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Dave Matthews Band - Where Are You Going?

Dave Matthews Band - Where Are You Going? Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Busted Stuff
Released: 2002

Where Are You Going? Lyrics

Where Are You Going?

This song is about the implausible conviction that no matter where you are, or what you are doing, nothing means much without "the one."

Dave Matthews Band - Old Dirt Hill

Dave Matthews Band - Old Dirt Hill Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Stand Up
Released: 2005

Old Dirt Hill Lyrics

Bring that beat back to me again
Take me back, take me back, can't catch me can't catch me
Bring that beat back to me again
Take me back, take me back, can't catch me, can't catch me

Ride my bike down that Old Dirt Hill (can't catch me)
First time without my trainin' wheels
First time I kissed you I lost my legs (can't catch me)
Bring that beat back to me again

Screamin', shoutin', louder innocence
Days when all we did would never end

Bring that beat back to me again
Take me back, take me back, can't catch me can't catch me
Bring that beat back to me again
Take me back, take me back, can't catch me can't catch me

Smokin' on 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

Screamin', shoutin', louder innocence
Days when all we did would never end

Screamin' down that old dirt hill
Bring that beat back to me again

Oh when it gets hard
That's when the days I remember seem so far
When I was just a kid that's what I miss
When I was just a kid that's what I miss
Take me back, Take me back to that beat again

Smokin' on the railroad bridge
Bring that beat back to me again (again)
Bring that beat back to me again (can't catch me)
Bring that beat back to me again
First time all we were was good friends
Bring that beat back to me again
Bring that beat back to me again
Bring that beat back to me again (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

Writer/s: MATTHEWS, DAVID JOHN / BATSON, MARK CHRISTOPHER / TINSLEY, BOYD C. / MOORE, LEROI H. / BEAUFORD, CARTER A. / LESSARD, STEFAN K.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Old Dirt Hill

This song might be about Observatory Hill (a.k.a. O-Hill) in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the band formed. The railroad bridge and bike references seem to describe the area pretty well.

At an April 2007 concert at Radio City Music Hall, Matthews said about this song: "When I first wrote it, someone said 'is this song about you?' And I said 'no, I have no idea who it's about' And then I thought about it, and then sure enough! It was all about me! But I think this song's sort of about everybody."

Dave Matthews Band - Proudest Monkey

Dave Matthews Band - Proudest Monkey Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Crash
Released: 1996

Proudest Monkey Lyrics

Proudest Monkey

The lyrics are a timeline of Matthew's rise to fame, which is the subject of many of the songs of Crash. The song begins as a "humble" tune and gradually develops into a strutting, "proud" song.

Dave sugggested at a 2006 concert in Saratoga, NY, that this song is about the human population destroying the world, and one monkey surviving and starting everything over again.

Dave Matthews Band - Gravedigger

Dave Matthews Band - Gravedigger Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Some Devil
Released: 2003

Gravedigger Lyrics

Cyrus Jones 1810 to 1913
Made his great grandchildren 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 rosey
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

Writer/s: PROCTOR, DAVID/LAVERY, CHRISTOPHER/NIXON, STEVEN/GILDEA,STEPHEN/MATTHEWS, KEVIN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Gravedigger

There are two versions of this song on the album: the original electric version (featuring Phish's Trey Anastasio on guitar) and the album-closing acoustic version (featuring only Matthews on acoustic guitar and a string ensemble backing his vocals). (thanks, Justin - Felts Mills, NY)

In the CD case, Matthews wrote: "My dad's been dead for more than 20 years. I still want him to be proud of me." (thanks, Billy Ross - Hagerstown, MD)

Dave Matthews Band - #41

Dave Matthews Band - #41 Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Crash
Released: 1996

#41 Lyrics

#41

Dave wrote this when he was starting to become famous. Along with his fame came other people's greed. Many people were grabbing for as much money as they could get, and forgot about the real meaning of the music. The song shows how Dave was saddened by it. Key lines include, "All at once the ghosts come back" and "Remember when I used to play for all of the loneliness that nobody notices now". (thanks, Tommy - Southboro, MA)

This song got its title because it was the 41st song they wrote. (thanks, David - Charlottesville, VA)

Dave Matthews Band - Crush

Dave Matthews Band - Crush Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Before These Crowded Streets
Released: 1998

Crush Lyrics

Crazy how it feels tonight
Crazy how you make it all alright love
You Crush me with the things you do
I do for you anything too
Sitting, smoking, feeling high
In this moment it feels so right

Lovely lady
I am at your feet
God I want you so badly
I wonder this
Could tomorrow be
So wondrous as you there sleeping
Let's go drive 'til morning comes

Watch the sunrise
To fill our souls up
Drink some wine 'til we get drunk
It's crazy I'm thinking
Just knowing that the world is round

Here I'm dancing on the ground
Am I right side up or upside down
Is this real or am I dreaming

Lovely lady
Let me drink you please
I won't spill a drop, I promise you
Lying under this spell you cast on me

Each moment
The more I love you
Crush me
Come on
It's crazy I'm thinking

Just knowing that the world is round
Here I'm dancing on the ground
Am I right side up or upside down
Is it real or am I dreaming
Lovely lady I will treat you sweetly

Adore you
I mean
You crush me
It's times like these
When my faith I feel
And I know
How I love you
Come on
Lady

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
By 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
With each moment the more I love you
Crush me
Come on
Lady

So much you have given love
That I would give you back
Again and again
Meaning I'll hold you
And please
Let me always

Writer/s: SCHMOLL, STEVE / HAAS, MEGHAN / LYNCH, SUZANNE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Crush

A song about spending all the hours of the night with a woman, never wanting it to end, and the feelings that come when you fall in love. Feeling like dancing, feeling like telling her everything that's on your mind, feeling like you don't know if your right side up or upside down, feeling like driving till morning comes. It doesn't have to be a woman, it can be about love for anyone. (thanks, Channing - Minneapolis, MN)

This was edited down to about 4 minutes for airplay - it's over 8 minutes on the album. (thanks, Adrian - Wilmington, DE)

Dave Matthews Band - One Sweet World

Dave Matthews Band - One Sweet World Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Remember Two Things
Released: 1993

One Sweet World Lyrics

Nine planets round the sun
Only one does the sun embrace
Upon this watered one
So much to we take for granted

So let us sleep outside tonight
Lay down in the mother's arms
For here we can rest safely

If green should slip to grey
Would our hearts still bloody beat
If the 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
Nobody left to dig the holes
And here we will rest safely

One Sweet World
Around this star is spinning
One sweet world
In her breath I'm swimming
And here we will rest in peace.

Writer/s: HILL, MILDRED J. / HILL, PATTY SMITH
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This song - like many other Dave Matthews Band songs - is about celebrating your life. live life happy, fun and free, but also remember you have responsibilities to be aware of. (thanks, Chenel - Salamanca, NY)

In 2002, Ben and Jerry's created a Dave Matthews Band inspired ice cream called "One Sweet Whirled" as a tribute to this song. It is a combination of coffee ice cream, caramel, and marshmallow swirls. Ben and Jerry's and Dave Matthews Band both support socially responsible causes, and some proceeds from "One Sweet Whirled" go to the organization Save Our Environment.

Jerry Garcia and Phish are the only other musicians to have flavors of Ben and Jerry's named after them - Cherry Garcia and Phish Food.

Dave Matthews Band - I'll Back You Up

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Album: Remember Two Things
Released: 1993

I'll Back You Up Lyrics

I'll Back You Up Song Chart

Dedicated to Matthew's girlfriend at the time, Julia Grey, this was the first song Dave Matthews wrote.

Dave Matthews Band - I'll Back You Up

Dave Matthews Band - I'll Back You Up Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Remember Two Things
Released: 1993

I'll Back You Up Lyrics

I'll Back You Up Song Chart

President John F. Kennedy commissioned Broadway composer Meredith Willson, who wrote music for The Music Man and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, to write an anthem that would inspire school children across the United States to whip themselves into shape as part of the President's Council on Physical Fitness. What followed was "Chicken Fat," also known as "The Youth Fitness Song," that would become a fixture in gym classes throughout the '60s and '70s. It was performed by actor Robert Preston, who originated the role of Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man and reprised the part for the 1962 film adaptation.

While the radio version of the song only clocked in at 2 minutes and 12 seconds, the school version was over 6 minutes and packaged with floor exercises designed to "give that chicken fat back to the chicken."

This song became a novelty hit and a nostalgic reminder of gym classes gone by for baby boomers.

This song was resurrected in 2014 as part of the new Apple iPhone 5s campaign to tout the smartphone's usefulness for physical fitness endeavors. The TV commercial shows runners, swimmers, and scale steppers gearing up to the words "touch down every morning ... not just now and then" and going full force with "Go you, chicken fat, go away!" while the handy gadget marks their progress - with a touch of good-old-fashioned fat shaming: "Nuts to the flabby guys!" At least it sounds jolly.

For whatever reason, Apple doesn't want us to know the singer of the 2014 version of the song. It's not Robert Preston, and it's not Bernie Knee, the jingle writer who supposedly sang it in 2000 - even though he died in 1994. New York Times advertising columnist Stuart Elliott implores "anyone who recognizes the voice, please stop exercising long enough to clue the rest of us in."

Robert Preston recorded the 1962 version with the Bernie Green Orchestra during the same sessions for The Music Man film soundtrack.

Dave Matthews Band - The Space Between

Dave Matthews Band - The Space Between Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Everyday
Released: 2001

The Space Between Lyrics

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 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
The space between

The wicked lies we tell that hope to keep us safe from the pain
Look at us spinning out in the madness of a roller coaster
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
Is where you'll find me if I get to go
The space between
The bullets in our firefight
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 us 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
The space between
The tears we cry is the laughter keeps us coming back for more

The space between our wicked lies
Where we hope to keep safe from pain
The space between
The space between

Writer/s: MATTHEWS, DAVID JOHN / BALLARD, GLEN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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The Space Between Song Chart

About finding the ideal partner. Matthews writes a lot of songs based on the emotions that come with love.

Second single from the album. The first was "I Did It."

Produced and co-written by Glen Ballard, who has worked on albums with Def Leppard, Aerosmith, and Alanis Morissette.

Dave Matthews Band - I Did It

Dave Matthews Band - I Did It Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Everyday
Released: 2001

I Did It Lyrics

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
I did it justice I just did it for us all

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
I did it justice I just did it for the buzz

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

Was me right or wrong
I did it
Yeah
I did it
I told you I told you I told you I told
I did it
Guilty as charged
I did it
I told you I told you I told you I
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 curtain I heard sirens there the lights flash and crawl
I did it justice I just did it for us all

Writer/s: MATTHEWS, DAVID JOHN / BALLARD, GLEN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY
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I Did It Song Chart

This was produced and co-written by Glen Ballard, who has worked on hits for Alanis Morissette and Wilson Phillips. Ballard had Matthews tighten his sound, which made him more attractive to radio.

The rap in the middle is violinist Boyd Tinsley.

This was the first single and first track on Everyday. This was the first album Matthews played electric guitar on.

Dave Matthews Band - Pantala Naga Pampa

Dave Matthews Band - Pantala Naga Pampa Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Before These Crowded Streets
Released: 1998

Pantala Naga Pampa Lyrics

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Rumor had it that Pantala Naga Pampa means "Welcome To Our Home" in Gambian. The only problem with that is in Gambia they speak English and there is no Gambian language. It actually means "There's a cobra in my pants" - "Naga" is the Sanskrit word for "cobra" and the other two words are in Indian Tamil. Dave had an Indian chef who used to yell it while he was cooking and Dave would yell it back. When he wrote the song he humorously named it Pantala Naga Pampa and didn't know what it meant.

Players of role-playing games including Dungeons & Dragons, Nethack, and Angband, can tell you that a "Naga" is a middlin' snake-monster that doesn't take too many hit points to dispatch but doesn't drop much either. By the time you get to World of Warcraft, it's evolved into an amphibious monster instead. In the original Hindu meaning, it was a sea-going snake, similar to a sea-serpent.

In fact, Hindu and Buddhist legend still tells of the Phaya Naga, a sort of snake-deity who also lives in the sea. It's got its own whole mythology to come with it.

At a tiny running time of 40 seconds, this is barely a stand-alone track on its own and more of an intro. Which is exactly how it's used, as an intro to "Rapunzel."

This is from Dave Matthews Band's third studio album, Before These Crowded Streets, which shot to #1 on the album charts in 1998. Critics and fans had a mixed reaction to the album, with some hearing it as the turning-point album where the band truly owned their adventurous, free-wheeling spirit, and others contending that the band dipped into prog-rock territory, with a darker edge that left them cold.