Sweet Up and Down

I guess this song is kind of meanigless if you've never heard it. There's some really good music that goes with "I believe in love/I think you're just fine/On the sweet up and down". I believe it's saying love is something you have to create yourself- if it doesn't work out, chance is that it's your fault. You have to seize the day and not hold back or else you'll lose that love.

i think when dave says sweet up and down that he's talking about life, because you have good and bad times, your spirits are up and down, but love will prevail no matter what, i really like this song, and i wish that it would be featured on busted stuff

it seems as if the song is trying to convice one to love/date/whatever. When he's talking about how sometimes you get what you get and other times you don't as in being a good or bad relationship, and the bad times relationship or not having the relationship seems to bring you down 'bad times choke us all once or twice' and then with the stanza after that is him saying love is nothing with out you... ehh just a thought

wish this song were on BUSTED STUFF. Absolute shame it was left off....probably never will be played again either.

sweet up and down ... didn't you consider it's about raw, passionate sex?

I believe this song is about how sex can symbolize a relationship. Up and down inside out. Sounds like sex or does it sound like life? Very double meaning to this song wether Dave was aware of it we may never know but none the less it is a terrific song.

Sweet Up & Down.. what can i say? This is one of his best songs live. I have a 3 cd set of the concert on 12/23/03 and sweet up and down is on it... I've played it back many times, and to me it sounds like the guy's about to "get busy" with a girl he's very attracted to, but then he thinks about the girl he actually Loves and can't go through with the deed. Sweet up and down is most definately about sex.

"Inside-out, her neat little pose Dirty, little girl Climbs out of the hole in her own"

He's describing the girl getting herself off in front of him while he's thinking the song in his head.

"I believe in love But believe it's my heart that keeps turning me down."

He believes in the physical act of making love... but it's his relationship with another girl (his heart) that prevents him from making love /w this new girl.

"I believe in love But think nothing about it when you're not around "

He's saying here that he has no love for this new girl.

"Pig he needs to eat like us all Not far from the beast Man sits down to feast on this part "

He like every other man has certain sexual cravings that must be satisfied, a pig must eat, a man must make love. The last line of the quote he relates to the previous two; he says that men use this excuse of everyone having certain desires all too often to justify it.

I apologize for the long post, but i don't think the song was getting the attention it deserved.

Let me thank dave and his friends for adding new flavor to this tune, which has been replayed and dissected by me so many times, i would consider myself a sweetupanddownologist. But, a lenghty explanation is not necessarily. Just picture a Dirtay Ol' southern boy writing a song about Sex and throw in alot of gibberish and nonsense and that's what we've got here. I would rather hear trey anastasio soloing out anyday over hearing boyd tinsley on this one, sorry but this song goes to dave and friends and should be kept in the safe until they are reunited (if)

cool song and band

the song is clearly about sex and nothing more