If these walls came crumbling down
Fell so hard to make us lose our faith
From what's left you'd figure it out
And makes lemonade taste like a sunny day
Stay beautiful baby
I hope you stay American baby
American baby
Nobody's laughing now
God's grace lost and the devil is proud
But I've been walking for a thousand miles
Just one last time I could see you smile
I hold onto you
You bring me hope I'll see you soon
And if i don't see you, I'm afraid we've lost the way
Stay beautiful baby
I hope you stay American baby
American baby
I hold on to you
You lift me up and always will
I see you in life and hope I don't get left behind
I hold on to you
You bring me hope I'll see you soon
And if I don't see you, I'm afraid we've lost the way
Stay beautiful baby
I hope you stay American baby
American baby
Nobody's laughing now,
But you could always make me laugh out loud
Stay beautiful baby
I hope you stay American baby
American baby
I hope you stay beautiful baby
I hope you stay American baby
American baby
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An' Another Thing
Written by David J. Matthews
Rain for me on you but call me
It's my broken heart just where you leave me
The way I see you
Rain on my head
Rain on my head
Wonder would you
Stay a minute just to hear the way you look
Sweet and tender would you go out again
Rain on my head
Wouldn't you
Rain on my head
Someone take off
Rain
Wonder would you
I met a girl recently
All of a sudden, all of a suddenly nobody
All of a sudden, all of a suddenly nobody
Rain
Oh, rain on my head
Wonder would I
Days
Minutes minutes days
How you and I
Rain
Don't you look at me
Don't you look at me
Rain on my head
Rain on my head
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Angel
Written by David J. Matthews and Glen Ballard
I call you up
You pick up
You call my bluff
On the cards of love
You hold to close
Your hands to your chest
I can’t read your eyes
But I confess
It’s lonely far from you
Even when you’re right by me
It’s only why I wait for you
Take my hand yeah
Why do I beg like a child
For your candy
Why do I come after you
Like I do
I love you
Whatever you are I swear
You’ll be my angel
You
I play my cards
Best I can
But I lose my luck
When you’re not here
My darling heart
Won’t you please give in
I may be strong
But I want you back again
When you’re not here
It’s hard to pretend
It’s all all right
Again
When you’re not here love
It’s hard to pretend
It’s all all right…still
Why do I beg like a child
For your candy
Why do I run after you
Like I do
I love you
Whatever you are I swear
You’ll be my angel
You
Watch the deck
Count your cards
Makes no sense
That I’m always losing
When you’re gone
Why do I beg like a child
For your candy
Why do I run after you
Like I do
I love you
Whatever you are I swear
You’ll be my angel
You
When you’re gone
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Ants Marching
Written by David J. Matthews
He wakes up in the morning
Does his teeth bite to eat and he's rolling
Never changes a thing
The week ends the week begins
She thinks, we look at each other
Wondering what the other is thinking
But we never say a thing
These crimes between us grow deeper
Goes to visit his mommy
She feeds him well his concerns
He forgets them
And remembers being small
Playing under the table and dreaming
Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die
Driving in on this highway
All these cars and upon the sidewalk
People in every direction
No words exchanged
No time to exchange
And all the little ants are marching
Red and black antennas waving
They all do it the same
They all do it the same way
Candyman teasing the thoughts of a
Sweet tooth tortured by the weight loss
Programs cutting the corners
Loose end, loose end, cut, cut
On the fence, could not to offend
Cut, cut, cut, cut
Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die
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Baby
Written by David J. Matthews
Baby, it's all right
Stop your crying
Now
Nothing is here to stay
Everything has to begin and end
A ship in a bottle won't sail
All we can do is dream that the wind will blow us across the water
A ship in a bottle set sail
Baby, it's al lright
Stop your crying, now
There was a weakling man
Who dreamed he was strong as a hurricane
A ship in a bottle set sail
He took a deep breath and blew across the world
He watched everything crumble
Woke up a weakling again
Some might tell you there's no hope in hand
Just because they feel hopeless
But you don't have to be a thing like that
You be a ship in a bottle set sail
Baby, it's all right
Stop your crying, now
It's all right
So stop your crying, now
Be a ship in a bottle set sail
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Bartender
Written by David J. Matthews
Haha, look at that girl
Woman...
Not enough, never too much
The woman look just like love
Rolling stone gathers no moss
But leave a trail of busted stuff
I know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her
I take what she's giving up
I know she's gonna leave this broken man behind her
I take what she's giving up
Sweet sugar lips push from the hips
Woman looks just like love
Without a care she floats above
She got me down here looking up
I know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her
I take what she's giving up
I know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind
Yeah, yeah...
She me one
She my one
She my one
Little love
When she move
She move so cool
She make me feel just like a fool
But inside where the devil hides
Women looks just like love
I know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind
I take what she's giving up, oh
I know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her now
I get what she's giving up, oh
I know she's gonna leave her broken man behind
Hey, yeah...
She my one
She my one
She the one for me
Yeah...
I know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind
Yeah, yeah...
She my one...
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Best of What's Around, The
Written by David J. Matthews
Hey my friend
It seems your eyes are troubled
Care to share your times with me
Would you say you're feeling low and so
A good idea would be to get it off your mind
See, you and me
Have a better time than most can dream
Have it better than the best
And so can pull on through
Whatever tears at us
Whatever holds us down
And if nothing can be done
We'll make the best of what's around
Turns out not where but who you're with
That really matters
And hurts not much when you're around
If you hold on tight
To what you think is your thing
You may find you're missing all the rest
She run up into the light surprised
Her arms are open
Her mind's eye is
Seeing things from a
Clearer side than most can dream
On a better road I feel
So you could say she's safe
Whatever tears at her
Whatever holds her down
And if nothing can be done
She'll make the best of what's around
Turns out not where but what you think
That really matters
And hurts not much when you're around
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Big Eyed Fish
Written by David J. Matthews
Look at this big - eyed fish swimming in the sea oh
How it dreams to be a bird swoop and diving through the breeze
So one day caught a big old wave up on to the beach
Now he’s dead you see beneath the sea is where a fish should be
But oh God
Under the weight of life
Things seem brighter on the other side
You see this crazy man decided not to breathe
He turned red and blue - purple, colorful indeed
No matter how his friends begged and pleaded the man would not concede
And now he’s dead you see the silly man should know you got to breathe
But oh God
Under the weight of life
Things seem brighter on the other side
Oh God
Under the weight of life
Things seem so much better on the other side
No way, no way
No way out of here
You see the little monkey sitting up in his monkey tree
One day decided to climb down and run off to the city
But look at him now lost tired living in the street
As good as dead you see what a monkey does - stay up your tree
But oh God
Under the weight of life
Things seem brighter on the other side
Oh God
Under the weight of life
Things seem so much better on the other side
No way, no way, no way
No way out of here
Rain in my dreams
Fall away
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Busted Stuff
Written by David J. Matthews
Haha, look at that girl
Woman...
Not enough, never too much
The woman look just like love
Rolling stone gathers no moss
But leave a trail of busted stuff
I know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her
I take what she's giving up
I know she's gonna leave this broken man behind her
I take what she's giving up
Sweet sugar lips push from the hips
Woman looks just like love
Without a care she floats above
She got me down here looking up
I know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her
I take what she's giving up
I know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind
Yeah, yeah...
She me one
She my one
She my one
Little love
When she move
She move so cool
She make me feel just like a fool
But inside where the devil hides
Women looks just like love
I know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind
I take what she's giving up, oh
I know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her now
I get what she's giving up, oh
I know she's gonna leave her broken man behind
Hey, yeah...
She my one
She my one
She the one for me
Yeah...
I know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind
Yeah, yeah...
She my one...
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Butterfly (ikke udgivet)
Written by Dave Matthews Band
You are like a butterfly
Dream that you can come to fly
Bust out of this old cocoon
Dry your wings off, butterfly
Don'?t you cry
Its always such a lonely mood
Or its something like a broken bone
You know luck won't always come your way
But dry your tears away, butterfly
Don'?t you cry
Dry your tears away, butterfly
Go ahead, and fly
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Captain
Written by David J. Matthews
Crazy as I may make my way through this world
It's for no one but me to say what direction I shall turn
I am the captain of this ship
Curious hands and fingertips
Day after day how I long for you my love how I long
Strange but it seems like there's a mutiny brewing inside me
But I don't want your pity only the promise that you'll stay with me tonight
Now I am the captain of this ship
Curious hands and fingertips
Day after day oh how I long for you like crazy
Oh our love - how you do me
Oh my love - come now lets go again
Oh our love - everything
Oh won't play with me again got all night
Same old song won't you come stay all my life after all
Oh how could I even try to fight after falling into your arms?
Oh mesmerized by your smile the way it lights up under your eyes
Oh how could I even try love won't you stay with me?
Oh our love - how you do me
Oh my love - come now lets go again
Oh our love - everything
Oh won't play with me again we got all night
The same old song
Won't you come dance with me my love after all?
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Christmas Song
Written by David J. Matthews
She was his girl; he was her boyfriend
She be his wife; take him as her husband
A surprise on the way, any day, any day
One healthy little giggling dribbling baby boy
The wise men came three made their way
To shower him with love
While he lay in the hay
Shower him with love love love
Love love love
Love love is all around
Not very much of his childhood was known
Kept his mother Mary worried
Always out on his own
He met another Mary for a reasonable fee, less than
Reputable as known to be
His heart was full of love love love
Love love love
Love love is all around
When Jesus Christ was nailed to the his tree
Said "oh, Daddy-o I can see how it all soon will be
I came to shed a little light on this darkening scene
Instead I fear I spill the blood of my children all around"
The blood of our children all around
The blood of our children all around
The blood of our children all around
So the story goes, so I'm told
The people he knew were
Less than golden hearted
Gamblers and robbers
Drinkers and jokers, all soul searchers
Like you and me
Rumors insisited he soon would be
For his deviations
Taken into custody by the authorities
Less informed than he.
Drinkers and jokers. all soul searchers
Searching for love love love
Love love love
Love love is all around
Preparations were made
For his celebration day
He said "eat this bread and think of it as me
Drink this wine and dream it will be
The blood of our children all around
The blood of our children all around"
The blood of our children all around
Father up above, why in all this anger have you fill
Me up with love
Fill me love love love
Love love love
Love love
And the blood of our children all around
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Cigarette Lit (ikke udgivet)
Written by Dave Matthews Band
Cigarette lit
My plans to quit
And I know I can and I know I will forget it
Stuck here
I need something quick
Just to stop me thinking
Always out
Always in
It's coming to me
Excuse me please
What have you got?
Get me out of my head while I still got the courage
Not so out
Just out of enough
'Til I feel like I'm taking off
The brave falls down not alone
Covers all of us
In silver line
In silver line
And all I beg you stay with me
Let it rain all night
What a gift
This short visit
And I know I'll go just as quick as I came in
Not stay
My finger tip
To stop me thinking
Always out
Always in
Is coming to me
Excuse me please
What have you got?
Get me out of my head while I still got the courage
Not so out
Just out enough
'til I feel like I'm taking off
And the rain falls down, it's over me
Covers all of us
With silver line
In silver line
And all I beg you stay with me
Let it rain all night
And always out
Always in
Is calling to me
Not so out
Just out enough
'Til I feel like I'm taking off
And the rain falls down, I'm not alone
And covers all of us
With silver line
In silver line
And all I beg you stay with me
Let it rain all night
Oh
And the rain falls down, not alone
And covers all of us
With silver light
In silver light
And all I beg you stay with me
Let it rain all night
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Crash Into Me
Written by David J. Matthews
You've got your ball
You've got your chain
Tied to me tight tie me up again
Who's got their claws
in you my friend
Into your heart I'll beat again
Sweet like candy to my soul
Sweet you rock
and sweet you roll
Lost for you I'm so lost for you
You come crash into me
And I come into you,
I come into you
In a boys dream
In a boys dream
Touch your lips just so I know
In your eyes, love, it glows so
I'm bare-boned and crazy for you
When you come crash
into me, baby
And I come into you
In a boys dream
In a boys dream
If I've gone overboard
Then I'm begging you
to forgive me
In my haste
When I'm holding you so girl...
close to me
Oh and you come crash
into me, baby
And I come into you
Hike up your skirt a little more
and show the world to me
Hike up your skirt a little more
and show your world to me
In a boys dream... In a boys dream
Oh I watch you there
through the window
And I stare at you
You wear nothing but you
wear it so well
Tied up and twisted,
the way I'd like to be
For you, for me, come crash
Into me
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Crush
Written by David J. Matthews
Crazy, how it feels tonight
Crazy, how you make it all alright, love
Crush me with the things you do
And I'll do for you, anything, too, oh
Sitting, smoking, feeling high,
And in this moment, oh, it feels so right
Lovely lady, I am at your feet
Oh God, I want you so badly
And I wonder this, could tomorrow be
So wondrous as you there, sleeping?
Let's go -- drive 'til morning comes,
Watch the sun rise and fill our souls up
Drink some wine til we get drunk, yeah
It's crazy, I'm thinking, just knowing that the world is round,
And here I'm dancing on the ground
Am I right-side-up or upside-down,
And is this real or am I dreaming?
Lovely lady, let me drink you, please
Won't spill a drop, no, I promise you
Laying under this spell you cast on me,
Each moment, the more I love you
Crush me, come on, oh yeah
It's crazy, I'm thinking, just knowing that the world is round,
And here I'm dancing on the ground
Am I right-side-up or upside-down,
Is this real or am I dreaming?
Lovely lady, I will treat you sweetly, oh
I adore you, I mean, you crush me
And it's times like these when my faith, I feel it
I know, how I love you
Come on, come on, baby
It's crazy, I'm thinking, just as long as you're around,
And here I'll be dancing on the ground
Am I right-side-up or upside-down?
To each other we'll be facing, my love, my love
We'll beat back the pain we've found
You know, I mean to tell you all the things I've been thinking deep inside
My friend,
Each moment, the more I love you
Crush me, come on, baby
So much you have given, love,
That I would give you back again and again
Oh love, meaning I'll hold you, but please,
Please, just let me always
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Cry Freedom
Written by David J. Matthews
How can I turn away
Brother/Sister go dancing
Through my head
Human as to human
The future is no place
To place your better days
Cry freedom, cry
From a crowd 10,000 wide
Hope laid upon hope
That this crowd will not subside
Let this flag burn to dust
And a new a fair design be raised
While we wait head in hands,
Hands in prayer
And fall into a dreamless sleep again
And we wave our hands
Hands and feet are all alike
But gold between divide us
Hands and feet are all alike
But fear between divide us
All slip away
There was a window and by it stood
A mirror in which
He could see himself
He thought of something
Something he
Had never had but hoped
Would come along
Cry freedom, cry
From deep inside
Where we are all confined
While we wave hands in fire
Wave our hands
Hands and feet are all alike
But gold between divide us
Hands and feet are all alike
But fear between divide us,
Slip away
In this room stood a little child
And in this room this little child
She would remain
Until someone might decide
To dance this little child
Across this hall
Into a cold, dark, space
Where she might never trace her way
Across this crooked mile
Across this crooked page
Cry freedom, cry
From deep inside where
We are all confined
Till we wave our hands
How can I turn away
Brother/Sister go dancing
through my head
Human as to human
The future is no place
To place your better days
Hands and feet are all alike
But gold between divide us
Hands and feet are all alike
But fear between divide us
Hands and feet are all alike
Hear what I say Hear what I say
Oh, so be it
How can I turn away
Brother/Sister go dancing through my head
Human as to human
The future is no place
To place your better days
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Deed is Done
Written by Dave Matthews Band
Oh, Pray
Oh, Pray
Oh, so I'm praying all at night
And I wake up praying the whole daylight
I pray to you, and hear my request
I ask of you to save this baby
Oh, look at the girl
Awful inside, is cancer-eaten, is life-deprived,
And if so by who? Could it be you?
I see no need for a baby's wisdom for you
Oh, God, the girl, all yellow turned
Her cheeks are swollen, and soul is burned
Oh, but the girl, the girl is gone
And the deed is done, oh it must be wrong
Oh and I pray, my prayer's not heard
Could it be your deaf, deaf to mortal words?
Oh, and see her pain, and drain and drain
Could you be deaf, and blind my friend?
Oh, and so we hold
Can* you not hear? Can* you not see?
And if with words
You could change the way things are arranged
Surely you'd be speaking, *seaking* no change
Oh, but the girl, deaf, dumb, and blind
From the cancer burning deep down inside
Oh, but the deed is done
And the girl is gone
I see no faith
That I have won
*Check it out, check it out, yeah*
Well, you may find your religion
You may find your attraction
You may go, for me the girl is gone
Oh, you may find you're faithful
You may find out the reaction
But to me, the baby's gone
The baby...
Hey... hey...
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Digging a Ditch
Written by David J. Matthews
Run to your dreaming when you're alone
Unplug the TV and turn off your phone
Get heavy on with digging your ditch
Cause I'm
Digging a ditch where madness gives a bit
Digging a ditch where silence lives
Digging a ditch for when I'm old
Digging this ditch my story's told
Where all these troubles weigh down on me will rise
Run to your dreaming when you're alone
Where all these questions spinning round my head will die, will die, will die
Run to your dreaming when you're alone
Unplug the TV and turn off your phone
Get heavy on with digging your ditch
Cause I'm
Digging a ditch where madness gives a bit
Digging a ditch where silence lives
Digging a ditch for when I'm through
Digging this ditch I'm digging for you
Where all these worries wear down on me will rise
Where all these habits pull heavy at my heart will die
Run to your dreaming when you're alone
Not what you should be or what you've become
Just get heavy on with digging your ditch
Cause I'm
Digging a ditch where madness gives a bit
Digging a ditch where silence lives
Where all these disappointments that grow angry out of me will rise
Will die, will die, will die
Run to your dreaming when you're alone
Unplug the TV and turn off your phone
Get heavy on with digging your ditch
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Dodo
Written by David J. Matthews
Once upon a time
When the world was just a pancake
Fears would arise
That if you went too far, you'd fall
But with the
Passage of time
It all became more of a ball
We're as sure of that
As we all once were when the world was flat
So I wonder this
As life billows smoke inside my head
This little game
Where nothing is sure
Why would you play by the rules?
Who did, you did, you
Who did, you did, you
When was it killed
The very last dodo bird
And was she aware
She was the very last one
So I wonder this
As life billows smoke inside my head
This little game
When I think it should
Why would play by the rules?
Who did, you did, you
Who did, you did, you
You say who did, you did, you
If all the things that you are saying now
Were true enough but still what was I worrying around
We can work it out
We can work it out
Oh I wonder this
As life billows smoke inside my head
This little game
When I think it should
Why would you play that rules?
Who did, you did, you
Who did, you did, you
You say who did, you did, you
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Don't Drink the Water
Written by David J. Matthews
Come out, come out, no use in hiding
Come now, come now, can you not see?
There's no place here, what were you expecting?
No room for both, just room for me
So you will lay your arms down
Yes I will call this home
Away, away you have been banished
Your land is gone and given me
And here I will spread my wings
Yes I will call this home
What's that you say?
You feel the right to remain?
Then stay and I will bury you
What's that you say?
Your father's spirit still lives in this place,
Well I will silence you
Here's the hitch, your horse is leaving,
Don't miss your boat, it's leaving now
And as you go I will spread my wings
Yes I will call this home
I have no time to justify to you
Fool you're blind, move aside for me
All I can say to you, my new neighbor
Is you must move on or I will bury you
[chanting]
Now as I rest my feet by this fire
Those hands once warmed here
But I have retired them
I can breathe my own air
And I can sleep more soundly
Upon these pour souls
I'll build heaven and call it home
'Cause you're all dead now.
And I live with my justice
And I live with my greedy need
Oh I live with no mercy
And I live with my frenzied feeding
And I live with my hatred
And I live with my jealousy
Oh I live with the notion
That I don't need anyone but me
Don't drink the water
Don't drink the water
Blood in the water
Don't drink the water
Don't drink the water
Don't drink the water
There's blood in the water
Don't drink the water
Blood in the water
You'll all be dead
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Dancing Nancies
Written by David J. Matthews
Could I have been
A parking lot attendant
Could I have been
A millionaire in Bel Air
Could I have been Lost somewhere in Paris
Could I have been
Your little brother
Could I have been
Anyone other than me
Could I have been
Anyone other than me
Could I have been
Anyone other than me
Could I have been
Anyone
He stands touch his hair his shoes untied
Tongue gaping stare
Could I have been a magnet for money?
Could I have been anyone other than me?
Twenty three and so tired of life
Such a shame to throw it all away
The images grow darker still
Could I have been anyone other than me? Then I
Look up at the sky
My mouth is open wide, lick and taste
What's the use in worrying, what's the use in hurrying
Turn, turn we almost become dizzy
I am who I am who I am who am I
Requesting some enlightenment
Could I have been anyone other than me?
Sing and dance I'll play for you tonight
And thrill at it all
Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes
But I'll work it out then I
Look up at the sky
My mouth is open wide, lick and taste
What's the use in worrying, what's the use in hurrying
Turn, turn we almost become dizzy
Falling out of a world of lies
Could I have been dancing nancy
Could I have been anyone other than me?
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Dreamgirl
Written by Dave Matthews Band and Mark Batson
I would dig a hole all the way to China
Unless of course I was there
And I'd dig my way home.
If by digging I could steal
The wind from the sails of the greedy men who ruled the world.
Still you're my best friend
And after a good, good drunk
You and me wake up and make love
After a deep sleep where I was dreaming
I was dreaming of a
Dreamgirl
Dreamgirl
Dreamgirl (Yeah)
Dreamgirl
I was feeling like a creep as I watched you asleep
Face down in the grass in the park in the middle of hot afternoon
Your top was untied and I thought how nice it'd be to follow the sweat down your spine.
You're like my best friend
Oh, after a good good drink
You and me wake up and make love
After a deep sleep where I was dreaming
I was dreaming of a
Dreamgirl (yeah)
Dreamgirl
Dreamgirl (yeah)
Dreamgirl
Caught by a wave my back to the ocean.
It knocks me off my feet and
Just as I find my footing
Here you come again!
Dreamgirl, oh
Dreamgirl
The deep end...
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Dreaming Tree, The
Written by David J. Matthews and Stefan Lessard
Standing here
The old man said to me
"Long before these crowded streets
Here stood my dreaming tree"
Below it he would sit
For hours at a time
Now progress takes away
What forever took to find
Now he's falling hard
He feels the falling dark
How he longs to be
Beneath his dreaming tree
Conquered fear to climb
A moment froze in time
When the girl who first he kissed
Promised him she'd be his
Remembered mother's words
There beneath the tree
"No matter what the world
You'll always be my baby"
Mommy come quick
The dreaming tree has died
The air is growing thick
A fear he cannot hide
The dreaming tree has died
Oh have you no pity
This thing I do
I do not deny it
All through this smile
As crooked as danger
I do not deny
I know in my mind
I would leave you now
If I had the strength to
I would leave you up
To your own devices
Will you not talk
Can you take pity
I don't ask much
But won't you speak
Please
From the start
She knew she had it made
Easy up 'til then
For sure she'd make the grade
Adorers came in hordes
To lay down in her wake
She gave it all she had
But treasures slowly fade
Now she's falling hard
She feels the fall of dark
How did this fall apart
She drinks to fill it up
A smile of sweetest flowers
Wilted so and soured
Black tears stain the cheeks
That once were so admired
She thinks when she was small
There on her father's knee
How he had promised her
"You'll always be my baby"
"Daddy come quick
The dreaming tree has died
I can't find my way home
There is no place to hide
The dreaming tree has died"
Oh if I had the strength...
Take me back
Save me please
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Dreams of Our Fathers
Written by David J. Matthews and Glen Ballard
I'm choking I'm choking
On the smoke from this burning house
I claw and I scrape
But I can't seem to get out oh
But who the who is this
That's scratching from the ground
It's my world too
But who's gold is this I'm digging out
When we go where we go
When we're dead
Is the verdict still out
Do we get into line
To line up with those long dead now
With muffled tears of sorrow
For bones underground
This is our time yes it is
Without or with this shadow of doubt
Don't want to wake up
Lost in the dreams of our fathers
It's such a waste child
To live and die for the dreams of our fathers
Though I must confess yes
My dreams are a wonder about this
This love I possess love
Must be the dreams of our fathers
I wanna go I wanna run
We turn and so sure someone's looking down
It's haunting me haunting me
Leaves us here to get out
Though I don't believe I don't believe
This flavor in my mouth
Is from my tongue alone
So bitter I wanna spit it out
I repeat these words
They come out
Under the blue light in this sky
My empty pages are filling up
With these wicked lies
But I hear deep in myself
An echo and echo
Of empty empty emptiness
Comes up and swells inside
Rain on my head, rain on me
Can give this up
Rain on my life, again and again
Why can't I dream this away from me
Look at you look at you find new
Bloated floating, go belly down
Belly up in the water
But who is this here that drowned
We followed a drunken man
Got us spinning round
But it's like he swallowed himself
And didn't leave us a way out
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Drive In, Drive Out
Written by David J. Matthews
Drive In, Drive Out
I hear more than I like to
So I boil my head in a sense of humor
I laugh at what I cannot change
I throw it all on the pyre again
Go then and do this
I'd do it for you
When all that I want is so badly to be
By myself again
It's going to drive me right out of my brain
Drive in drive out I'm leaving
Drive in drive out
I'll come back again
Drive in drive out I'm leaving
Drive in drive out
I don't care if we all turn to waste
So when I beg you avoid me
Because I smell of dirt
Hungry hungry boy
But you won't leave me all alone
The boy won't go
Sooner or later we're done
Sooner or later I'm gone
Because, because
Sooner or later we're gone
Sooner away
Ooh, my head is pounding now
God has all but left me behind
Not a sense of worry
I'm going to drive in and drive out again
Drive in drive out I'm leavin
Drive in drive out I'll come
Drive in drive out I'm leavin
Drive in drive out
I'm over this arrangement
Around here
Emptiness sounded so good
I want to drive you right into my world
Drive in drive out I'm leavin
Drive in drive out I'll come
Drive in drive out I'm leavin
Drive in drive out
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Everybody Wake Up (Our Finest Hour Arrives)
Written by Dave Matthews Band and Mark Batson
Everybody wake up
If you're living with your eyes closed
See the man with a bomb in his hand
Everybody wake up
Oh, baby, it's not easy sometimes
They build these walls ever higher and hide behind them
Seems an odd way to try and make things right
Oh I feel like I go crazy sometimes
Our finest hour arrives
See the pig dressed in his finest fine
The believers stand behind him and smile
As the day lights up with fire
Everybody wake up
If you're living with your eyes closed
See the man with a bomb in his hand
Everybody wake up
I remember the words of the misguided fool
Do unto others as you'd have them do
Not an eye for an eye is the golden rule
Just leaves a room full of blind men
And the finest hour arrives
See the pig dressed in his finest fine
Don't believe him leave and stand behind him and smile
As the day lights up with fire
Everybody wake up
Everybody wake up
If you're living with your eyes closed
See the man with a bomb in his hand
Everybody wake up
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Everyday
Written by David J. Matthews and Glen Ballard
Pick me up from the bottom
Up to the top love everyday
Pay no mind to taunts or advances
I take my chances on everyday
Left to right, up and down love
I push up love love everyday
Jump in the mud
Get your hands dirty with
Love it up everyday
All you need is
All you want is
All you need is love
Everyday
Pick me up love from the bottom
Up onto the top love everyday
Pay no mind to taunts or advances
I'm gonna take my chances everyday
Left to right, up and up and inside out right
Good love fight for everyday
Jump in the mud mud
Get my hands filthy love
Give it up love
Everyday
What you've got, lay it down on me
Lift me up love up from the bottom
Up onto the top love everyday
Pick me up love
Lift me up love
To the top love
Everyday
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Fool To Think
Written by David J. Matthews and Glen Ballard
Look at me dreaming of you
All I could hope is to have you
To have you walking with me
Laughing so in love we two
Almost drunkenly I did imbibe of this
Fantasy of you only
Was I a fool to think
The way you looked at me
I swear you did
But you looked away too quick
Was I a fool to think
That you would take me home, as if I was yours
Was I a fool to think at all
I've grown tired of love
You are the trouble with me
I watch you walk right by
I smile you do not notice me
Treat me recklessly
All you do is toss me pennies
But the silence in me is screaming
Won't you come and get me
You make a mess of me
I'd dance a thousand steps for you
If you say yes to me
I'll be whatever gets you through
You make a mess of me
Was I a fool
I'd dance a thousand steps for you
Was I a fool to think
Am I a fool for you
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Grace Is Gone
Written by David J. Matthews
Neon shines through smoky eyes tonight
It's 2 am - I'm drunk again it's heavy on my mind
I could never love again so much as I love you
Where you end where I begin is like a river going through
Take my eyes take my heart I need them no more
If never again they fall upon the one I so adore
Excuse me please one more drink
Could make it strong cause I don't need to think
She broke my heart my Grace is gone
One more drink and I'll move on
One drink to remember then another to forget
How could I ever dream to find sweet love like you again
One drink to remember and another to forget
Excuse me please one more drink
Could make it strong cause I don't need to think
She broke my heart my Grace is gone
One more drink and I'll move on
One more drink and I'll be gone
You think of things impossible and the sun refuse to shine
I woke with you beside me your cold hand lay in mine
Excuse me please one more drink
Could make it strong cause I don't need to think
She broke my heart my Grace is gone
One more drink and I'll go
Excuse me please one more drink
Could make it strong cause I don't need to think
She broke my heart my Grace is gone
One more drink and I'll move on
One more drink and I'll be gone
One more drink my Grace is gone
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Granny
Written by David J. Matthews
Hello, how are you doing today
I hope I find you feeling healthy
I'm So glad our paths crossed this time today
On our way into the night
We find love hiding here in the shadows in the darkness
maybe,its up to you and I to bring to the night
Love as I approach the tears they fall like rain you tell me
Baby your hearts into a thousand pieces
Now Stop only old and wise, with clouded eyes,
You can't see what I can't hide
Blindly throw my faith to the face
Of the next good thing to come my way
So here we are all of us stand around
We're leaning heavy on each other
Always wondering what is it lies behind
the worried eyes of one another
I Believe its love that's hiding here
in the shadows, in the darkness
Maybe its up to you and me to share it with the night
Love when I approach, my tears that fall like rain you tell me
Maybe, my heart's into a thousand pieces
Now Stop only old and wise, with clouded eyes
You can't see what I can hide
blindly throw my faith to the face
Of the next good thing that comes my way
I say its love so i can hear although I know enough to spare them
Maybe its up to you and I to share it with the night
Love me approach the tears they fall like rain you tell me
Baby your heart's into a thousand peices
Love
Baby
Love *dave jamming*
Baby
Love
Baby
*Repeat to end*
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Gravedigger
Written by David J. Matthews
Cyrus Jones, 1810 to 1913
Made his great granchildren believe
You could live to a hundred and three
A hundred and three is forever when you're just a little kid
So Cyrus Jones lived forever
Gravedigger
When you dig my grave
Could you make it shallow
So that I can feel the rain
Gravedigger
Muriel Stonewall, 1903 to 1954
She lost both of her babies in the second great war
Now you should never have to watch
Your only children lowered in the ground
I mean, you should never have to bury your own babies
Gravedigger
When you dig my grave
Could you make it shallow
So that I can feel the rain
Gravedigger
Ring around the rosy
Pocket full of posey
Ashes to ashes
We all fall down
Gravedigger
When you dig my grave
Could you make it shallow
So that I can feel the rain
Gravedigger
Little Mikey Carson, 67 to 75
He rode his
Bike like the devil until the day he died
When he grows up he wants to be Mr. Vertigo on the flying trapeze
Oh, 1940 to 1992
Gravedigger
When you dig my grave
Could you make it shallow
So that I can feel the rain
Gravedigger
When you dig my grave
Could you make it shallow
So that I can feel the rain
Feel the rain
I can feel the rain
Gravedigger
Gravedigger
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Grey Blue Eyes
Written by David J. Matthews & Trey Anastasio
I feel for the light
Your glory was lost that night
And no mind can't get me right
And now I'm praying that you'll find me out
Stone, stone has pulled me down
But my faith has got me bound to your grey blue eyes
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
Don't forget my broken heart
You remember it from the start
You made it and it's all a part
Of your grey blue eyes
Oh, oh
Oh, oh
You're gone and I know I'm dead
I've lost my way
Can't find me in your grey blue eyes
Grey blue eyes
Grey blue eyes
Grey blue eyes
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Grey Street
Written by David J. Matthews
Oh look at how she listens
She says nothing of what she thinks
She just goes stumbling through her memories
Staring out on to Grey Street
She thinks, "Hey,
How did I come to this?
I dream myself a thousand times around the world,
But I can't get out of this place"
There's an emptiness inside her
And she'd do anything to fill it in
But all the colors mix together - to grey
And it breaks her heart
How she wishes it was different
She prays to God most every night
And though she swears it doesn't listen
There's still a hope in her it might
She says, "I pray
But they fall on deaf ears,
Am I supposed to take it on myself?
To get out of this place"
There's loneliness inside her
And she'd do anything to fill it in
And though it's red blood bleeding from her now
It feels like cold blue ice in her heart
When all the colors mix together - to grey
And it breaks her heart
There's a stranger speaks outside her door
Says take what you can from your dreams
Make them as real as anything
It'd take the work out of the courage
But she says, "Please
There's a crazy man that's creeping outside my door,
I live on the corner of Grey Street and the end of the world"
There's an emptiness inside her
And she'd do anything to fill it in
And though it's red blood bleeding from her now
It's more like cold blue ice in her heart
She feels like kicking out all the windows
And setting fire to this life
She could change everything about her using colors bold and bright
But all the colors mix together - to grey
And it breaks her heart
It breaks her heart
To grey
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Halloween
Written by David J. Matthews
Lonely two chicken eyes open and staring up at me
Only two lonely eyes, so rare and raging...
Wind it would a come and she would leave you
Wind it would a come and she would go
Wind it would a come and she would leave you
Wind it would a come and she would go
Watchit man, leave it where you lie
I come for you, a-lightly, I suck up into your mind
We'll leave it all behind I selling you a lonely, I march up into your eyes
Lonely two chicken eyes
Open and staring up at me...
Wait until my momma gonna see me with a you
Take a good look, momma, gonna see me with a you
Take a good look, mama, let me tell you well my momma said "Lie..."
Hey man watch it where you lie, i come into your psyche
You're sleeping - I'm in your mind filled waiting on desire
I was hoping we'd be lonely
I suck up into your...
Why do you run around here
To ask why do you run around me
To ask why do you run around here
Ask why, then, why, then,
ask you silly fuck
I'm going away
Why this lonely, why this lonely
Why this lonely love
Why this lonely, why this lonely
Why this lonely love for me...
Carry on, carry on, carry on
Carry on, carry on, carry on I will forget
Tell me are you satisfied with fucking?
Don't walk away
Don't walk away
Don't walk away
I'm talking to...
Lovey don't
Lovey dove
Lovey dove
Lovey dove
Loving, I'll see you
Love, love, love
Love him, I see you
Love, love, love
Love him - up to you.
Lonely love...
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Hello Again
Written by Dave Matthews Band
Sinnin' I've done my share of this
Still I hope the Lord forgive me my sins
Ten years ago down by the lake
I saw my sweet love - her watery grave
I closed my eyes still see her face
I'd give my soul to take back that day
Hello again
It's been too long,
Too long,
Too long,
Hello again
You know you got what it is I want
Anyway I'm gonna take it from you
Hello you know you got what it is I want anyway I know I'm gonna take it from you
Hello
Hello
You know
Hello again
Over and over I'm gonna see her face
I like to side my soul together well, man
Over and over I'm gonna see her face blown away on that day, I am
I am a waste of the flesh on my bones
I am a waste of the air in my lungs
Go far from me man go and be safe
The serpent, not God pours through my veins
Here we go
Hello again its been too long, too long, too long, hello again
You know you got what it is I want anyway I'm gonna take it from you
Hello again you know you got it what I want anyway I'm gonna take it from you
Hello
Hello
You know
Hello again
Tuck a low dock shelter me (?), but
Over and over I'm gonna see her face
Come at me it likes the devil's skin, man
Over and over I'm gonna see her face blown away on that day, yeah
Hello
You know
Hello
Hello again
You know you got what it is I want anyway
You know, my love, I'm gonna take it from you
Hello
You know
Hello
Hello again
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Hunger For the Great Light
Written by Dave Matthews Band and Mark Batson
Oh great light of love
Oh great light of love
Oh great light of love
Here you go, you dirty girl
Good God, try to love try to oh
God's love is alive inside you
You know who needs you
I wanna be your hunger
I wanna see you open wide
And then I go down for you
I wanna blow your mind
It's my aim to kill you
My aim to love you
You and I such a pretty thing
Smile, smile, you know you thrill me
Cross your heart and hope to die
You know I'd love to
I wanna be your hunger
I wanna see you open wide
And when I go down for you
I wanna blow your mind
You and I, oh, oh
Shine, shine
Oh great light of love
Oh great light of love
Oh great light of love
Oh great light of love
You come like an answered prayer
Praise God, try to love try to oh
I have the little death's delight
Oh, I love you?
I wanna be your hunger
I wanna see you open wide
And when I go down for you
I wanna blow your mind
You, you, hey you
You, you, ohh
You, you, ohh
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I Did It
Written by David J. Matthews and Glen Ballard
I'm mixing up a bunch of magic stuff
A magic mushroom cloud of care
A potion that will rock the boat will rock
Make a bomb of love and blow it up
I did it
Do you think I've gone too far?
I did it
Guilty as charged
I did it
It was me right or wrong
I did it
Yeah
I never did a single thing that did a single thing to
Change the ugly ways of the world
I didn't know it felt so right inside
I didn't know at all
Open up the curtains I heard sirens there
The lights flash and crawl
But I did it justice I just did it for the buzz
It's a nickel or a dime for what I've done
The truth is that I don't really care
For such a lovely crime I'll do the time
You better lock me up I'll do it again
I did it
Do you think I've gone too far?
I did it
Guilty as charged
I did it
It was me right or wrong
I did it
Yeah
I never did a single thing that did a single thing to
Change the ugly ways of the world
I didn't know it felt so right inside
I didn't know at all
Open up the curtains I heard sirens there
The lights flash and crawl
But I did it justice I swear I did it for us all
All you people are the skewers of our dreams
Like the cat that collared me
Oh what I gotta say to you got love don't turn it down
Turn it loud, let it build
We got a long way to go
But you gotta start somewhere
Go door to door spread the love you got
You got the love, you get what you want
Does it matter where you get it from
I for one don't turn my cheek for anyone
Unturn your cheek to give your love, love to grow
I did it
Do you think I've gone too far?
I did it
Guilty as charged
I did it
It was me right or wrong
I did it
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I told you, I told you I did
I did it
Guilty as charged
I did it
I told you, I told you I did
I did it
Yeah
I never did a single thing that did a single thing to
Change the ugly ways of the world
I didn't know it felt so right inside
I didn't know at all
Open up the curtains I heard sirens there
The lights flash and crawl
But I did it justice I swear I did it for us all
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If I Had It All
Written by David J. Matthews and Glen Ballard
Sometimes I can't move my feet it seems
As if I'm stuck in the ground somehow like a tree
As if I can't even breathe
And my screams come whispering out
As if nobody can even see me, like a ghost
I can't see myself sometimes
Then again if I were a king, if I had everything
If I had you and I could give you your dreams
If I were giant size, on top of it all
Tell me what in the world would I sing for
If I had it
Sometimes I feel lost
As I pull you out like strings of memories
Wish I could weave them into you
And I could figure the whole damn puzzle out
I could take anything
If I had no greed to big
Just poison tainting the green
Remembering time
Much younger than me now
When my breath was light
When the world raised me kind
Here the mother comforts child
Every moment was waking up
But now I have grown tired
If I had it all
Oh I'd fuck it up sure
If I were a king, if I had everything
Piece by piece
If had you, if I could give you your dreams
If I were giant size, on top of it all
Then why in the world would I sing
If I had it all
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I'll Back You Up
Written by David J. Matthews
I remember thinking
I'll go on forever only knowing
I'll see you again
But I know
The touch of you is so hard to remember
But like that touch I know no other
And for sure we have danced
In the risk of each other
Would like to dance
Around the world with me
I'll be falling all about my own thing
And I know you're the heaviest weight
When you're not here that's hung
Around my head
And your lips burn wild
Thrown from the face of a child
And in your eyes
The seeing of the greatest few
Do what you will, always
Walk where you like, your steps
Do as you please, I'll back you up
I remember thinking
Sometimes we walk
Sometimes we run away
But I know
No matter how fast we are running
Somehow we keep
Somehow we keep up with each other
I'll be falling all about my own thing
And I know you're the heaviest weight
When you're not here that's hung
Around my head
And your lips burn wild
Thrown from the face of a child
And in your eyes
The seeing of the greatest few
Do what you will, always
Walk where you like, your steps
Do as you please, I'll back you up
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Jimi Thing
Written by David J. Matthews
Lately I've been feeling low
A remedy is what I'm seeking
Take a taste of what's below
Come away to something better
What I want is what I've not got
But what I need is all around me
Reaching searching never stop
And I'll say...
If you could keep me floating just for a while
'Til I get to the end of this tunnel, mummy
If you could keep me floating just for a while
I'll get back to you
Take a Jimi Thing
Just to keep me swingin'
I'd like to show you what's inside
I shouldn't care if you don't like it
Brother chaos rules all about
Sometimes I walk there
Yes, God knows sometimes I take a bus
I should't care I shouldn't care bereaved as
I'm feeling
Day is gone I'm on my back
Staring up at the ceiling
I take a drink sit back relax
Smoke my mind makes me feel
Better for a short time
What I want is what I've not got
What I need is all around me
Reaching searching never stop
And I'll say
If you could keep me floating just for a while
'Til I get to the end of this tunnel...mummy
If you could keep me floating just for a while
I'll get back to you
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Joyride (Stand Up Companion CD)
Written by Dave Matthews Band
Hey...
C'mon c'mon, all y'all...
If we get it right, we gonna eat the world...
If you got a question, then just get in line,
Cause my intentions, are to make you mine.
I take care of everything,
And all you need friend, is right here.
Oh if your lost, I got a bobble-head-Jesus,
It only cost you to get on your knees.
The money is clean cause we scrub it good
with guns and gasoline we're gonna save the world
nothing's obscene if we only close our eyes
Boys and Girls welcome to this Joyride
C'mon, all y'all!
listen up! And we gonna steal the world.
Now if your lost, I got a bobble-head-Buddah,
Legs crossed, but is in the groove.
The money is clean cause we scrub it good,
With guns and gasoline we're could save the world.
Nothing's obscene if we only close our eyes,
Boys and Girls welcome to this Joyride.
Joyride...
Joyride...
Joyride...
Joyride...
If you'r confused, if your unsure,
Be sure of this, will use you well.
And if your lost, I will find the way.
Give me your soul friend, its ok...
Joy...
Yeaaaaas
Yeaaaaas
Yeaaaaas
Everythings playing out
Yeaaaaas
Yeaaaaas
Yeaaaaas
Everythings playing out
Right your tips into this.
Hu, hu yea, shut up, shut up, shoop, shoop,
And get in line, you can get in,
Oh oh, light up, light up,
You goin, out.
Money is clean cause we scrub it good
with guns and gasoline we're gonna save the world
nothing's obscene cause we only close our eyes
Boys and Girls welcome to this Joyride
Mmm, its a joyride...
In this joyride...
Joyride...
Yeap!
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JTR
Written by David J. Matthews
I drink you up
For every drop of you is sacred
Every drop I drink you up
You fill my cup
The way you laugh
Eyes of a child
Lean on me, you fill me up
You make me love
So unconditionally generous
To me you give me love
And break my heart
Slip, you fall, I pick you up and dust you off
You break my heart
Rain, rain, rain down on me
Again and again
Rain down on me
Take all you want
For what is mine is yours
No better use is there for what I've got
Take all you want
And only hope can I, you won't deny
Your love for me, my love
No, don't cry, if it's too high
I lift you up, we'll make it, make it
When I was oh so tired
You come along to wake me, wake me
Time and time, again and again
With a smile you save me child
Oh, oh, oh...
Rain, rain, rain down on me
Again and again
Rain down on me
Look, we play our cards
And I question by the grace of what
We play our cards at all
Come fill me up
Oh, fill me love when I'm empty
when I'm all dried up
No, dont cry, if it's too high
I lift you up, we'll make it, make it
Oh, I was so so tired
You come along to wake me, wake me
Time and time, again and again
With a smile you save me child
Oh, oh, oh...
Rain, rain, rain down on me
Again and again
Rain down on me
Rain, rain, rain down on me...
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Kit Kat Jam
Written by David J. Matthews
Hey, golden girl, with your hair swinging down
All of this love you have going round
What will you do when the gold turns to grey?
Have you thought now
Well, what the hay, give us some
Cover yourself with the safety of lies
You'll find it's easier 'til you face dying
Oh, sweetest smile in a confident come along
All of this longing you will done
Up and out, goes to your heart
And you will make yourself higher up, little fool
And love and go down and pay to go on
We'll lie on water, and oh
On the way back I slip on the ceiling
Caught you just then, hands were in the cookie jar
How can we share when you sneak up and go?
I've no intention of losing by beard
How they design and then we go again
Oh God, them horses were racing
And, oh, bring me down
Could put Humpty Dumpty back together again
Now the wall won't hold anyone
I walk in the slide
Wait and reach your lady
This is the short one
Short way to lay in
Oh, let her leave my hand I've given up
Whoa, how is too late now
Oh, free, just...
Were you lying?
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Last Stop, The
Written by David J. Matthews and Stefan Lessard
Silence is poetry
Fire
The sun is well asleep
Moon is high above
Fire grows from the east
How is this
Hate so deep
Lead us all so blindly killing killing
Fools we are
If hate's the gate to peace
This is the last stop
For raining tears
War
The only way to Peace
I don't fall for that
Raining tears
You're righteous, so righteous, so righteous
You're always so right
Go ahead and dream
Go ahead believe that you are the chosen one
Raining tears
Oh no
Gracious even God
Bloodied on the cross
Your sins are washed enough
Mother's cry
"Is hate so deep
Must a baby's bones
This hungry fire feed?"
As smoke clouds roll in
The symphony of death
This is the last stop
Scream
Right is wrong now
Shut up you big lie
This black and white lie
You comb your hair to hide
Your lying eyes
You're righteous, so righteous, so righteous
You're always so right
But why your lie
Go ahead and dream
Go ahead believe that you are the chosen one
This is the last stop
Here there's more than is showing up
Hope that we can break it down
So it's not so black and white
This is the last stop
Here there's more than is showing up
Hope that we can break it down
So it's not so black and white
You're righteous
You're righteous
You're righteous
You're always so right
But there you are nailing a good tree
Then say forgive me, forgive me
Why
Go ahead and dream
Go ahead believe that you are the chosen one
Raining tears
This is the last stop
Here there is more than is showing up
But I hope that we can break it down
It's not so black and white
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Let You Down
Written by David J. Matthews
I let you down
Let me pick you up
I let you down
Let me climb up you to the top
So I can see the view from up there
Tangled in your hair
I let you down
I have no lid upon my head
But if I did
You could look inside and see what's on my mind
You could look inside and see what's on my mind
I let you down, oh, forgive me
You give me love
Let me walk with you, maybe I could say
Maybe talk with you, open up
And let me through
Don't walk away
Don't walk away
I have no lid upon my head
But if I did
You could look inside and see what's on my mind
You could look inside and see what's on my mind
How could I be such a fool like me
I let you down
Tail between my legs
I'm a puppy for you love
I'm a puppy for you love
I have no lid upon my head
But if I did
You could look inside and see what's on my mind, oh it's you
I let you down
I'm a puppy for your love
I'm a puppy for your love
Forgive me
Forgive me
Forgive me
I let you down
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Lie in Our Graves
Written by David J. Matthews
When I step into the light
My arms are open wide
When I step into the light
My eyes searching wildly
Would you not like to be
Sitting on top of the world with
your legs hanging free
Would you not like to be OK, OK, OK?
When I'm walking by the water
Splish splash me and you takin a bath
When I'm walking by the water
Come up through my toes
To my ankles
To my head
To my soul
And I'm blown away
When I'm walking by the water
Splish splash me and you takin a bath
When I'm walking by the water
Come up through my toes
To my ankles
To my head
To my soul
And I'm blown away
I can't believe that we would
lie in our graves
Wondering if we had
spent our living days well
I can't believe that we would
lie in our graves
Dreaming of things that we
might have been
I can't believe that we would
lie in our graves
Wondering if we had
spent our living days well
I can't believe that we would
lie in our graves
Dreaming of things that we
might have been
Would you not like to be
I can't believe that you
would not like to be
Would you not like to be
OK, OK, OK
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Little Thing (Live at Luther College)
Written by David J. Matthews
So, um, so we've been doing this, uh, this tour, what I guess this is our fifth show we've done, Tim and I, and, uh... (applause) And, uh, so this little song has been growing out, uh, while we've been playing, sort of a little story. And the little story I was in New York City and, uh, I was walking down the street. Trying to find the place I was going (I can't remember where I was going now). 'Cause I met this girl and I asked her directions, you know. And she was, she was tiny, you know. She, she wasn't young, she was just tiny. And, uh, so I asked her directions and she said, 'Oh that's the way down there, walk over there, go down there, you walk over there, and you go down there and then you're there.' Something like that, anyway. So, uh, but I walked about ten paces away and I was thinking... Daaamn, that girl was fine. And, oh, I turned around to tell her so, and ask her maybe her name, or maybe if we should go and get a cup of, who knows, coffee or something. And I'm sure if I turned around and find
her there I would have found out something...
But she talked so good
But when I turned around, she was gone
Oh, she was gone
I didn't even get her name, oh
I thought, goddamn
With your face in my mind
And your voice in my ears
Still echoes
Oh, I bought a lovely flower
Standing there, we met that day
And hope that you would return
But, no, no, no
I can't remember where I was going
But I can't remember where I was leading to
Or what led me to you, but
Oh, and the weight is all through my head
The look of you, the sound
The way you cackled at me
From then and then, I didn't know where I was going
But always I cry
And so, hey, oh
The hands that pour my hands on you again
Hey, I will beg you, I'll beg, oh
See me, please find me again
Oh, I'm lost again
I sit here drinking coffee
Or water depending the time of day
But, oh, you're with me like a ghost of a mother
Oh, you're with me like the pain of a father
Oh, I wish I, I wish I could call you something
Other than the girl that I saw then
But, hey, I think that I would recognize you in a second
But, hey, I only saw you for a minute, maybe less
I don't hold my hand where
But I waited, honest
I'm lost now, I'm lost now
I can't remember what I used to be
But, oh, hey, yeah, weighted by the memory of
The memory of a love that never got born, but hey
Oh, hey
Do I even cross your mind lately
With more than just a laughing
Did you think as you walked away, maybe
You were, hey
Oh, I hope you did
So, hey, yeah
You would, you would have been feeling
The same thing as I am now
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Louisiana Bayou
Written by Dave Matthews Band and Mark Batson
No no momma now devil don't do-si-do
Two young boys lyin' dead by the side of the road
The coins in their eyes represent the money they owe
No judge or jury ever gonna hear the story told
Down by the bayou
Try to play with the caine
Try to play with the caine
Say my story again
(Louisiana) down by the bayou
Try to play with the caine
Try to play with the caine
Same old story again
Louisiana bayou
Sweet girl daddy done beat that girl like he's insane
Brother can't watch him beat that girl down again
So late one night cookin' up with a couple of friends
Swears his daddy never gonna see another day
Down by the bayou
Try to play with the caine
Try to play with the caine
Say my story again
(Louisiana) down by the bayou
Try to play with the caine
Try to play with the caine
Say my story again
Louisiana bayou
No, no, Mama, the devil done do-si-do
See 2 young boys lined up on the side of the road
Shame shame
Oh it's a shame to lose your way running wild
It's a shame to lose the light that shines (shame shame)
Oh it's a shame to lose your way as a child
Oh it's a shame to lose your...
Money on the bed but you ain't got to go
Sold your soul just trying to get over low
No empty pocket gonna keep you from getting yours
No judge or jury ever gonna hear the story told
Down by the bayou
Try to play with the caine
Try to play with the caine
Same old story again
Down by the bayou
Try to play with the caine
Try to play with the caine
Same old story again
No, no, Mama, tryin' devil done do-si-do
Two young boys lyin' dead by the side of the road
(Louisiana bayou) Down by the bayou
Tryin' to play with the 'caine
Tryin' to get with the pain
Say my story again
Louisiana bayou
Tryin' to play with the caine
Tryin' to play with the caine
Troubles do it again
Same old story again (Louisiana bayou)
Tryin' to play with the caine
Tryin' to play with the caine
Say my story again
(Louisiana bayou) Down by the bayou
Tryin' to play with the 'caine
Tryin' to play with the 'caine
Say my story again
(Louisiana bayou) Down by the bayou
Tryin' to play with the 'caine
Oh it's a shame to lose your way running wild (same old story again)
Oh it's a shame to lose the light that shines
Oh it's a shame to lose your way as a child
Oh (same old story again) it's a shame to lose your...
Down by the bayou
Louisiana bayou...
Louisiana bayou...
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Lover Lay Down
Written by David J. Matthews
Spring sweet rhythm dance in my head
Slip into my lover's hands
Kiss me oh won't you kiss me now
And sleep I would inside your mouth
Don't be us too shy
Knowing it's no big surprise
That I will wait for you
I will wait for no one but you
Look please lover lay down
Spend this time with me
Together share this smile
Lover lay down
Walk with me, walk with you
Hold my hand your hands
So much we have dreamed
And you were so much younger
Hard to explain that we are stronger
A million reasons life to deny
Let's toss them away
See you and me we
Lay down look see
She and he
By my lover's side
Together share this smile
Each other's tears to cry
Together share this smile
Lover lay down
Oh please
Look please lover lay down
Oh please lover lay down
And you weep
Lover lay down
Cause it's over
Lover lay down
Say lover, say lover, say lover, say lover, say lover
Could I love you
Could you love me
Could I love you
Could you love me
Could I love you
Could you love me
Could I love you
Could you love me
Darling it's
All the same
All the same
All the same
All the same
'Til we dance away
'Til we dance away
'Til we dance away
'Til we dance away
Chasing me all around
Leading me all around
Leading me all around in circles
Leading me all around in circles
Say...
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Loving Wings (ikke udgivet)
Written by David J. Matthews
My heart was made of broken bones
My soul a bag of stick and stone
But you along this dusty road
Have come my love to take me home.
So I give to you my everything
You've given me these loving wings
Angels have all gathered 'round
To hear me sing my love out loud.
Your lightly love lifted me away
Out of a darkness cold and gray
Now I work beneath the midday sun
My cool blue water you have come.
So I give to you my everything
You've given me these loving wings
Angels have all gathered 'round
To hear me sing my love out loud.
So take your place here next to me
And I'll take my place there next to thee
And no matter how far we may roam
It's by your side I'll make my home.
So I give to you my everything
You've given me these loving wings
Angels have all gathered 'round
To hear me sing my love out loud.
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Maker, The
Written by Daniel Lanois
Oh, oh deep water, black and cold like the night
I stand with arms wide open
I've run a twisted line
I'm a stranger in the eyes of the Maker
I could not see for the fog in my eyes
I could not feel for the fear in my life
From across the great divide, In the distance I saw a light
Of John Baptist walking to me with the Maker
My body my body is bent and broken by long and dangerous sleep
I can't work the fields of Abraham and turn my head away
I'm not a stranger in the hands of the Maker
Brother John, have you seen the homeless daughters
Standing here with broken wings
I have seen the flaming swords
There over east of eden
Burning in the eyes of the Maker
Burning in the eyes of the Maker
Burning in the eyes of the Maker
Oh, river rise from your sleep
Oh, river rise from your sleep
Oh, river rise from your sleep
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Minarets
Written by David J. Matthews
Santa Maria choose your children
Santa Maria virgin child
All our wars over you we are fighting
And all our time faith justifying
Brother caged Babylon will fall
Sister chained and bound, beaten and bleeding
The TV's on, to me this explains it
Wearing a tie like daddy speaks it
Screaming from the minarets
Later on we'll all be dancing
Screaming from the minarets
Yes indeed I'm making faces
Rain on the ground in a space
God has grown
Alone 'til a man looking glass in his hand
He is holding up to you
What you see
What you see
What you see
What you see is human
Screaming from the minarets
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Mother Father
Written by David J. Matthews and Glen Ballard
Mother Father please explain to me
Why a world so full of mystery
A place so bitter and still so sweet
So beautiful and yet so full of sad sad
Mother Father please explain to me
Why forests march to deserts be
While snow capped mountains melt away
What do we tell our babies
What do we say
Mother father please explain to me
How a man who rocks his child to sleep
Yet pulls the trigger on his brother's heart
He digs a hole right to the middle of a storm of hatred
Mother Father please explain to me
How it could be so this world has come to be
A precious balance in between
Such cruelty and such kindness please please
Mother Father please explain to me
How this world has come to be
Unequalled in her blessings oh I see
Unbridled hatred so extreme please tell me
Mother Father please explain to me
How the world has come to be so
Twisted between time and dreams
Oh Mother Father please explain to me
What's all this talk about
Spinning down down down down down
All this talk about
All these words without
And nothing done
Mother Father do you know
Why one mans belly overflows
Another sleeps in hungers bed
We'd trade our world for a piece of bread
Mother father please explain to me
How this rare worlds come to be
A place so full of color yet overflowing always
In black and white black and white
Drowning in the waters of our
Mother father please explain to me
How the world has come to be
While still blessed in all the things we see
Such a sad sad home for you and me
Come on
Come on out you save yourself
We're taking on water
But we've got the freedom
There's no God above, no hell below
It's here with us, it's up to us
To keep afloat
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Oh
Written by David J. Matthews
The world is blowing up
The world is caving in
The world has lost her way again
But you are here with me
But you are here with me
Makes it OK
I hear you still talk to me
As if you're sitting in that dusty chair
Makes the hours easier to bear
I know despite the years alone
I'll always listen to you sing your sweet song
And if it's all the same to you
I love you oh so well
Like a kid loves candy and fresh snow
I love you oh so well
Enough to fill up heaven, overflow, and fill hell
Love you oh so well
And it's cold and darkness falls
It's as if you're in the next room so alive
I could swear I hear you singing to me
I love you oh so well
Like a kid loves candy and fresh snow
I love you oh so well
Enough to fill up heaven, overflow, and fill hell
Love you oh so well
The world is blowing up
The world is caving in
The world has lost her way again
But you are here with me
But you are here with me
Makes it OK
Oh girl you are singing to me still
Like a kid loves candy and fresh snow
I love you oh so well
Enough to fill up heaven overflow and fill hell
Love you oh so well
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Old Dirt Hill (Bring That Beat Back)
Written by Dave Matthews Band and Mark Batson
Bring that beat back to me again
Come on take me back, can't catch me can't catch me
Bring that beat back to me again
Come on take me back, can't catch me can't catch me
Can't catch me ride my bike down the old dirt hill,
First time without my training wheels.
First time I kissed you I lost my legs,
Bring that beat back to me again.
I scream and shout out loud of innocence
And days when all we did would never end.
Bring that beat back to me again
Come on take me back, can't catch me can't catch me
Bring that beat back to me again
Come on take me back, take me there, can't catch me can't catch me
Smoking under the railroad bridge
I used to ride my bike down that old dirt hill
The first time I kissed you I lost my legs
Bring that beat back to me again
I hear scream and shout out loud of innocence
Days when all we did would never end
Screaming down that old dirt hill
Bring that beat back to me again
She stole...
That's when the days I remember seem so far away
When I was just a kid
That's what I miss
Just a kid
That's what I miss
Oh take me back, take me back to that beat again
Smoking under the railroad bridge
Bring that beat back to me again
Bring that beat back to me again
Bring that beat back to me again
First time all with good, good friends.
(Can't catch me, can't catch me)
Bring that beat back to me again
Bring that beat back to me again
Bring that beat back to me again
Bring that beat back to me again
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One Sweet World
Written by David J. Matthews
Nine planets round the sun
Only one does the sun embrace
Upon this watered one
So much we take for granted
So let us sleep outside tonight
Lay down in our mother's arms
For here we can rest safely
If green should slip to gray
But our hearts still bloody be
And if mountains crumble away
And the river dry
Would it stop the stepping feet
Take all that we can get
When it's done
Nobody left to bury here
Nobody left to dig the holes
And here we can rest safely
One sweet world
Around a star is spinning
One sweet world
And in her breath I'm swimming
And here we will rest in peace
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Out of My Hands
Written by Dave Matthews Band and Mark Batson
Out on my window ledge
I don't feel safe
And I stay
Looking down on you
It's out of my hands for now
It's out of my hands for now
I can't just walk away
Be nice to walk away
But I don't feel safe
Get away, all the way up here
Its out of my hands for now
Its out of my hands for now
Oh, it is
Down in from here
Down from here
Start to feel insane
Betrayed
Out on my window ledge
Now our finest hour arrives
See the pig dressed in his finest fine
And all the believers stand behind him and smile
Watch the day's lights up with fire
Let me in
Let me in
I start to feel like I'm crazed
Betrayed
Out on my window ledge
Now our finest hour arrives
See the pig dressed in his finest fine
And all the believers stand behind him and smile
Watch the day's lights up with fire
Looking down from here
It's out of my hands for now
Out on my window ledge
It's out of my hands for now
So let me in
Let me in
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Pantala Naga Pampa
Written by David J. Matthews
Come and relax now, put your troubles down
No need to bear the weight of your worries here
Let them all fall away
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Pay For What You Get
Written by David J. Matthews
Work ourselves, fingers to the bone
Suck the marrow, drain my soul
Fingers to the bone
Pay your dues, and your debts
Pay your respects, everybody tells you
You pay for what you get
You pay for what you get
Everybody asks me how she's doin'
Has she really lost her mind?
I said, I couldn't tell you
I've lost mine
Words, words, words, have you heard
A bird in hand is much better than,
Any number free to wander
Fly away... Stay
You pay for what you get
You pay for what you get
Everybody asks me how she's doing
Is she really all she says...
Everybody asks me how she's doing
Since she went away
I said I couldn't tell you
I'm OK I'm OK (I'm OK)
Surprise, surprise
You pay for what you get
You pay for what you get
Everybody asks me how she's doing
Has she really lost her...
Everybody asks me how she's doing
Since she went away
I said I couldn't tell you
I'm OK I'm OK I'm OK (How are you?)
Pay for what you get
Pay for what you get...oh...
Pay for what you get
Pay for what you get oh...
Oh...
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People, People (ikke udgivet)
Written by Dave Matthews Band
Seven tumbling oceans surround
The ground that I built upon
Black and white and the rainbow five
Colors in my eyes
Seven tumbling oceans surround
The ground that I built upon
Black and white and the rainbow five
Colors in my eyes
People People
What are we doing in here
Oh, People
When are we done with this
People People
What are we doing in here
Oh, People
When are we done with this
When we fight over the ocean
When we fight over the sky, still why?
When we fight over our borders
Then we, our brothers and sisters remind
Tell me
Why is it so cold in here
Seven tumbling oceans surround
The ground that I built upon
Black and white and the rainbow five
Colors in my eyes
When we stand in our mothers arms no feeling of emptiness
When we stand in our mothers hands we can see this
When we fight over the oceans
When we fight over the sky, still why?
When we fight over our borders
Then we, our brothers and sisters we deny,
Tell me why do we do it
Why do we do it,
Oh, oh yeah
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Pig
Written by David J. Matthews, Stefan Lessard, Carter Beauford, Leroi Moore and Boyd Tinsley
Isn't it strange
How we move our lives for another day
Like skipping a beat
What if a great wave should wash us all away
Just thinking out loud
Don't mean to dwell on this dying thing
But looking at blood
It's alive right now
Deep and sweet within
Pouring through our veins
Intoxicate moving wine to tears
Drinking it deep
Then an evening spent dancing
It's you and me
This love will open our world
From the dark side we can see the glow of something bright
There's much more than we see here
Don't burn the day away
Don't burn the day
Don't burn the day away
Is this not enough?
This blessed sip of life, is it not enough?
Staring down at the ground
Oh, then complain and pray for more from above,
You greedy little pig,
Stop, just watch your world trickle away
Oh, it's your problem now
It'll all be dead and gone in a few short years
Oh, just love will open our eyes
Just love will put the hope back in our minds
Much more than we could ever know
Oh, so don't burn the day away
Don't burn the day away
Oh, come sisters, my brothers,
Shake up your bones, shake up your feet,
I'm saying, open up and let the rain come pouring in
Wash out this tired notion
Oh, that the best is yet to come
But oh, while you're dancing on the ground,
Don't think of, oh, when you're gone
Love, love, love, what more is there?
'Cause we need the light of love in here
Don't beat your head, dry your eyes, let the love in there,
There's bad times but that's okay, just look for love in there
And don't burn the day away
Look, here are we,
On this starry night, staring into space
And I must say, I feel as small as dust lying down here
Oh, what point could there be troubling
Head down, wondering, "what will become of me?"
Why concern? We cannot see but no reason to abandon it
The time is short, time, that's all right
Maybe I'll go out in the middle of the night,
And take your hand, look in your eyes, my love
All good things must come to an end sometime
Oh, but don't burn the day away
Don't burn the day away
Oh, come sisters, my brothers,
Shake up your bones, shake up your feet,
I'm saying open up and let the rain come flooding in
Wash out this tired notion
That the best is yet to come
But, oh, while you're dancing on the ground
Don't think of when you're gone
Love, love, love, what more is there?
'Cause we need the light of love in here
Don't beat your head, and dry your eyes, let the love in there
The bad times, well that's okay,
Let's just look for love in here, yeah
Just let the love in there,
Oh love, light up
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Proudest Monkey
Written by David J. Matthews
Swing in this tree
Oh I am bounce around so well
Branch to branch,
limb to limb you see
All in a day's dream
I'm stuck
Like the other monkeys here
I am a humble monkey
Sitting up in here again
But then came the day
I climbed out of these safe limbs
Ventured away
Walking tall, head high up and singing
I went to the city
Car horns, corners and the gritty
Now I am the proudest monkey you've ever seen
Monkey see, monkey do
Then comes the day
Staring at myself I turn to question me
I wonder do I want the simple, simple life that I once lived in well
Oh things were quiet then
In a way they were the better days
But now I am the proudest monkey you've ever seen
Monkey see, monkey do
Monkey see, monkey do
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Rapunzel
Written by David J. Matthews, Stefan Lessard and Carter Beauford
Open wide
Oh, so good I'll eat you
Take me for a ride
In your sweet delicious
Perfect little mouth
Thereupon I linger
You will have no doubt
That I'll do my best for you, I do
Love
Let's stop to get it going
Lost myself just thinking
About the two of us
From each other drinking
Begin with the lips
Fingertips and kissing
Turn me inside out
I do my best for you
Up and down we go
From the top you push me
This is such a thrill
Lost in love and dancing
Shake your tambourine
You blow my head open
Of one thing I'm sure
I do my best for you I do
For you I would crawl
Through the darkest dungeon
Climb the castle wall
If you are my Rapunzel
You let your hair down
Right in through your window
Good they locked the door
'Cause I do my best for you
I think the world of you
All of my heart I do
Blood through my veins for you
You alone have all of me
I give my world to you
To you I will be true
Too good to be real
The smell of something cooking
My soul you're to steal
Food of love we're filling
What you've given me
For it there is no measure
Of one thing I am know
Is I'll give my best for you
I think the world of you
With all of my heart I do
This blood through my veins for you
You alone have all of me
From you my strength is so full
To carry your burdens, too
And I give my world to you
Hip lock up so tight
You drive me crazy
Crazy is all right
With you looking at me
You make me feel high
Every single thing you do to me is like I'm drunk
I'll do my best for you, I do
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Raven
Written by David J. Matthews
What you got what you got in your hand? - a father said to son
I got the whole world here Daddy between my fingers and my thumb
Well you take care of it please - it's the only one
Well it would take me a lifetime old man to undo what you've done
To undo what you've done
Oh come on now boy think what would Jesus do?
He shake his head like an angry mother - smoke the boy and say I did what I could do
But you take care of it please - it's the only one you got
And it'd take ten lifetimes boy to undo what I've done
Boy shrugged walked away
The man stood and watched as he was leaving
Boy just walked away
The man stood alone thinking
One hand is bleeding and the other hand holds a gun
While everything is open everything is shut down, down, down
Begin to ending is really just a go round and round and round
As I stand here - the ground beneath is nothing more than one point of view
What you got what you got in your hand? Your secret's safe with me
Well I found the truth friend let me whisper in your ear
Take good care of it please - it's the only one there is
Can I twist it please can I give it just a little twist
Boy shrugged walked away
The man stood and watched as he was leaving
Boy just walked away
The man stood there twisting
One hand is bleeding and the other hand holds a gun
Everything is open now everything is shut down, down, down
No one is holding even if you even if your sure
You never know it all the ground beneath is nothing more than my point of view
Boy shrugged walked away
The man stood and watched as he was leaving
Boy just walked away
The man stood there twisting
One hand is open and the other hand holds the gun
Everything is open now is everything coming down, down, down
No one is hoping even if you even if you know
You never know it all - nothing more than, nothing more than my point of view
Boy shrugged walked away
The man stood and watched as he was leaving
The man stood there twisting
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Recently
Written by David J. Matthews
Recently I've been
All of content and dreaming I have been
'Cause I been lately seeing
Quite a bit of this woman live on my street
People stare and we just ignore everything
People stare and we just ignore them
And they go away, go away
She comes to me
I watch her drink
I watch her comb her hair
Both say that we never before have
Felt as recently
People stare and we just ignore
What's the use in hiding out
She says all the time
Let their eyes do the worrying about
She and me go to places quiet
Where we are quite alone
Kiss and we hold together
We will be until we done
People stare and we just ignore
What's the use in hiding out
She says all the time
Let their eyes do the worring about
Both say the we never before
Never before have felt as recently
People stare and we just ignore everything
People stare and we just ignore them
And they go away, go away
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Rhyme & Reason
Written by David J. Matthews
Oh well oh well so here we stand
But we stand for nothing
My heart calls to me in my sleep
How can I turn to it
'Cause I'm all locked up in this
Dark place - and I do not know
I'm good as dead
My head aches - warped and tied up
I need to kill this pain
My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
'Til I'm dead and gone
My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
'Til I'm six feet under ground
How long I'm tied up
My mind in knots - my stomach reels
In concern for what I might do or
What I've done
It's got me living in fear
Well I know these voices must
Be my soul
I've had enough
I've had enough
Of being alone
I've got no place to go
My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
'Til I'm dead and gone
My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
'Til I'm six feet under ground
In my grave
Lying wired shut and quiet in my grave
Leave me here
Leave it to me to waste here
So young here I am again
Talking to myself
A TV blares
Oh man oh how I wish I didn't smoke
Or drink to reason with my head
But sometimes this thick confusion
Grows until I cannot bare it all
Needle to the vein
Needle to the vein
Take this needle from my vein my friend
My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
'Til I'm dead and gone
My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
'Til I'm six feet under ground
In my grave
Lying lying cold in my grave
Reason - my reason
Take my head off this terror
I'm fearing I'll come back
I'll see
My mind's all wiped clean
The needle
Make my great escape
I'll see the cold in time
My head leaves me behind
Let me fade away
I seem caught in time
My head leaves me behind
Body falls cold
And I see heaven
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Satellite
Written by David J. Matthews
Satellite in my eyes
Like a diamond in the sky
How I wonder
Satellite strung from the moon
And the world your balloon
Peeping tom for the mother station
Winter's cold spring erases
And the calm away by the storm is chasing
Everything good needs replacing
Look up, look down all around, hey satellite
Satellite, headlines read
Someone's secrets you've seen
Eyes and ears have been
Satellite dish in my yard
Tell me more, tell me more
Who's the king of your satellite castle?
Winter's cold spring erases
And the calm away by the storm is chasing
Everything good needs replacing
Look up, look down all around, hey satellite
Rest high above the clouds no resrictions
Television we bounce 'round the world
And while I spend these hours
Five senses reeling,
I laugh about the weatherman's satellite eyes.
Satellite in my eyes
Like a diamond in the sky
How I wonder
Satellite strung from the moon
And the world your balloon
Peeping tom for the mother station
Winter's cold spring erases
And the calm away by the storm is chasing
Everything good needs replacing
Look up, look down all around, hey satellite
Rest high above the clouds no restrictions
Television you bounce from the world
And while I spend these hours
Five senses reeling
I laugh about this world in my satellite eyes
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Save Me
Written by David J. Matthews
Driving through the desert I met a man
Who told me of his crazy plan
He'd been walking there for 20 days
He was going to walk on
For 20 more
I said "How about a drink or a bite to eat?"
He said "No, my faith is all I need"
So then, save me
Save me mister walking man
If you can
You don't need to prove a thing to me
Just give me faith, make me believe
Come on, save me
Save me, mister walking man
If you can
Come on, save me
Save me, mister stranger
If you please save me
Save me
Stranger, if you please
Or am I too far gone
I see to get back home
To get back home
How about you take a ride with me
We could kill some time, shoot the breeze
He said, "every whispering wind and second counts"
Oh, maybe if you walk, but you should drive around
Save me
Save me
Mister walking man, if you can
Come on, save me, save me
Mister stranger, if you please
Save me, save me
Stranger, if you please
Or am I too far gone
To get back home
To get back home
I don't need you to stall for some time, no
I don't need you to turn water into wine, no
I don't need you to, to fly
I'm just asking you to save me
(You might try savin' yourself)
I'm gonna save me
(You might try savin' yourself)
I swear those lips shine
(You might try savin' yourself)
As it, the moon, the moon it shines
(You might try savin' yourself)
Why don't you, save me
(You might try savin' yourself)
Come on and save me
(You might try savin' yourself)
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Say Goodbye
Written by David J. Matthews
So here we are tonight,
You and me together
The storm outside, the fire is bright
And in your eyes I see
What's on my mind
You've got me wild
Turned around inside
And then desire, see, is creeping
up heavy inside here
And know you feel the same way
I do now
Now let's make this an evening
Lovers for a night, lovers for tonight
Stay here with me, love, tonight
just for an evening
When we make
our passion pictures
You and me twist up
Secret creatures
And we'll stay here
Tomorrow go back to being friends
Go back to being friends
But tonight let's be lovers,
We kiss and sweat
We'll turn this better thing
To the best
Of all we can offer, Just a rogue kiss
Tangled tongues and lips,
See me this way
I'm turning and turning for you
Girl, just tonight
Float away here with me
An evening just wait and see
But tomorrow go back to your man
I'm back to my world
And we're back to being friends
Wait and see me,
Tonight let's do this thing
All we are is wasting hours until the sun comes up it's all ours
On our way here
Tomorrow go back to being friends
Go back to being friends
Tonight let's be lovers, say you will
And hear me call, soft-spoken whispering love
A thing or two I have to say here
Tonight let's go all the way then
Love I'll see you,
Just for this evening
Let's strip down, trip out at this
One evening starts with a kiss
Run away
And tomorrow
Back to being friends
Lovers...love...lovers
Just for tonight, one night...love you
And tomorrow say goodbye
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Seek Up
Written by David J. Matthews
Sometimes I feel like I'm falling
Fall back again, fall back again,
Fall back again, fall back again
Oh, life it seems a struggle between
What we think what we see
I'm not going to change my ways
Just to please you or appease you
Inside a crowd, five billion proud
Willing to punch it out
Right, wrong, weak, strong
Ashes to ashes all fall down
Look around about this round
About this merry-go-round around
If at all God's gaze upon us fall
His mischievous grin, look at him
Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that
Our emotions can be swept away
Forget about being guilty,
We are innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away
Sit awhile with TV's hungry child
Big belly swelled
Oh, for a price of a coke or a smoke
Keep alive those hungy eyes
Take a look at me, what you see in me,
Mirror look at me
Face it all, face it all again
Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that your emotions can be
Wept away, kept at bay
Forget about being guilty, I am innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away
You seek up an emotion
And our cup is overflowing
You seek up an emotion,
Sometimes your well is dry
You seek up a big monster
For him to fight your wars for you
But when he finds his way to you, the devil's not
Going--ha, ha
Say, say
Look at me in my fancy car
And my bank account
Oh, how I wish I could take it all down
Into my grave, I'd save
Take a look again, take a look again,
Take a look again
Everyday things change...stay the same
Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that
Your emotions can be swept away
Intentions are not wicked,
Don't be tricked into thinking so
Soon we will all find our lives swept away
You seek up an emotion
And our cup is overflowing
You seek up an emotion,
Sometimes your well is dry
You seek up a big monster
For him to fight your wars for you
But when he finds his way to you,
The devil's not going - ha, ha
Fall back again, fall back again, fall back again
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Sleep To Dream Her
Written by David J. Matthews and Glen Ballard
I know I'll miss her later
Wish I could bend my love to hate her
Wish I could be her creator
To twist her arms now
She stares up at the stars when
The stars fell from her hair then
I bent down to collect them
And then she was gone
Oh I sleep just to dream her
I beg the night just to see her
That my only love should be her
Just to lie in her arms
Oh I came there to find out
Find out she made up her mind
My arms are all tied up
To me she was blind
This space between us
Where wingless dreams fall earless
Will you not bear me witness
With your back to me now
It seems so unnerving
Yet still somehow deserving
That she could hold my heart so tightly
And still not see me here
I know I'll miss her later
I wish I could bend my love to hate her
Wish I could be her creator
To be the light in her eyes
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Smooth Rider
Written by Dave Matthews Band and Mark Batson
Last night, no way
I was gonna be left hungry
And then your daddy caught me sneakin' out your bed.
It's just a game I play
It's just I roll that way
Don't think, sweet baby
I'm messing with your head.
I'm a smooth rider, baby
You know I just keep moving on,
Don't know why I like to carry on the way I do why
It's just that I'm in love with you
If you see me out there runnin'
And you hear the sheriffs comin'
Your daddy's crazy with that gun in his hand.
If you know they're coming for me
And you know they're running for me
You know my love won't let them keep me away
I'm a smooth rider, baby
You know I just keep moving on,
I don't know I like to carry on the way I do
It's just that I'm in love with you
If you see me out there running
And if you hear the sheriff's coming
Your daddy's crazy with that gun in his hand.
If you know they're coming for me
And you know they're running for me
You know my love won't let them keep me away
I'm a smooth rider, baby
Oh, I'm a smooth rider, baby
Oh, they out there runnin'...
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So Damn Lucky
Written by David J. Matthews & Stephen Harris
Everything's different
My head in the clouds
I hit this corner
With my foot on the gass
I started sliding, I lose it
Everything's different just like that
Oh my God, wait and see
What will soon become of me?
Frozen heart
Screaming wheels
Does that screaming come from me?
So damn lucky, when went on ahead
You say, you say
I see you later
I heard what you said a few minutes later
I'm sliding
Everything's different, again
Oh my God, wait and see
What will soon become of me?
This frozen heart
Screaming wheels
But does that screaming come from me?
I'm dizzy from all this spinning
Now I'm thinking that you did all you could
When you said my love
Take it slowly
OK, is what I said
Oh my God, wait and see
What will soon become of me?
Frozen heart
Screaming wheels
But does that screaming come from me?
Take me back, just before I was spinning
Take me back, just before I got dizzy
Take me back, amazing what a minute can do
Just like you
So, so, so, so, up, around, around, around
Amazing what a minute can do
Around, around, around
OK.
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Some Devil
Written by David J. Matthews
One last kiss one only
Then I'll let you go Hard for you
I've fallen
But you can't break my fall
I'm broken don't break me
When I hit the ground
Some devil some angel
Has got me to the bones
You said always and forever
Now I believe you baby
You said always and forever
Is such a long and lonely time
Too drunk and still drinking
It's just the way I feel
It's alright
Is what you told me
Cause what we had was so beautiful
Feel heavy like floating
At the bottom of the sea
You said always and forever
Now I believe you baby
You said always and forever
Is such a long and lonely time
Some devil is stuck inside of me
I cannot set it free
I wish, I wish I was dead and you breathing
Just so that you could know
Some angel is stuck inside of me
But I cannot set you free
You said always and forever
Now I believe you baby
You said always and forever
Such a long and lonely time
Stuck inside of me
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So Much To Say
Written by David J. Matthews, Boyd Tinsley and Peter Griesar
Say my hell is the closet
I'm stuck inside
Can't see the light
And my heaven is a nice house in the sky
Got central heating
And I'm alright
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Can't see the light
Keep it locked up inside
Don't talk about it
Talk about the weather
Can't see the light
Open up my head and let me out, little baby
Here we have been standing for a long, long time
Treading trodden trails for a long, long time
I say my hell is the closet I'm stuck inside
Can't see the light
And my heaven is a nice house in the sky
Got central heating and I'm alright
Here we have been standing for a long, long time
Treading trodden trails for a long, long time
I find sometimes it's easy to be myself
Sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else
I see you young and soft oh little baby
Little feet, little hands, little baby
One year of cryin' and the words creep up inside
Creep into your mind
So much to say
Here we have been standing for a long, long time
Treading trodden trails for a long, long time
I find sometimes it's easy
to be myself
Sometimes I find it's better
to be somebody else
So much to say
Open up my head and let me out
Little baby
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Song That Jane Likes, The
Written by David J. Matthews & Mark Roebuck
And in plays to write the wire in
I'll come back again
Torching time talking rhymes in
I'll come back again
Would you like to play
With the thought of a friend
In a distant passing stage
While you lie around
With hands up and down
So resigned you will fall down
While you around here play
Wild on the warm and far away
While you around here play
The days keep scrbbling themselves
In tidy lines
Would like to play
With a fool holding hands
With a one-eyed jack of spades
While on the deck they sing
All of the captain's cards are kings
Still he and the queen are lost at sea
I hope it isn't you and me
And I'll be back 'round again
Yes I'll walk in time with you old friend
And we'll find that place
That we had danced so long ago
And in plays to write the wire in
I'll come back again
Torching time talking rhymes in
I'll come back again
With this resigned
The letter I sign
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So Right
Written by David J. Matthews and Glen Ballard
Roll uptown to midnight
Then roll on downtown till its light
Because tomorrow we may die
Oh but tonight we're dancing in the fate light
Don't you rob yourself of what you're feeling
Don't rob yourself of all that you could be
Roll hard 'til midnight
Roll 'til its light, come on now
Stay up and make some memories here, with us now
To roll red carpet out with friends
To love and roll on
Our love is so right
I won't waste a minute here tonight
Our love is so right
And tonight my dance is all about you
To midnight love you
Roll on and run the red lights
Game now is keep it tight
How I love her pretty rock and roll kisses
Come on and stay with me
Roll on and run the red lights
Come this love is so right
Stay up and make some memories here, with us now
To roll the red carpet out with friends
To love and roll on
Our love is so right
I can taste we're in it here tonight
Our love is so right
And tonight my dance is all about you
I'm going crazy and it's all cause of you
It's all cause of you
I'm going under over you
This time now is so alive
Everybody's trance dancing tonight
So beautiful and so strange
It was empty till you came
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Space Between, The
Written by David J. Matthews and Glen Ballard
You cannot quit me so quickly
Is no hope in you for me
No corner you could squeeze me
But I've got all the time for you love
The space between
The tears we cry is the laughter that keeps us coming back for more
The space between
The wicked lies we tell to keep us safe from the pain
Will I hold you again
These fickle fuddled words confuse me
Like will it rain today
We waste the hours with talking talking
These twisted games we're playing
We're strange allies with warring hearts
What a wild eyed beast you be
Look at us spinning out in the madness of a rollercoaster
You know you went off like the devil in the church
In the middle of a crowded room
All we can do my love
Is hope we don't take this ship down
The space between
Where you smile and hide
That's where you'll find me if I get to go
The space between
The bullets in our fire fight
Is where I'll be hiding waiting for you
The rain that falls splashed in your heart
Ran like sadness down the window into your room
The space between our wicked lies is
The hope to keep safe from pain
Take my hand cause we're walking out of here
Right out of here is all we need dear
The space between
What's wrong and right
Is where you'll find me hiding
Waiting for you
The space between
Your heart and mind
Is the space we'll fill with time
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Spoon
Written by David J. Matthews
The spoon in spoon, stirring my coffee,
I thought of you and turned to the gate
And on my way, came up with the answers
I scratched my head and the answers were gone
From hand to hand, wrist to the elbow,
Red, blood, sand, could Dad be God?
Crosses cross, hold out like a wet rag
Forgive you, why? You hung me out out dry.
Oh, maybe I'm crazy,
But laughing out loud will make the pain pass by
And maybe you're a little crazy,
And laughing out loud will make it all subside
Holding, I'm holding out,
I'm still falling, I'm still falling
The spoon in spoon, stirring my coffee,
I thought of this and turned to the gate
And on my way cracked lightning then thunder,
I hid my head and the storm slipped away
Well, maybe I'm crazy
But laughing out loud will make it all pass by
But maybe you're a little crazy,
And laughing out loud will make it all go by
Laughing out loud
From time to time, minutes and hours,
Some move ahead while some lag behind
It's like the balloon, it rise and then vanish,
This drop of hope falls from his eye
Spoon in spoon, stirring my coffee,
I think of this and turn to go away
Well as I walked,
There're voices behind me singing, "sinner, sin, come now and play."
Come out, come out,
Come now and play
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Stay or Leave
Written by David J. Matthews
Maybe different but remember
Winters warm there you and I
Kissing whiskey by the fire
With the snow outside
And the summer comes
The river swims at midnight shiver cold
Touch the bottom you and I
With muddy toes
Stay or leave
I want you not to go but you should
It was good as good goes
Stay or leave I want you not to go but you did
Wake up naked drinking coffee
Making plans to change the world
While the world is changing us
It was good good love
You used to laugh under the covers
Maybe not so often now
The way I used to laugh with you
Was loud and hard
Stay or leave
I want you not to go but you should
It was good as good goes
Stay or leave I want you not to go but you did
So what to do
With the rest of the day's afternoon hey
Isn't it strange how we change
Everything we did
Did I do all that I should
That I coulda done
Remember we used to dance
And everyone wanted to be
You and me
I want to be too
What day is this
Besides the day you left me
What day is this
Besides the day you went
So what to do
With the rest of the day's afternoon hey
Well isn't it strange how we change
Everything we did
Did I do all that I could
Remember we used to dance
And everyone wanted to be
You and me, I want to be too
What day is this
Besides the day you went babe
What day is this?
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Stay (Wasting Time)
Written by David J. Matthews, Stefan Lessard and Leroi Moore
We were walking
Just the other day
It was so hot outside
You could fry an egg
Remember you were talking
And I watched as sweat ran down your face
Reached up and I caught it at your chin
Licked my fingertips
We were
We were
Just wasting time
Let the hours roll by
Doing nothing for the fun
A little taste of the good life
Whether right or wrong
Makes us want to stay, stay, stay, stay, stay for awhile
Then later on the sun began to fade
And then, well, the clouds rolled over our heads
And it began to rain
Oh, we were dancing mouths open
We were splashing and the tongue taste
And for a moment this good time would never end
You and me
You and me
Just wasting time
I was kissing you
You were kissing me love
From good day into the moonlight
Now a night so fine
Makes us wanna stay, stay, stay, stay, stay for awhile
Wasting time
I shall miss this thing when it all rolls by
What a day
Wanna stay, stay, stay, stay, stay for awhile
Hey love
Oh, just groping you
Rolling in the mud
Stay a while
Oh come on, love
Wanna stay, stay, stay, stay, stay for awhile
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Stand Up (For It)
Written by Dave Matthews Band and Mark Batson
Boys
Get up y'all!
Stand up!
I woke up to the angels
Singing in my head
You look so good naked next to me
(There's) an angel in my bed
Stand up!
I feel like a drug is cookin' in my veins
Still I'm so out of my mind
I'll shoot you up again
Stand up! etc...
[mumble man]
Water save my soul
Stand up!
Smell like smoke and fire it's burning in us all.
You dropped me in the water
Lift me up save my soul
Stand up!
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Steady as We Go
Written by Dave Matthews Band and Mark Batson
I walk half way around the world
Just to sit down by your side
And I would do most anything girl
To be the apple of your eye
Troubles they may come and go
But good times they are the gold
And if this road gets rocky girl
Just steady as we go
Any place you wanna go
Know I'll be next to you
If it's treasure, baby, you're looking for
I'll search the whole world through
Know troubles they may come and go
But good times they're the gold
So if the road gets rocky girl
Just steady as we go
When the storm comes
You shelter me
And I don't say a word
And you know exactly what I mean
In the darkest times
You shine on me
You set me free
And keep me steady as we go
So if your heart rings dry my love
I will fill your cup
And if your load gets heavy girl
I will lift you up
Troubles they may come and go
But good times be the gold
So if this road gets rocky girl
Just steady as we go
Ah
Hold me
Shine on me
Oh, shine, shine
Shine on me
Shine, shine
Yeah shine on me
Hey shine
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Stolen Away on The 55th & 3rd
Written by Dave Matthews Band and Mark Batson
Hello again
Seem like forever between now and then
You look the same
I mean you look different but you haven't changed
Funny to think how the time gets away
Funny how you take me right back again
Stole me away
First time I saw you, you did me that way
What should I say?
I saw you laughin' and I was afraid that I'd get in the way
I did not think I would see you again
So how have you been?
Do you remember, lose everything
Funny I think how the time gets away
Funny how you take me right back again
Stole me away
First time I saw you, you did me that way
What should I say?
Saw you there dancin' but I was afraid I might get in the way
I did not think I would see you again
Funny to think how the time gets away
Funny how you take me right back again
Funny the feeling (we're falling for this)
Stole me away
First time I saw you, you did me that way
What should I say?
I saw you there dancin', well I was afraid I might get in the way
Never thought I would see you again
How have you been?
(Been) watchin' the years as they trickle away
It's everything, how time gets away
Funny how you take me right back again
Steal me away
It's like the first time I saw you, you do me that way
What should I say?
See you here standin', and I am afraid I might get in the way
I never thought I would see you again
How have you been?
Do you remember I mean everything?
You steal me away
Like the first time I saw you, you do me that way
What can I say?
That's you here standin', well I am afraid I might get in your way.
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Stone, The
Written by David J. Matthews
I've this creeping
Suspicion that things here are not as they seem
Reassure me
Why do I feel as if I'm in too deep
Now I've been praying
For some way to show them I'm not what they see
Yes, I have done wrong
But what I did I thought needed be done
I swear
Oh unholy day
If I leave now I might get away
Oh, but this weighs on me
As heavy as stone and as blue as I go
I was just wondering if you'd come along
Hold up my head when my head won't hold on
I'll do the same if the same's what you want
But if not I'll go
I will go alone
I'm a long way
From that fool's mistake and now forever pay
No, run
I will run and I'll be okay
I was just wondering if you'd come along
Hold up my head when my head won't hold on
I'll do the same if the same's what you want
But if not I'll go
I will go alone
Long way
Bury the past for I don't want to pay
Oh, how I wish this
To turn back the clock and do over again
Now I was just wondering if you'd come along
Hold up my head when my head won't hold on
I'll do the same if the same's what you want
But if not I'll go
I'll go alone
I need so
To stay in your arms, see you smile, hold you close
And now it weighs on me
As heavy as stone and a bone chilling cold
I was just wondering if you'd come along
Tell me you will
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Sugar Will
Written by Dave Matthews Band
Every night stopping
it's raining
scary oh
so rage you again
your
on fire
i one decide to run out
oh they got off you did
wonder where you say you knew
sugar ain't poison
but sugar will kill you
it's too much of a good thing
maybe not so
i wasn't somebody
no hand out
i give you
i stare back and
gonna let you out
i wonder what you
all of sad you knew
sugar ain't poison
but sugar will kill you
too much of a good thing
maybe not so
you did what you thought was fitting baby
dreams about oh what is sunning you
oh baby
i hung up my package
never no never you knew
sugar ain't poison
but sugar will kill you
too much of a good thing
maybe not so sweet
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Too High
Written by David J. Matthews
Your bones are brittle
Inside you
Wrapped so soft your blood
Is running, I'll be there
If you're moving slowly
We still get there I'll be there
Such a strong desire
Hunger
All you need to hope you keep your head, yeah
The slow hand quickens
What you've done with all those
Around you
Hopeful always that someone
Will come and save you but I'll be there
To watch you sulk, returning
Seething I'll be there
Minutes hold onto hours
Gets you twisting
All you need to hope you keep your head, yeah
The slow hand quickens
How'd you leave it with the love you lost?
You made them crawl to be without you
The slow hand quickens
Yeah sand is empty
In the hourglass I'll be there
To turn it over and over
In your head
So you keep the hope you get your day, yeah
The slow hand's quicker
You seem too hard to break
Too cold to burn
Afraid your chance is gone
Your wires are crossed
Your mouth is lost
You fear you left it far too long
The minutes passed
The hours are gone
So hard to find your way alone
The slow hand's quicker, yeah
The slow hand's quicker
The slow hand's quicker
I...
Your slow hand's quicker
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Too Much
Written by David J. Matthews
Straight in, suck up and go,
Cool it, swallow, swallow
Breathe deep, take it all
It comes cheap
Push it through the doors
Because in between the lines
I'm gonna pack more lines
So I can get in
Ooh traffic jam got more cars
Than a beach got sand
Suck it up, suck it up, suck it up,
Fill it up until no more
I'm no crazy creep,
I've got it coming to me
Because I'm not satisfied
The hunger keeps on growing
I eat too much
I drink too much
I want too much
Too much
I've got to get it somewhere
I mean, you never know, maybe you're dreaming
Who do you think you're watching
Who do you think you need
Play for me, play more,
ten times in the same day
I need more, I'm going
Over my borders
I'm going to take more,
More from you, letter by letter
I eat too much
I drink too much
I want too much
Too much
I told, God, I'm coming
To your country
I'm going to eat up your cities,
Your homes, you know
I've got a stomach full it's not
a chip on my shoulder
I've got this growl in my tummy
And I'm gonna stop it today
I eat too much
I drink too much
I want too much
Too much
Suck it up
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Tripping Billies
Written by David J. Matthews
We were above
You standing underneath us
We were not yet lovers
Dragons were smoked
Bumblebees were stinging us
I was soon to be crazy
Eat, drink and be merry
For tomorrow we die
'Cause we're tripping billies
We're wearing nothing
Nothing but out shadows
Shadows falling down on the beach sand
Remembering once,
Out on the beaches we wore
Pineapple grass bracelets
So why would you care
To get out of this place
You and me and all our freinds
Such a happy human race
'Cause we're tripping billies
We are all sitting
Legs crossed round a fire
My yellow flame she dances
Tequila drinking oh our
Minds will wonder
To wonderous places
So why would you care
To get out of this place
You and me and all our friends
Such a happy human race
Eat, drink and be merry
For tomorrow we die
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Trouble
Written by David J. Matthews & Stephen Harris
Trouble
Don't you see
That in your bed
I find no sleep
I confess you came because of me
Trouble get behind me now
Trouble let me be
Cold wet stone
Deep river bed
Once so clean and clear now runs red
You know to well
Was me that called you here
Trouble get behind me now
Trouble let me be
Oh sweet day
Leave me behind
I will never call on you
Until the day I die
Pray your mercy shine on me
Pray your mercy shine
Here I stand
Head bowed for thee
My empty heart begs you
Leave me be
But I confess
You know too well
That I have fallen
Pray your mercy give to me
Pray your mercy shine
Trouble, I'll not trouble thee
Let your mercy shine
Cold wet stone
River deep and red
Your cold heart beats inside my head
You know too well
It was me that brought you here
Oh, trouble get behind me now
Trouble let me be
I pray your mercy shine on me
Trouble let me be
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Trouble With You (Stand Up Companion CD))
Written by Dave Matthews Band and Mark Batson
The brightest star
On a cloudless night
Some kind of miracle
Almost empty sky
In fact, sure as God is a monkey's dream
Ate that mushroom and believe what he see
The trouble with you is you always wanna find the fires
And sitting warming your hands by the fireside
The trouble with you is you always lookin' way outside
Oh, and not enjoy yourself by the fireside
Just as the bite of the blade
Wakes the absent mind
There's time to dream
And there's time to open your eyes
She said
Just as the warmth of a kiss
Brings the love alive
It's right here by the fire
Where the answers lie
The trouble with you is always wanna find the fire
Oh, when you warmin' your hands by the fireside
The trouble with you is you always lookin' far and wide
Oh, why not enjoy yourself by the fireside?
But you said
Why you always lookin'?
Always lookin'?
She said
Why you always lookin' outside?
She said
The trouble with you is you always lookin' for the fire
When you're warming your hands by the fireside
The trouble with you is you always lookin' far and wide
Oh, why not enjoy yourself by the fireside?
The trouble with you is you always lookin' somewhere else
Oh, and what you see there inside yourself
The trouble with you is you always lookin' for the fire
Oh, why not enjoy yourself by the fireside?
Oh, why not enjoy yourself by the fireside?
She said, oh, why not enjoy yourself sittin' by the fire?
She said
The trouble with you
The trouble with you
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True Reflections
written by Boyd C. Tinsley
When you look into a mirror
Do you like what's looking at you?
Now that you've seen your true reflections
What on earth are you gonna do?
Find some inspiration
It's down deep inside you
Amend your situation, yeah
Your whole life is ahead of you
Your whole life is ahead of you
Remember the time you hung out with the boys, now
Remember the things you used to say
I thought by now you'd be the president
But after all that was yesterday
But you've had time to go out in the world now
But you chose to run away
Well, people ask you what you're doing now
You don't even know what to say
Find some inspiration
It's down deep inside you
Amend your situation, yeah
Your whole life is ahead of you
Your whole life is ahead of you
Find some inspiration (yeah)
It's down deep inside you
Amend your situation, yeah
Your whole life is ahead of you
Your whole life is ahead of you
You think your life is like a movie
Where it all works out in the end
I think your life is like a desert
Where does it go, where does it begin?
When you look into a mirror
(When you look into a mirror)
Do you like what's looking at you?
(Do you like it?)
Now that you've seen your true reflection
What on earth are you gonna do?
Find some inspiration
It's down deep inside you
Amend your situation, yeah
Your whole life is ahead of you
Your whole life is ahead of you
Find some inspiration (yeah)
It's down deep inside you
Amend your situation, yeah
Your whole life is ahead of you
Your whole life is ahead of you
Find some inspiration
It's down deep inside you
Find some inspiration
It's down deep inside you
Find some inspiration (inspiration)
It's down deep inside you
Find some inspiration (inspiration)
It's down deep inside you
Find some inspiration
It's down deep inside you
Find some inspiration...
It's down deep inside of you.
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Two Step
Written by David J. Matthews
Say, my love, I came to you with best intentions
You laid down and gave to me just what I'm seeking
Love, you drive me to distraction
Hey my love do you believe that we might last a thousand years
Or more if not for this,
our flesh and blood
It ties you and me right up
Tie me down
Celebrate we will
Because life is short but sweet for certain
We're climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue
These things we cannot change
Hey, my love, you came to me like wine comes to this mouth
Grown tired of water all the time
You quench my heart and you quench my mind
Celebrate we will
Because life is short but
Sweet for certain
We're climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue
The things we cannot
Celebrate, you and me, climbing two by two, to be sure
these days continue, things we cannot change
Oh, my love I came to you
with best intentions
You laid down and gave to me
Just what I'm seeking
Celebrate we will
Because life is short
But sweet for certain
We're climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue
Things we cannot change...
Things we cannot change
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Typical Situation
Written by David J. Matthews
Ten fingers we have each
Nine planets around the sun repeat
Eight ball is the last if you triumphant be
Seven oceans pummel the shores of the sea
It's a typical situation
In these typical times
Too many choices
Everybody's happy
Everybody's free
We'll keep the big door open
And everyone'll come around
Why are you different
Why are you that way
If you don't step in line
We'll lock you away
Six senses keeping
Five around a sense of self
Four seasons turn on and turn off
I can see three corners from this corner
Two is a perfect number
But one
Everybody's happy
Everybody's free
We'll keep the big door open
And everyone'll come around
Why are you different
Why are you that way
If you don't step in line
We'll lock you away
It's a typical situation
In these typical times
We can't do a thing about it
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Up and Away
Written by David J. Matthews
Everyday, everyday with you
Every little thing you do the way you do
Little darlin', in your eyes
Got me all up and away
You get me high
I saw you there since then everyday
It's like I'm lost and thinking of you in every way
Since I fell into your eyes
All I know is that you get me high
You get me high
Like I'm dy-oooowhhoooo
Up and away
You take me baby
Oh, you take me baby
And then you walk the way you walk
You blow my mind to know the way you walk in my way
Then I fall into your eyes
Up up and away the way your eyes
Oh, baby
The way you make me high
Before you came you know I didn't care
It's just a game I play
All up and away, I
All up and away
You take me baby
All for you I give it all
'Cause when I'm thinking of you
When I'm flying above the world
How I wish I was drowning in you
I must admit that I'm oh so in love you know
Please don't ever let me go
You've done nothing to me, but up, up and away you go
All up and away
Ahh, you take me baby
Yeah
Mmmmm baby
Awwww baby
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Warehouse
Written by David J. Matthews
Hey reckless mind
Don't throw away your playful beginning
You and I let us fumble around in the touches
And be sure to
Leave all the lights on
So I can see the black cat changing colors
And walk under ladders
And travel my eyes over you
Hey we have found
Becoming one in a million
Slip into the crowd
This question I found in the gap in the sidewalk
Keep all your sights on
The black cat changing colors
I can walk under ladders
And swim as the tides choose to turn me
And here I sit
Life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set
Spot in the middle
Static fade, statistic bit
And soon I fade away, fade away
This I admit
Taste so good, hard to believe an end to it
Smell touch feel
How could this rhythm ever quit
Bags packed on a plane
Hopefully to heaven
Shut up I'm thinking
I had a clue now it's gone forever
Sitting over these bones
You can read in whatever you're needing to
Keep all your sights on
The big bad black cat that's
Changing colors
It's not the colors that matter
But that they'll all fade away
This I admit
Seems so full
Hard to believe an end to it
Warehouse is bare
Nothing at all inside of it
Walls and halls have disappeared
My love I love to stay here
In the warehouse
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What Would You Say
Written by David J. Matthews
Up and down the puppies' hair
Fleas and ticks jump everywhere
'Cause of original sin
Down the hill fell Jack and Jill
And you came tumbling after
'Cause of original sin
Rip away the tears
Drink a hope for happy years
And you may find
A lifetime's passed you by
What would you say
If you a monkey on a string
If you a doggie on a chain
What would you say
I was there when the bear
Ate his head, thought it was a candy
Everyone goes in the end
Knock knock on the door
Who's it for, nobody in here
Look in the mirror my friend
I don't understand at best
I cannot speak for all the rest
But you may find a lifetime's passed you by
Every dog has its day every day has its way
Of being forgotten - "Mom it's my birthday"
What would you say
(Don't drop the big one)
If you a monkey on a string
(Don't cut my life line)
If you a doggie on a chain
(Don't bite the mailman)
What would you say
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What You Are
Written by David J. Matthews and Glen Ballard
I walk into this room, all eyes on me now
But I do not know the people inside
Look straight through me these eyes
Seeking more wisdom than I have to give away
Realize what you are
What you've become just as I have
Are you and I so unalike
Huddled here you just as I am
Afraid if we dance we will die
Mock the world live safe say why
Don't you know when you give life
Then you become what you are
The sea is unsparing
We're all drifting away
Away from you, but I pray for you now
Hoping to god on high
Is like clinging to straws while drowning
What you are is a beast in a lover's arms
What you are is the devil in a sweet sweet kiss
What you are is a puzzle to me
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Where Are You Going?
Written by David J. Matthews
Where are you going
With your long face pulling down, don't hide away
Like an ocean that you can't see but you can smell
And the sound of the waves crash down
I am no superman
I have no reasons for you
And I am no hero, oh, that's for sure
But I do know one thing
Where you are is where I belong
I do know where you go
Is where I want to be
Where are you going?
Where do you go?
Are you looking for answers to questions under the stars?
If along the way
You are grownweary you can rest with me until
A brighter day and you're OK
I am no superman
I have no answers for you
I am no hero, oh that's for sure
But I do know one thing
Where you are is where I belong
I do know where you go is where I want to be
Where are you going?
Where do you go?
Where do you go?
Where are you going?
Where do you go?
I am no superman, I have no answers for you
I am no hero, oh, that's for sure
But I do know one thing
Where you are is where I belong
I do know where you go
Is where I want to be.
Where are you going?
Where do you go?
Where are you going?
Where?
Let's go.
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When The World Ends
Written by David J. Matthews and Glen Ballard
Oh when the world ends, collect your things
You're coming with me
When the world ends, you tuckle up yourself with me
Watch it as the stars disappear to nothing
The day the world is over
We'll be lying in bed
I'm gonna rock you like a baby when the cities fall
We will rise as the building's crumble
Midst the burning we'll be churning
Love will be our wings
Passion rises from the ashes
When the world ends, you're gonna come with me
We're gonna be crazy like a river bends
We're gonna float through the criss cross of the mountains
Watch them fade to nothin
When the world ends
You know that's what's happenin now
I'm gonna be there with you somehow
I'm gonna tie you up like a baby in the carriage car
Your legs don't work cause you want me so
You just lie spread to the wall
Love you got is surely all the love I would ever need
I'm gonna take you by my side and love you tall till the world ends
But don't you worry about a thing
No cause I got you here with me
Don't you worry about a
Just you and me, floating through the empty empty
Just you and me
Oh graces
Oh Grace
When the world ends, we'll be burning one
When the world ends, we'll be sweet makin' love
Oh you know when the world ends, I'm gonna take you aside and say
Let's watch it fade away fade away
The worlds done, ours just begun
We're gonna dive into the emptiness
We be swimming
I'm gonna walk you through the pathless roads
I'm gonna take you to the top of the mountain that's no longer there
I'm gonna take you to bed and love you I swear like the end is here
I'm gonna take you up to
I'm gonna take you down on you
I'm gonna hold you like an angel
I'm gonna love you
When the world ends
I'm gonna hold you
When the world is over
We'll just be begin...
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You Might Die Trying
Written by Dave Matthews Band and Mark Batson
To change the world
Start with one step
However small
The first step is hardest of all
Once you get your gait
You will walk in tall
You said you never did
'Cause you might die trying
'Cause you might die trying
'Cause you
If you close your eyes
'Cause the house is on fire.
And think you couldn't move,
Until the fire dies
The things you never did
Oh, cause you might die trying
'Cause you might die trying
You'd be as good as dead
Cause you might die trying
Cause you might die trying
If you give, you, you begin to live
If you give, you begin to live
You begin, you get the world
If you give, you begin to give
You get the world, you get the world
If you give, you begin to live
You might die trying
Oh, you might die trying
Yeah, you might die trying
The things you never did
'Cause you might die trying
You'd be as good as dead
You never did
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You Never Know
Written by David J. Matthews
Sitting still as stone watching - watching
People walking by you wondering why
No one ever stops to talk or thinks about it – if they ever did
What if God shuffled by?
One day we might see
Doing not a thing
Breathing just to breathe
We might find some reason
But rushing around seems what’s wrong with the world
Don’t lose the dreams inside your head
They’ll only be there til you’re dead
Dream
Lying on the roof counting
The stars that fill the sky I wonder if
Someone in the heavens looking back down on me – I’ll never know
So much space to believe
Funny when you’re small
The moon follows the car
There’s no one but you see
Hey, the moon is chasing me
I worried if I looked away she’d be gone
Don’t lose the dreams inside your head
They’ll only be there til you’re dead
Dream
Walking through the wood
No cares in the world
The world has come to play
She’s all mine just for a day
There’s not a moment to lose in the game
Don’t let the troubles in your head
Steal too much time you’ll soon be dead
So play
All fall down
It won’t be so long now
Out of the darkness comes light like a flash
You think you can you think you can
Sometimes that is the problem
Dream little darling dream
Spinning on the wind
The leaf fell from the limb
But everyday should be a good day to die
Oh all fall down
It won’t be too long now
Every fire dies
I find it hard to explain how I got here
I think I can I think I can
Then again I will falter
Dream little darling dream
Spinning on the wind
The leaf fell from the limb
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#34
Written by David J. Matthews, Leroi Moore, Carter Beauford and Haines Fullerton
Oh, my head lay back on the seating
Been so tired, throw away my surrounding
Like the sun and moon take for granted
Soon we move through the flood and we fade away
Lie about it,
Cry about it,
We'll be ok
Lean upon me,
I'll lean upon you,
We'll be okay
Oh, I lay myself at your feet laughing
Hope mine eye made of the soul choir
Lean upon me,
I'll lean upon you,
We'll be okay
Lie about it,
Cry about it,
Soon fade away
Lie about it,
Cry about it,
We'll be okay
Lean upon me,
I'll lean upon you,
We'll be okay
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#36
Written by David J. Matthews, Carter Beauford, Stefan Lessard, Leroi Moore and Boyd Tinsley
Yeah, yeah I scream...
With you on my mind so heavy and so hard
I don't know quite everything
You make me think of a better thing...
Better things to fill my day with
But they don't mean to go
Please don't be too bad with me, God
Please don't be too good...
Let some women's light, women's light
Chain my hands with me singing...
Hani, Hani, come and dance with me
Whoa, whoa, sooner there
Hani, Hani, come and dance with me
Only the brave
Hani Hani, come and dance with me
(feeling the night)
Hani, Hani, come and dance with me
Lead me back home to life
You made Heaven turn to dirt
And dirt turn to dance on
Heaven come my way
Baby surely do
Maybe some moonlight
Maybe some, baby surely do
Maybe some moonlight
Say this say this...
Hani, Hani, come and dance for me
Underneath the moonlight
Hani, Hani, come and dance for me
Hani, Hani, come and dance for me
Come on, come on go
Hani, Hani, come and dance for me
Give it back, give it back....
Oh man, i can't talk
A man was tall and once tore a piece of freedom for us all
When, then, you least expect it
Man can cut from of his own heart
For us all, that man
Don't believe it, oh yeah....
God, two men slice and dice eachother up in his place
They don't believe it...
Well leave it
Leave it lying, leave it lying, leave it lying
Got me singing
Hani, Hani, come and dance for me
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#40
Written by David J. Matthews
Tables turned again and you my friend
You and I face each other all time and time again
I know it's sometimes hard, but knowing just
that we will get along until we're old and gray
and huddled up and doubled up we'll sit
And laugh of times were hard
Laugh of times when we thought all of it would end
It all was over, then again
And though all that I know is this way
And to leave you out of life
Oh my friend…
It will be you until the end with me, always
Always…
Ah ah will, always
Yeah ah, yeah ah, yeah
Always
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#41
Written by David J. Matthews
Come and see
I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles
I'm coming slow but speeding
Do you wish a dance and while I'm in the front
The play on time is won
But the difficulty is coming here
I will go in this way
And find my own way out
I won't tell you to stay
But I'm coming to much more
Me
All at once the ghosts come back
Reeling in you now
What if they came down crushing
Remember when I used to play for all of the loneliness that nobody
notices now
I'm begging slow I'm coming here
Only waiting I wanted to stay
I wanted to play,
I wanted to love you
I'm only this far
And only tomorrow leads my way
I'm coming waltzing back and moving into your head
Please, I wouldn't pass this by
I wouldn't take any more than
What sort of man goes by
I will bring water
Why won't you ever be glad
It melts into wonder
I came in praying for you
Why won't you run
in the rain and play
Let the tears splash all over you
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