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".
those could all be misunderstood to be correct but this song is by willie nelson so dave didn't write it for any reason he just covers it, and it's about the human tendency to want to hold on to our mortality. We want to be left a part of this world, hence the "...make it shallow, so that I can feel the rain..." line.
those could all be misunderstood to be correct but this song is by willie nelson so dave didn't write it for any reason he just covers it, and it's about the human tendency to want to hold on to our mortality. We want to be left a part of this world, hence the "...make it shallow, so that I can feel the rain..." line.
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".
those could all be misunderstood to be correct but this song is by willie nelson so dave didn't write it for any reason he just covers it, and it's about the human tendency to want to hold on to our mortality. We want to be left a part of this world, hence the "...make it shallow, so that I can feel the rain..." line.
those could all be misunderstood to be correct but this song is by willie nelson so dave didn't write it for any reason he just covers it, and it's about the human tendency to want to hold on to our mortality. We want to be left a part of this world, hence the "...make it shallow, so that I can feel the rain..." line.
thank you!
thank you!