| Dave Matthews Band – Warehouse Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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I can't say this is my favorite dave song, I honestly don't always like to hear it, but it's definately the most emotional for me. I don't know what Dave was thinking about when he wrote it, but to me it's about a place he wants to live, but for some reason now must leave. A week before my junior year of college started, my parents announced they bought a new house nowhere near home "but it's OK because you're away at school anyway." A few weeks later I heard this song for the first time. This was exactly what was in my head. every line. The empty house, my sadness and fright. The thoughts of hope, "In a corner I was wondering If a change would be better than this" The last paragraph is the most striking. "That's our blood down there Seems poured from the hands of angels But trickle into the ground " literally the blood tears and sweat shead as children. "Leaves the warehouse bare and empty And my heart's numbered beat Still echo in this empty room " The first time I heard this, it was exactly my fear, my warm loving home, bare and empty, me knowing the time I could stay there was limited, my numbered beats, I swear I could've counted them. "And fear wells in me But nothing seems good enough to defend " This was the keystone of the song for me. It took a while before I figured out about things good enough to defend. I defend my home with all I have, with my life, with my [figurative] sword and [literal] pen. I don't think I could ever be as passionate about another town anywhere, like my own. I think I'd lose much of my passion, and settle into the tired monotony of middle-class-suburbia. "So I am going away, I'm going away..." I've cried so much to this song. Not because of the song, just because, to me at least, Dave went through the same thing. PS - I'm moving back to the same town when I graduate. I've traveled much of the world "Hoping to find something better" and I never did. |
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