I’m lookin’ out my window
I watch the clouds go by
I look to see eternity
The endless rolling sky
You cannot think of eternity
Think of it like time
You try to think, you try to count
You just mess up your mind
Eternity, eternity
Honey, I love you, you love me
Let’s love each other through eternity
Since before man could see
There was eternity
After man is come and gone
Eternity lingers on, eternity lingers on
Everything crawl, creep, or fly
Just live until they die
I love you, honey, you love me
Let’s love each other through eternity
Eternity, eternity
I love you, you love me
Let’s love each other through eternity
Through eternity
Well I think about life, we don’t know
Whether it all could be in vain
Look through time, it’s for sure
It’s the greatest gift to man
Music and love, you can’t explain
Try and understand
The greatest thing could ever be
We make love through eternity
Make love through eternity
When the world think our defeat
Think that we are gone
We’ll still have our place of peace
Our love will linger on, linger on
We won’t care just what who said
If it’s truth or lie
We’ll still have our greatest gift
Our love won’t ever die
Love won’t ever die
Love won’t ever die
Words by Willie Dixon
Music by Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman
No official Grateful Dead recording.
First performance: February 21, 1993, at the Oakland Coliseum Arena in Oakland, California.
Blues bass player and composer Willie James Dixon was born on July 1, 1915, in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He was the seventh of fourteen children. He left Vicksburg for Chicago at age seventeen to become a boxer but only fought four matches as a pro after attaining the title of Illinois State Golden Gloves Heavyweight Champion. He formed a musical group, the Five Breezes, in 1940 and was arrested a year later for refusing to serve in the armed forces. In 1945 he formed a new group, the Big Three Trio, and they played blues clubs in Chicago, occasionally teaming up with Muddy Waters. Dixon began to work for Chess Records as a composer and arranger in the early 1950s, and stayed through 1971. He wrote some of the best-known blues songs, which were recorded by a wide variety of artists: “Hoochie Coochie Man” and “I Just Want to Make Love to You” for Muddy Waters; “Wang Dang Doodle” for Koko Taylor; and “Back Door Man” for Howlin’ Wolf. He died in Burbank, California, on January 19, 1992. He wrote an autobiography, I Am the Blues, published in 1989.