Several things about this song. I am using the 100 Year Hall version.
1. Usually they don't play the 3rd stanza of lyrics ("The words come out...") - too personal, too specific, too much of a "laughin' on the bus" factor. Instead, put a solo on the lyric chords before the "From day to day...".
2. Both couplets of the lyrics end in the D->Dm switch, not just the first one; i.e., add a Dm after the "pain" in "to cause so much pain".
3. On "Only Love Can Fill", G works better than Em7.
4. Interesting: There is one important correction in the last stanza. On "The day may come...", play an Em instead of an E on the "come".
This change will also sound good in the other lyrics, but don't do it for all of them: The Dead are deliberately playing with the major/minor ambiguity to invoke a "bittersweet" feeling.
For instance, on 100 Year Hall, they hint at the Em in the second stanza - on "Never in my mind...", Bob alone plays Em for the "mind". In the third stanza, they all play Em.
The E/Em ambiguity reflects the D->Dm change at the end of the lyric couplets, which is more striking and, in my opinion, invokes a sense of resignation. At any rate, both are ways of using the major/minor distinction to invoke emotion.
1. Usually they don't play the 3rd stanza of lyrics ("The words come out...") - too personal, too specific, too much of a "laughin' on the bus" factor. Instead, put a solo on the lyric chords before the "From day to day...".
2. Both couplets of the lyrics end in the D->Dm switch, not just the first one; i.e., add a Dm after the "pain" in "to cause so much pain".
3. On "Only Love Can Fill", G works better than Em7.
4. Interesting: There is one important correction in the last stanza. On "The day may come...", play an Em instead of an E on the "come".
This change will also sound good in the other lyrics, but don't do it for all of them: The Dead are deliberately playing with the major/minor ambiguity to invoke a "bittersweet" feeling.
For instance, on 100 Year Hall, they hint at the Em in the second stanza - on "Never in my mind...", Bob alone plays Em for the "mind". In the third stanza, they all play Em.
The E/Em ambiguity reflects the D->Dm change at the end of the lyric couplets, which is more striking and, in my opinion, invokes a sense of resignation. At any rate, both are ways of using the major/minor distinction to invoke emotion.