| Dave Matthews Band – JTR Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Well, Dave was a Quaker to be exact. He doesn't really practice religion but still retains the parts of his religion that guides his life, or so I've seen him quoted as saying multiple times. The Lillywhite Sessions was indeed recorded prior to Everyday but the band didn't agree with the direction that the producer, Steve Lillywhite, was taking the album and was fired after having recorded 4 albums with DMB. The album was shelved, they went on the road for their 2000 Summer Tour and afterwards flew to LA to work with Glen Ballard on the shelved album. Instead they developed a whole new album of songs, released as Everyday. In 2001, the lead singer of the infamous DMB cover group Ants Marching, Craig Knapp, recieved a copy of the lost and unfinished Lillywhites, contacted Steve about the album and posted the conversation on his site. A hardcore fan forged an e-mail from Lillywhite to Knapp giving him the okay to release the sessions - it spread like wildfire, satisfying fans who thought Everyday was too pop-like. Then 2002, they released Busted Stuff, leaving three songs off the list and adding others. The band was quoted in saying that Busted Stuff was re-recorded to make the songs and the general feel of the album more upbeat. JTR, Sweet Up and Down and Monkey Man were the abandon pieces. Monkey Man was never played live, Sweet Up and Down was played early on, but never professionally released on a concert album and thus leaving JTR the only one of the three that you can find and purchase. So the story goes... Just FYI. I prefer some of the Lillywhite Lyrics to the common lyrics that Dave uses now. But, how can Dave do anything that I won't like?! : ) |
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| Dave Matthews Band – #41 Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Well, yeah, I think Dave just likes messing with fans. Reading previously someone said that Dave was quoted in concert saying that it was originally titled 41 Police - hard to believe though - and then if you listen to Live at Luther College, he says "This is our newest song, it's called creatively as it's the 41st that we wrote, um, it's called #41." I think Dave is just being all encompassing with this song. This one gets me through everything though. I love Dave Matthews passionately. "I swear by now I'm playing time against my troubles." I think that one line explains it all. Vague but true. |
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| Dave Matthews – Gravedigger Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I don't agree with the idea that it's about not wanting to die. Dave Matthews has had so much death in his life that it is a subject that he is completely comfortable with and is suggested and expressed in many more songs than this. The different ages and time periods of the individuals expresses a sort of succeptability to death in us all which is something Dave has experienced, with the death of his father, his sister and so on. This succeptability is even suggested in the rhyme "Ring Around the Rosey" about the plague and how the plague did not strike just these specific types of people, but that it had no mercy - just like death but we tend to live our lives believing that death is not something we concern ourselves with until we are much older or we have had such experiences as Dave. I also believe, like slowkut, that Dave is also expressing his own spiritual belief of the afterlife. That mortal death is not the ultimate end, and you live on spiritually in the literal sense and in the figurative sense, you're memories allow a sort of immortality: "...so Cyrus Jones lived forever". |
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