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Dave Matthews Band – Madman's Eyes
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[Verse 1] / Oh, little Billy's got a gun / Little Billy's having fun / Shooting bottles on the wall / Dreams the hero come home from war / Is this real? Is this make-believe? / We
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Dave Matthews Band – Squirm
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[Verse 1] / Please find your place / Though room grows scarce / One we're all inside / The service can begin / For a moment, if you please / Forget what you believe / And naked you
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Dave Matthews Band – Spaceman
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[Verse 1] / Probably get it wrong much as I get it right / But I got it right woman when I caught your eye / What I remember most about that night is / I love the way you move
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Dave Matthews Band – Big Eyed Fish
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[Verse 1] / Look at this big-eyed fish swimmin' in the sea / Oh, how it dreams to be a bird, swoopin', divin' through the breeze / So one day caught a big old wave up on to the
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Dave Matthews Band – Tripping Billies
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Via MTV:
“Tripping Billies,” Matthews said, took its name from an episode years ago when he took acid on a South African beach. No sooner had he taken it than he decided he didn’
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Dave Matthews Band – Samurai Cop (Oh Joy Begin)
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“Samurai Cop (Oh Joy Begin)” is the lead single from the Dave Matthews Band’s album Come Tomorrow.
The song originally debuted live in 2016 and is based off the notoriously bad
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Dave Matthews Band – You and Me
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The third and final single from Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, looking at a romantic couple and the adventures they’ll face over the course of a lifetime and beyond.
The band
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Dave Matthews Band (Ft. Kronos Quartet) – Halloween
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An angry, embittered reaction to being rejected after proposing marriage, possibly by the same woman who inspired the tender, gentle I’ll Back You Up.
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Dave Matthews Band – Monkey Man
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The only song from The Lillywhite Sessions which has never been performed live as of October 2014, Monkey Man also was referred to during the recording process by producer Steve
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Dave Matthews Band – Christmas Song
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Via MTV:
“Christmas Song” came to Matthews after reading a quote by the Irish writer Oscar Wilde: “If Christ was alive now, the one thing he wouldn’t be is a Christian.” Some fans
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Dave Matthews Band – Captain
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[Verse 1] / Crazy as I may / Make my way through this world / It's for no one but me to say / What direction I shall turn now / [Chorus 1] / I am the captain of this ship / Curious
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Dave Matthews Band – When the World Ends
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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
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Dave Matthews Band – American Baby
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Stand Up was a very different album from their other albums in that Dave Matthews Band was working with a producer that had more experience producing for hiphop than rock.
One of
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Dave Matthews Band – You Might Die Trying
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[Verse 1] / To change the world / Start with one step / And however small / First step is hardest of all / Once you get your gait / You'll be walking tall / You said you never did
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Dave Matthews Band – Lover Lay Down
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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
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Dave Matthews Band – Why I Am
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The second single from Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King. The lyrics are a tribute to DMB saxophonist, LeRoi Moore, who died August 19, 2008. It was written before Moore’s death and
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Dave Matthews Band – Funny the Way It Is
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Released in April 2009 as the first single from the Grammy Award-nominated Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King.
The song reflects on the randomness of the world, such as little kids
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Dave Matthews Band – Ants Marching
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This song appeared on Dave Matthews Band’s 1994 album Under the Table and Dreaming.
It was the band’s second single from the album and has grown into the band’s signature song
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Dave Matthews Band – Funny the Way It Is
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Released in April 2009 as the first single from the Grammy Award-nominated Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King.
The song reflects on the randomness of the world, such as little kids
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Dave Matthews Band – Rapunzel
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[Verse 1] / Ha, open wide, oh, so good I'll eat you, take me for a ride / In your sweet delicious, perfect little mouth / There upon I linger / You will have no doubt that I do my
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Dave Matthews Band – The Only Thing
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All of us we're always trying to catch up / Call just to let me know what you think / How is this never quite enough / Lost and always trying to get back, can we get back? / Oh
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Dave Matthews Band – Minarets
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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
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Dave Matthews Band – Do You Remember
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Do you remember / When we were small / Do you remember / When we believed / There was gold in the river / And ghosts in the attic / Don't go up there alone / The enemy's coming
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Dave Matthews Band – Lying in the Hands of God
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[Verse 1] / Baby I'll be your solider / Gladly I'll do your bidding / For just a taste of what you're holding / For just a taste you could own me / [Chorus] / Save your sermons
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Dave Matthews Band – So Much to Say
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About people who talk and talk, but truly have nothing significant to say.
Released in 1996 as the second single from Crash. It reached No. 19 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and
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Dave Matthews Band – Walk Around the Moon
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[Verse 1] / I had found a stranger walking in the woods / She was not quite like anyone I knew / Red dress, polka dots, shadows in her head / She said, "You take me and I take you
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Dave Matthews Band – Let You Down
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[Verse] / 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
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Dave Matthews Band – Warehouse
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A fan favorite at shows, the song changes the progression several times through out it.
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Dave Matthews Band – It Could Happen
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The lid was on so tight / You just had to bust out / Remember that first night / It fell right into our hands / Oh, and it happened, yes it did / Cut the cord, could not believe it
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Dave Matthews Band – Drunken Soldier
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Each line in the song reads as if it is a piece of advice an adult would give a child. Many lines are common idioms that children often hear from their parents.
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Dave Matthews Band – Angel
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Dave Matthews Band (Ft. Warren Haynes) – Cortez The Killer
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This is a Neil Young song that DMB covers. It is about Hernán Cortés, who conquered Mexico for Spain in the 16th century, destroying the Aztecs in the process.
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Dave Matthews Band – Long Black Veil
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Ten years ago, on a cold, dark night / Someone was killed beneath the town hall light / There were few at the scene, but they all agreed / That the slayer who ran looked a lot like
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Dave Matthews Band – Lie in Our Graves
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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
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Dave Matthews Band – Idea of You
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After school sitting on my front step / I remember waiting for you to walk past / You're just a dream to a little kid / But I'll catch up to you one day / And we'll laugh how
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Dave Matthews Band – Grey Street
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The third and final single from Busted Stuff, the second track off the album and fan favorite at shows.
The original version off The Lillywhite Sessions features added choruses
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Dave Matthews Band – Come On Come On
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[Verse 1] / There is a time for holding onto / And there is a time for letting go / You said "Come on let's go outside and then / I'm gonna make you, I'm gonna make you / [Pre-
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Dave Matthews Band – Dancing Nancies
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Matthews turns a young man’s existential crisis into song fodder in this open-ended treatise on the randomness of existence.
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Dave Matthews Band – Where Are You Going
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“Where Are You Going” is the first single from DMB album Busted Stuff. It is one of two songs from the album that did not originally appear on The Lillywhite Sessions.
It marked
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Dave Matthews Band – You Never Know
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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
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Dave Matthews Band – After Everything
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[Verse 1] / Love is the glue, sticks us together / I know you know you know you know that it is the truth / I make mistakes, you make mistakes, but it don't matter / Because we got
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