Genius Meanings
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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 – Ants marching - live in rio
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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
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Dave Matthews Band – Ants Marching (Live at Red Rocks)
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[Banter: Dave Matthews] / Hey everybody, God bless you / Y’all been great, thank you so much for staying up with us tonight / Y’all keep well; we’ll see you again, no doubt / He
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Neil Cicierega – D'oh
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“D'oh” is an interesting mashup revolving around Dave Matthews Band’s “Ants Marching” with various other songs and sounds layered over it, including Austin Powers' iconic “Yeah
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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 (Ft. John Popper & Michael McDonald) – What Would You Say
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The band’s debut single with RCA and the one that set it on the road to widespread success. With a guest appearance by Blues Traveler frontman John Popper and a quirky music video
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Dave Matthews Band – The Song That Jane Likes
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One of the first songs Matthews wrote. The Jane who likes the song is his sister.
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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 – Proudest monkey - live at mile high music festival
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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
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Dave Matthews Band – Proudest monkey - live at mile high music festival
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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
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Dave Matthews Band – Recently
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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 / And
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Dave Matthews Band – Tripping billies - live at mile high music festival
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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
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Dave Matthews Band – I'll Back You Up
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Dave Matthews Band – Stay (Wasting Time) - Live At Mile High Music Festival
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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
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Dave Matthews Band – Typical Situation
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A single from the band’s RCA debut album Under the Table and Dreaming.
The lyrics are inspired by a Robert Dederick poem named “A Prayer in the Pentagon,” which similarly counts
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Dave Matthews Band – One Sweet World
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[Verse 1] / Nine planets around the sun / Only one does the sun embrace / Upon this watered one / So much we take for granted / [Chorus] / So let us sleep outside tonight / Lay
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Dave Matthews Band – Too much - live at mile high music festival
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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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Dave Matthews Band – Anyone seen the bridge - live at mile high music festival
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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
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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 – Satellite
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The fifth and final single from 1994’s Under the Table and Dreaming, it stretched into the top 20 on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart.
The music video was the third and final
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Dave Matthews Band – Gravedigger - live at mile high music festival
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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
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Dave Matthews Band – Melissa - live at piedmont park
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Crossroads, seem to come and go, yeah / The gypsy flies from coast to coast / Knowing many, loving none / Bearing sorrow havin' fun / But back home he'll always run / To sweet
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Dave Matthews Band – So damn lucky - live at mile high music festival
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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
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