The Annotated Fire on the Mountain
I think the key to the song is in the second verse:
Almost aflame still you don't feel the heat
Takes all you got just to stay on the beat
You say it's a living, we all gotta eat
but you're here alone there's no one to compete
If mercy's in business I wish it for you
More than just ashes when your dreams come true
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Say what I mean and I don't give a damn
I do believe and I am who I am
-Robert Hunter
We must all be foolish at times, it is one of the conditions of liberty.
-Walt Whitman
That old whisky drinking, bluegrass listening, North Face wearing, all night roaming rambler he'll always be.
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