| Sublime – Mary/Big Salty Tears (Acoustic) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It brings a tear to my eye when I think of how much music Brad had left to give that we'll never have the honor of hearing. Pure musical genius that never got a chance to peak... | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Pay for What You Get Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The title of this song is a play on words. I'm sure most of us at some point in our lives have heard the old cliche "You get what you pay for". The old cliche implies that everyone has equal opportunity to choose from many options and if you try to cut corners you'll end up with something inferior. Dave is applying this to life in general and is trying to say the opposite; That you can work hard and live an honest life yet still get shitted, while others who didn't work nearly as hard or are not good people can take all the spoils. It didn't have anything to do with what either of you "paid", you get what you get. Hence, "Pay For What You Get". The choruses tell us the original thing that lead Dave to ponder such a depressing thought and it is only the same thing that inspired most of the greatest songs ever written... a female, of course! Probably that same gal made infamous by "Halloween" and "Grey Street" (and arguably "The Stone"). A lot of people probably would say things like "Why would she dump such a fine young gentleman such as yourself? Has she really lost her mind?". This obvious contradiction was starting to make him lose his own mind. At the time he was probably beginning to realize that no matter what he does it isn't going to make her be with him, which then evolved into the much broader viewpoint he conveys in the first verse; Good things don't always come to good people. But WAIT A SECOND, just when you thought Dave was going to just sit around and cry about it all the time like your sorry ass does, heres comes the second verse. Bringing out yet another tired cliche most of us have heard throughout our lives, "A bird in hand is [better than two in the bush]". At it's core this cliche is trying to tell you to appreciate what you DO have, though Dave is starting to wonder if maybe it is really advocating that you should forget about striving for the best and just settle for what you've got. That sometimes people so desperately want something that they settle for the first thing that resembles it since they think that is better than not having anything at all, and then they complain and wonder "Why can't I have better" when it is because they themselves settled for worse. Is that what he was doing with this woman of his? Does he desire love so much that settled on this woman and her "love" instead of striving for the best? The rest of the song is just more of the same, and I think by now the meaning is clear. But, thats just... like... my opinion, man. Brandon |
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