In the shadow of the moon terrapin station.
Terrapin station at a siding meaning.
In the song terrapin station there is a reference to from the northwest corner this is a masonic reference.
However the story is not explicit so the listener is supposed to determine where or what this place represents.
Terrapin part 1 is a track broken up into seven sections.
General commentfor a while now i always listen to this song and remember robert hunter s journal after the 9 11 where he says he was in new york and was sitting on the roof 15 stores high that would face the world trade center and he started to sing terrapin station and while he sang it a strong wind blew around him and he felt like he was back to the days when he wrote it and he kept.
That is also the name of the third section a driving percussive passage that repeats and heightens opening a door to possibility.
It pertains to masonic ritual in which all new masons are placed in the northwest corner of the lodge standing there a just and perfect mason the implication is that you are as yet unsullied much as an infant is considered innocent having not yet experienced the world.
Terrapin station is the destination achieved when life unfolds with love as the intention.
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And terrapin station whatever or wherever it may be is a place that might good or might be ill for any given person.
The head might give a thousand reasons to say no emotionally may be blocked by fear etc but the heart speaks of life.
And i know well get there soon terrapin station.
Terrapin station is a place.
Terrapins all the way down it is.
But the train s put it s brakes on terrapin and the whistle is screaming terrapin terrapin station at the siding while you were gone these faces filled with darkness the obvious was hidden.
After all some rise some fall to get there.
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Lady with a fan terrapin station terrapin at a siding terrapin flyer and refrain.
Terrapin station at the siding while you were gone these faces filled with.
Terrapin station was released as the b.
This song is poetry in the sense of using hyperbole to shed light on a message from the storyteller.
I can t figure out terrapin if it s the end or beginning terrapin but the trains put it s brakes on terrapin and the whistle is screaming terrapin.
The story is supposed to explain this place.
It speaks of a place that crickets and cicadas sing of a place that can be found only by those with adventure and passion in their hearts.
Living is an exercise in living my truth.
