead | Jesse McReynolds | |||
2011 | Persuasions of the Dead | The Persuasions | |||
2011 | Dave's Way EP Volume 2 | Moonalice | |||
2013 | First Rehearsals | Sycamore Slough String Band | |||
2013 | Miles Away | MOTU | |||
2015 | It's A Hand-Me-Down | David Gans | |||
2015 | Songs Of Their Own | John Scofield & John Medeski | |||
2016 | Day Of The Dead | Local Natives | |||
2016 | Dead Giveaway | Be Gulls | |||
2018 | Cut The Dead Some Slack | Stephen Inglis | |||
2019 | Sabertooth Plays Dead | Sabertooth | |||
2020 | Seeking All That's Still Unsung | Holly Bowling | |||
2021 | Alive And Grateful | Bert Keely and Friends (Bert's Brew) | |||
2023 | Lovely View Of Heaven | Oteil & Friends | |||
2024 | Grateful: The Music Plays The Band | Oteil Burbridge |