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Artist: Dave Matthews Band
Track: Don't Drink The Water

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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
Not 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 to me
And here I will spread my wings
Yes I will call this home
What's this you say
You feel a right to remain
Then stay and I will bury you
What's that you say
Your father's spirit still lives in this place
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

Now as I rest my feet by this fire
Those hands once warmed here
I have retired them
I can breathe my own air
I can sleep more soundly
Upon these poor souls
I'll build heaven and call it home
'Cause you're all dead now
I live with my justice
I live with my greedy need
I live with no mercy
I live with my frenzied feeding
I live with my hatred
I live with my jealousy
I live with the notion
That I don't need anyone but me
Don't drink the water
There's blood in the water
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Dave Matthews Band "Don't Drink The Water": Come out come out No use in hiding Come now come now Can you not see? There's no place here What wer...
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Dave Matthews Band – Don't drink the water - live in rio
Don't drink the water, yeah / 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
Dave Matthews Band – Don't Drink the Water (Live at Mile High Music Festival)
Don't drink the water, yeah / 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
Dave Matthews Band – Don't Drink the Water - Live at Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ - September 1999
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 / Not room for both / Just room for me / So you will
Dave Matthews Band – #41 - live at mile high music festival
Come and see / I swear by now / I'm playing time against my troubles, oh / Oh, I'm coming slow but speeding / Do you wish a dance? / And while I'm in the front / The play on time
Dave Matthews Band – So much to say - live at mile high music festival
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 / Yeah, yeah, yeah / Can't
Dave Matthews Band – Too much - live at mile high music festival
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
Dave Matthews Band – Tripping billies - live at mile high music festival
We were above / You were 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
Dave Matthews Band – Jimi thing - live at mile high music festival
Lately I've been feeling low / A remedy is what I'm seeking / I 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
Dave Matthews Band – Ants marching - live at mile high music festival
He wakes up in the morning / Does his teeth, bite to eat, and he's rollin' / Never changes a thing / The week ends, the week begins / She thinks, we look at each other / Wonderin
Dave Matthews Band – So damn lucky - live at mile high music festival
Everything's different with my head in the clouds / I hit this corner with my foot on the gas / I started sliding, I lose it / Everything's different just like that / Oh my God
Dave Matthews Band – Gravedigger - live at mile high music festival
Cyrus Jones 1810 to 1913 / Made his great grandchildren believe / You could live to 103 / A hundred and three is forever when you're just a little kid / So, Cyrus Jones live
Dave Matthews Band – Satellite - live at mile high music festival
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
Dave Matthews Band – You might die trying - live at mile high music festival
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
Dave Matthews Band – Anyone seen the bridge - live at mile high music festival
Saturday light shows / Playing your love you don't have so predicab[le] / Thinking of ever going long i stop / Play it out they begun smoke gots a big game / How's it rolling
Dave Matthews Band – Old dirt hill (bring that beat back) - live at mile high music festival
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 / I
Dave Matthews Band – Eh Hee - live at mile high music festival
Eh hee yeah amanaya yeaha yeah eh eh amana / Eh hee yeah amanaya yeaha yeah eh eh amana / Eh hee yeah amanaya yeaha yeah eh eh amana / Eh hee yeah amanaya yeaha yeah eh eh / Praise
Dave Matthews Band – Proudest monkey - live at mile high music festival
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
Dave Matthews Band – Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin) - Live at Mile High Music Festival
Lookin' at the devil, grinnin' at his gun / Fingers start shakin', I begin to run / Bullets start chasin', I begin to stop / We begin to wrestle, I was on the top / I want to thank
Dave Matthews Band – Two step - live at mile high music festival
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
Dave Matthews Band – Stay (Wasting Time) - Live At Mile High Music Festival
We were walking / Just the other day / It was so hot outside / You could fry an egg / Remember you were talking / I watched as sweat ran down your face / Reached up and caught it
Dave Matthews Band – Cornbread - live at mile high music festival
Dancing with the devil 'round the fire / Messed your momma's bed for a little more magic / Makes you wanna run around naked / 'cause you know it looks good on you / You ain't never
Dave Matthews Band – Sledgehammer - live at mile high music festival
Hey, hey you do? / Hey you wanna do a job? / You could have a steam train / If you'd just lay down your tracks / You could have an aeroplane flying / If you bring your blue sky
Dave Matthews Band – Louisiana bayou - live at mile high music festival
No, no, mamma now devil done do-si-do / See two young boys lyin' dead by the side of the road / The coins in their eyes represent the money they owed / No judge or jury ever gonna
Dave Matthews Band – What would you say - live at piedmont park
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
Dave Matthews Band – So much to say - live at piedmont park
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 / Yeah, yeah, yeah / Can't
Dave Matthews Band – Anyone seen the bridge - live at piedmont park
Saturday light shows / Playing your love you don't have so predicab[le] / Thinking of ever going long i stop / Play it out they begun smoke gots a big game / How's it rolling
Regdar and the Fighters – The Eau Claire Music Scene
Everyone plays acoustic/electric guitar / Everyone here acoustic/electric guitar / Everyone plays; everyone here / Everyone here plays acoustic electric guitar / Hey, my love, you
Dave Matthews Band – #40 - live at piedmont park
Tables turned again and you my friend / You and I face each other, time in time out / I know its sometimes hard / But knowing just darling that we will get along until we are old
Dave Matthews Band – Stay (Wasting Time) - Live At Piedmont Park
We were walking / Just the other day / It was so hot outside / You could fry an egg / Remember you were talking / I watched as sweat ran down your face / Reached up and caught it
Dave Matthews Band – You might die trying - live at piedmont park
To change the world, start with one step / However small, the first step is hardest of all / Once you get your gait, you'll be walkin' tall / You said you never did, cuz you might
Dave Matthews Band – All along the watchtower - live at piedmont park
There must be some kind of way out of here / Said the joker to the thief / Too much confusion / I can't get no relief / Business men, they drink my wine / Plow men dig my Earth
Dave Matthews Band – Too much - live at piedmont park
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
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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
Dave Matthews Band – The dreaming tree - live at piedmont park
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
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Q:Who wrote “Don’t Drink the Water” by Dave Matthews Band?
“Don’t Drink the Water” by Dave Matthews Band was written by Dave Matthews.
Q:When did Dave Matthews Band release “Don’t Drink the Water”?
Dave Matthews Band released “Don’t Drink the Water” on April 28, 1998.
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