A song about the implication of decision and the effect, and sometimes lack thereof, a decision has on our happiness. A song about acceptance, really. As Matthews sings, “Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I’ll work it out.” He asks, in what is quite possibly the coolest rhetorical question in a song, “Could I have been anyone other than me?” You can listen to this song along with 90% of the Dave Matthews Band catalog for free at their website.
For all of our US readers: have a great (and safe!) 4th of July.
I know, I know, I am a DMB nut, but you can’t blame me, this one has one of the coolest music videos… many people getting together and making music, that is unfortunately barred from embedding by their management (come on guys… embedding has got to only HELP you, right?).
Listen to it here:
You and I, we’re not tied to the ground
Not falling but rising like rolling around
Eyes closed above the rooftops
Eyes closed, we’re gonna spin through the stars
Our arms wide as the sky
We gonna ride the blue all the way to the end of the world
To the end of the world
I promised you more from Dave Matthews! Fans of the band are… well… enthusiastic, with good reason. I’ll get to that in a second, but check out the song:
Before the initial climax, Dave tends to mix and match the lyrics to the first “pseudo-verse”. Realizing this, Dave’s fans took to cataloging all of the poetry he added. You can find the long list HERE. It’s really interesting to see the changes, and I can imagine for Dave it’s great to make the song so flexible. It’s so cool. The first few lines set the tone for the rest of the song, and it’s up to the listener to interpret the almost atmospheric poetry Mr. Matthews adds on the top of the tune.
Anywho, leave it to a D.M fan who happens to be a psychologist to analyze the twelve years of ‘data’:
“In true dichotomous fashion, some of the world’s biggest conundrums are explored in these tiny vignettes, and if you read them in chronological order, you can almost extract an ongoing storyline. The first major theme that surfaces in these intros, is the idea that life and time are elusive and can slip by like good weekends. Often painting an image of a childhood spent, “under the table and dreaming,” Dave speaks of a youthful phase when, “all these hours, they seem so long and days would last a year.” But through the wary eyes of an adult, “the time grows short, each minute second, each year a day, and time seems flickering by as if we’re almost done.” After acknowledging the ephemeral nature of our existence, Dave goes on to question whether God is real or just a dream, “we search for God to answer every roll on,” but seems to surmise that a storm of great proportions is coming to end it all, “I swear the rain will come, I promise you this place will wash away.” But in an effort to ride the storm Dave has “built a boat of huge dimensions. For you to march to, and to dance along the boat, until the waters dry.” I think this speaks well of Dave’s characteristic way of acknowledging darkness without getting completely lost in it.”
You can read the whole article on the Dave Matthews Band fan page Don’t Burn the Pig HERE.
As always,
Have fun!
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