Standing on the Moon 9 t 7 HVgeW 2 Kk by the Grateful Dead . This is just pure Jerry and if you don ' t love the man after listening to him standing there pouring out his very soul there ' s something wrong with you . Unlike a lot of the Dead ' s music , this was written in ' 89 well after the Counterculture revolution had failed . Jerry was in declining health and I think sensed his own mortality . It ' s almost a liturgy and almost a celebration . The Dead was one of the most influential acts in music with a huge following , but they and all the hippies still couldn ' t change the world . Greed , and war , and the distance between people had won , but Jerry was still there . Looking down at everything , one foot on the stage , one foot in the next life , but still loving everyone around him , still trying to get just one more person to love him back . a lovely view of heaven , but I ' d rather be with you . God we need the hippies back .