Patti Smith Grateful Poetry Project New Years Day Marathon 2012

Reigning queen of the Poetry Project, rocker Patti Smith shares a few thoughts in support of the hoped for reign of the people. Accompanying herself on guitar, she performs "Grateful" from her 2000 album "Gung Ho."
(My camera broke during the third hour, tape lost with it, so desolée, there will be no more uploads from this years Poetry Project Marathon. Sorry to have lost some great performances and great old video camera).
Grateful for what I got, and to Patti for coming to the Poetry Project after her 65th birthday party, New Years gig at the Bowery Ballroom. St.Marks Church 38th annual Poetry Project New Years Day Marathon, Jan. 1, 2012, New York City

"Grateful" lyrics :
Ours is just another skin
That simply slips away
You can rise above it
It will she'd easily

It all will come out fine
I've learned it line by line
One common wire
One silver thread
All that you desire
Rolls on ahead

Like a ship in a bottle
Held up to the sun
Sails ain't going nowhere
You can count every one
Until it crashes unto the earth
And simply slips away
You can hide in the open
Or just disappear

Ours is just a craving
And a twist of the wrist
Will undo the stopper
With abrupt tenderness
Die little sparrow
And awake
Singing

It all will come out fine
I've learned it line by line
One common wire
One silver thread
All that you desire
Rolls on ahead

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