Believe it or not, we spent a whole day in a college course on Child Developement disussing this song. Although certain parts may mean different things to different people (and some of my interpretations may be a stretch), the main gist of the song is the gradual developement of a child into a thinking, speaking individual.
I say my hell is the closet I’m stuck inside
Can’t see the light
Is a reference to being trapped inside the womb, with
...my heaven is a nice house in the sky
Got central heating and I’m alright
representing the exit from the womb.
Keep it locked up inside don’t talk about it...
Open up my head and let me out, little baby
Refers to baby's frustration at not being able to communicate yet.
Now, once baby reaches speaking age--and of course Dave Matthews, being a "deep" musical artist, talks about the shallowness of one's conversations once we can speak, despite baby's earlier yearning to communicate, having had "so much to say." And what does baby talk about when he can finally speak?--after he had, "so much to say?" and was stuck in his own "hell" of muteness?
The bloody weather!
And not just that, but other mundain topics over and over again, as represented by the lyrics
Here we have been standing for a long, long time
Treading trodden trails for a long, long time
The "trodden trails" (Nice alliteration by the way) are topics that have been disussed ad neaseum. Basicaslly, nobody has anything new to say, making Dave Matthew's repetitious chorus "so much to say" all the more ironic.
Pretty clever song for an ex bartender who never went to college.
Believe it or not, we spent a whole day in a college course on Child Developement disussing this song. Although certain parts may mean different things to different people (and some of my interpretations may be a stretch), the main gist of the song is the gradual developement of a child into a thinking, speaking individual.
Is a reference to being trapped inside the womb, with
representing the exit from the womb.
Refers to baby's frustration at not being able to communicate yet.
Now, once baby reaches speaking age--and of course Dave Matthews, being a "deep" musical artist, talks about the shallowness of one's conversations once we can speak, despite baby's earlier yearning to communicate, having had "so much to say." And what does baby talk about when he can finally speak?--after he had, "so much to say?" and was stuck in his own "hell" of muteness? The bloody weather! And not just that, but other mundain topics over and over again, as represented by the lyrics
The "trodden trails" (Nice alliteration by the way) are topics that have been disussed ad neaseum. Basicaslly, nobody has anything new to say, making Dave Matthew's repetitious chorus "so much to say" all the more ironic.
Pretty clever song for an ex bartender who never went to college.