You remind me of feather pillows
Georgia dawns and weeping willows
Days of summer, long ago
Angel wings in new-fallen snow
You remind me of radio plays
In the “Golden Age of Radio” days
When imagination still was king
You didn’t actually need to see everything
You remind me
How sweet it all can be
How to whisper, how to sing
Of the passion we brought to everything
Of the promise that was spring
You remind me love is nothing
But the best that life can bring
You remind me of shooting stars
Life was a joy, if the living was hard
Rewards were few, and patience thin
Still it was easy to start all over again
You remind me of piano keys
Little bit sharp on the middle C
Dust of the soundboard, a vase of roses1
A roaring fire where a hound dog dozes
You remind me
How sweet it all can be
How to whisper, how to sing
Of the passion we brought to everything
Of the promise and the spring
You remind me love is nothing
But the best that life can bring
You remind me how the more things change
The more it’s sure they’ll remain the same
How everything old again is new
That serves in the end
To remind me of you
You remind me of feather pillows
Georgia dawns, and weeping willows
Days of summer, long ago
Sam Cooke singing on the radio2
You remind me
How sweet it all can be
How to whisper, how to sing
Of the passion we brought to everything
Of the promise that was spring
You remind me
How to whisper, how to sing
Of the passion we brought to everything
Of the promise that was spring
You remind me
How to whisper, how to sing
Of the passion we brought to everything
Of the promise that was spring
You remind me love is nothing
But the best that life can bring
You remind me
You remind me
You remind me
You remind me
Words by Robert Hunter
Music by Mickey Hart and Warren Haynes
See note under “That’s It for the Other One.”
Singer and composer (1931–1964) from the 1950s and 1960s whose brand of soul was highly influential. His 1956 song “You Send Me” sold more than two million copies.
First performance by The Dead: June 22, 2004, at the Cricket Pavilion, Phoenix.
A song played in 2002 by Mickey Hart and Bembe Orisha. This was Robert Hunter’s comment in his road journal:
Mickey is doing a very hot show with his best band ever, outside of the Dead, and doing a bunch of new songs we cowrote. He has three excellent singers to give them full impact. Phil and Jimmy Herring joined him yesterday and they tore the roof off. One of our new tunes, “You Remind,” actually gave me goosebumps that lasted for several minutes. A no-nonsense sweet, sweet love song that struck home with the audience in a way rarely seen with an unfamiliar mid-tempo ballad.