この曲の詩は、私が知っている詩や曲の内、”亡くなる”という感覚が最も美しく表現されている曲だと思います。

5年前の1月28日、2016年にJefferson AirplaneとJefferson Starship の創立者の一人、Paul Kantnerが亡くなりました。この曲の詩は、私が知っている詩や曲の内、”亡くなる”という感覚が最も美しく表現されている曲だと思います。下記の詩を見てみてください。　

曲にはGrateful DeadのJerry GarciaやDavid Crosbyも参加しています。Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut, Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Cooney, Jean Genet, Mike Lipskin, Buckminster Fuller, Theodore Sturgeon, A. A. Milne, John Lear, and The Bear. Written by Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, Marty Balin, and Gary Blackman.
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We come and go like a comet
We are wanderers
Are you anymore?
The land is green and you make it grow
And you gotta let go you know
You gotta let go you know
Or else you stay
MANKIND GONE FROM THE CAGE
ALL THE YEARS GONE FROM YOUR AGE
At first
I was iridescent
Then
I became transparent
Finally
I was absent
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SPILLIN' OUT OF THE STEEL GLASS
GRAVITY GONE FROM THE CAGE
A MILLION POUNDS GONE FROM YOUR HEAVY MASS
ALL THE YEARS GONE FROM YOUR AGE

Hydroponic gardens and forests
Glistening with lakes in the Jupiter Starlite
Room for babies and Byzantine dancing astronauts of renown
The magician and the pantechnicon
Take along the farmer and the physician
We gotta get out and down
Back into the future
Beyond our own time again
Reachin' for tomorrow
It's so fine Starshine
THE MELTING ACID FEVER STREAKIN' THRU MY MIND
MAKES IT OH SO DIFFICULT TO SEE YOU
AND OH SO EASY TO TOUCH YOU
I MELT WITH YOU
FEEL WITH YOU
MAKE LOVE FOR YOU
AT YOU
AROUND YOU
I LOVE YOU

Dear Brumus, the ship will be ours and you got to roll with it
Though your master's head's blown off you got to go with it
Roll with the natural flow
Like water off a spinning ball
Out - the one remaining way to go
Free - the only way to fall
The light in the night is the sun
And it can carry you around the planetary ground
And the planetary whip of the sun
Will carry you well past Gideon
And the people you see will leave you be
more than the ones you've known before

Album: "Blow Against The Empire" (1970)

JEFFERSON STARSHIP - Have You Seen The Stars Tonite / Starship