Dave Matthews Band Lyrics - Everyday

I Did It
I'm mixing up a bunch of magic stuff
A magic mushroom cloud of care
A potion that will rock the boat will rock
Make a bomb of love and blow it up

I did it
Do you think I've gone too far?
I did it
Guilty as charged
I did it
It was me right or wrong
I did it
Yeah

I never did a single thing that did a single thing to
Change the ugly ways of the world
I didn't know it felt so right inside
I didn't know at all
Open up the curtains I heard sirens there
The lights flash and crawl
But I did it justice I just did it for the buzz

It's a nickel or a dime for what I've done
The truth is that I don't really care
For such a lovely crime I'll do the time
You better lock me up I'll do it again

I did it
Do you think I've gone too far?
I did it
Guilty as charged
I did it
It was me right or wrong
I did it
Yeah

I never did a single thing that did a single thing to
Change the ugly ways of the world
I didn't know it felt so right inside
I didn't know at all
Open up the curtains I heard sirens there
The lights flash and crawl
But I did it justice I swear I did it for us all

All you people are the skewers of our dreams
Like the cat that collared me
Oh what I gotta say to you got love don't turn it down
Turn it loud, let it build
We got a long way to go
But you gotta start somewhere
Go door to door spread the love you got
You got the love, you get what you want
Does it matter where you get it from
I for one don't turn my cheek for anyone
Unturn your cheek to give your love, love to grow

I did it
Do you think I've gone too far?
I did it
Guilty as charged
I did it
It was me right or wrong
I did it
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I told you, I told you I did
I did it
Guilty as charged
I did it
I told you, I told you I did
I did it
Yeah

I never did a single thing that did a single thing to
Change the ugly ways of the world
I didn't know it felt so right inside
I didn't know at all
Open up the curtains I heard sirens there
The lights flash and crawl
But I did it justice I swear I did it for us all

When The World Ends
Oh when the world ends, collect your things
You're coming with me
When the world ends, you tuckle up yourself with me
Watch it as the stars disappear to nothing
The day the world is over
We'll be lying in bed

I'm gonna rock you like a baby when the cities fall
We will rise as the building's crumble
Float there and watch it all
Midst the burning we'll be churning
Love will be our wings
Passion rises from the ashes
When the world ends

When the world ends, you're gonna come with me
We're gonna be crazy like a river bends
We're gonna float through the criss cross of the mountains
Watch them fade to nothin'
When the world ends
You know that's what's happenin' now
I'm gonna be there with you somehow

I'm gonna tie you up like a baby in the carriage car
Your legs don't work 'cause you want me so
You just lie spread to the wall
Love you got is surely all the love I would ever need
I'm gonna take you by my side and love you tall till the world ends

But don't you worry about a thing
No 'cause I got you here with me
Don't you worry about a
Just you and me, floating through the empty empty
Just you and me
Oh graces
Oh grace

When the world ends, we'll be burning one
When the world ends, we'll be sweet makin' love
Oh you know when the world ends, I'm gonna take you aside and say
Let's watch it fade away fade away
The world's done, ours just begun
It's done, ours just begun

We're gonna dive into the emptiness
We be swimming
I'm gonna walk you through the pathless roads
I'm gonna take you to the top of the mountain that's no longer there
I'm gonna take you to bed and love you I swear like the end is here

I'm gonna take you up to
I'm gonna take you down on you
I'm gonna hold you like an angel, angel
I'm gonna love you
When the world ends
I'm gonna hold you
When the world is over
We'll just be begin...

The Space Between
You cannot quit me so quickly
Is no hope in you for me
No corner you could squeeze me
But I've got all the time for you love

The space between
The tears we cry
Is the laughter that keeps us coming back for more
The space between
The wicked lies we tell and hope to keep us safe from the pain

Will I hold you again
These fickle fuddled words confuse me
Like will it rain today
We waste the hours with talking talking
These twisted games we're playing

We're strange allies with warring hearts
What a wild eyed beast you be
The space between the wicked lies we tell and hope to keep us safe from the pain
Will I hold you again
Will I hold

Look at us spinning out in the madness of a rollercoaster
You know you went off like the devil in a church
In the middle of a crowded room
All we can do my love
Is hope we don't take this ship down

The space between
Where you smile and hide
Is where you'll find me if I get to go
The space between
The bullets in our fire fight
Is where I'll be hiding waiting for you
The rain that falls splashed in your heart
Ran like sadness down the window into your room
The space between our wicked lies is
Where we hope to keep safe from pain
Take my hand cause we're walking out of here
Right out of here is all we need dear

The space between
What's wrong and right
Is where you'll find me hiding
Waiting for you
The space between
Your heart and mind
Is the space we'll fill with time

Dreams of Our Fathers
I'm choking I'm choking
On the smoke from this burning house
I claw and I scrape
But I can't seem to get out oh
But who the who is this
That's scratching from the ground
It's my world too
But whose gold is this I'm digging out
When we go where we go
When we're dead
Is the verdict still out
Do we get into line
To line up with those long dead now
With muffled tears of sorrow
For bones underground
This is our time yes it is
Without or with this shadow of doubt

Don't want to wake up
Lost in the dreams of our fathers
It's such a waste child
To live and die for the dreams of our fathers
Though I must confess yes
My dreams are a wonder about this
This love I possess love
Must be the dreams of our fathers

I wanna go I wanna run
We turn and so sure someone's looking down
It's haunting me haunting me
Leaves us here to get out
Though I don't believe I don't believe
This flavor in my mouth
Is from my tongue alone
So bitter I wanna spit it out
I repeat these words
They come out
Under the blue light in this sky
My empty pages are filling up
With these wicked lies
But I hear deep in myself
An echo and echo
Of empty empty emptiness
Comes up and swells inside

Don't want to wake up
Lost in the dreams of our fathers
It's such a waste child
To live and die for the dreams of our fathers
Though I must confess yes
My dreams are a wonder about this
This love I possess love
Must be the dreams of our fathers

Rain on my head, rain on me
Can give this up
Rain on my life, again and again
Why can't I dream you away from me

Look at you look at you find new
Bloated floating, go belly down
Belly up in the water
But who is this here that drowned
We followed a drunken man
Got us spinning round
But it's like he swallowed himself
And didn't leave us a way out

Don't want to wake up
Lost in the dreams of our fathers
It's such a waste child
To live and die for the dreams of our fathers
Though I must confess yes
My dreams are a wonder about this
This love I possess love
Must be the dreams of our fathers

So Right
Roll uptown to midnight
Then roll on downtown till it's light
Because tomorrow we may die
Oh but tonight we're dancing in the fate light
Don't you rob yourself of what you're feeling
Don't rob yourself of all that you could be
Roll hard 'til midnight
Roll 'til its light, come on now

Stay up and make some memories here, with us now
To roll red carpet out with friends
To love and roll on
Our love is so right
I won't waste a minute here tonight
Our love is so right
And tonight my dance is all about you

To midnight love you
Roll on and run the red lights
Game now is keep it tight
How I love her pretty rock and roll kisses
Come on and stay with me
Roll on and run the red lights
Come this love is so right

Stay up and make some memories here, with us now
To roll the red carpet out with friends
To love and roll on
Our love is so right
I can taste we're in it here tonight
Our love is so right
And tonight my dance is all about you

I'm going crazy and it's all 'cause of you
It's all 'cause of you
I'm going under over you
This time now is so alive
Everybody's trance dancing tonight
So beautiful and so strange
It was empty till you came

If I Had It All
Sometimes I can't move my feet it seems
As if I'm stuck in the ground somehow like a tree
As if I can't even breathe
And my screams come whispering out
As if nobody can even see me, like a ghost
I can't see myself sometimes

Then again if I were a king, if I had everything
If I had you and I could give you your dreams
If I were giant size, on top of it all
Tell me what in the world would I sing for
If I had it all

Sometimes I feel lost
As I pull you out like strings of memories
Wish I could weave them into you
And I could figure the whole damn puzzle out
Then again

Then again if I were a king, if I had everything
If I had you and I could give you your dreams
If I were giant size, on top of it all
Tell me what in the world would I go on for
If I had it all

I could take anything
If I had no greed too big
Just poison tainting the green
Remembering time
Much younger than me now
When my breath was light
When the world raised me kind
Here the mother comforts child
Every moment was waking up
But now I have grown tired
If I had it all
Oh I'd fuck it up

If I were a king, if I had everything
If had you, if I could give you your dreams
If I were giant size, on top of it all
Tell me why in the world would I sing for
If I had it all

If I were a king, if I had everything
Piece by piece
If had you, if I could give you your dreams
If I were giant size, on top of it all
Tell me what in the world would I go on for
If I had it all

What You Are
I walk into this room, all eyes on me now
But I do not know the people inside
Look straight through me these eyes
Seeking more wisdom than I have to give away
Realize what you are

What you've become just as I have
Are you and I so unalike
Huddled here you just as I am
Afraid if we dance we might die
Mock the world live safe say why
Don't you know if you live life
Then you become what you are

The sea is unsparing
We're all drifting away
Away from you, but I pray for you now
Hoping to god on high
Is like clinging to straws while drowning
Realize what you are

What you've become just as I have
Are you and I so unalike
Huddled here you just as I am
Afraid if we dance we might die
Mock the world live safe say why
Don't you know when you live life
Then you become what you are

What you are is a beast in a lover's arms
What you are is the devil in a sweet sweet kiss
What you are is a puzzle to me

What you've become just as I have
Are you and I so unalike
Huddled here you just as I am
Afraid if we dance we might die
Rock the world, give till you die
Don't you know when you give life
Then you become what you are

Angel
I call you up
You pick up
You call my bluff
On the cards of love
You hold too close
Your hands to your chest
I can’t read your eyes
But I confess
It’s lonely far from you
Even when you’re right by me
It’s only why I wait for you
Take my hand yeah

Why do I beg like a child
For your candy
Why do I come after you
Like I do
I love you
Whatever you are I swear
You’ll be my angel
You

I play my cards
Best I can
But I lose my luck
When you’re not here
My darling heart
Won’t you please give in
I may be strong
But I want you back again
When you’re not here
It’s hard to pretend
It’s all all right
Again
When you’re not here love
It’s hard to pretend
It’s all all right…still

Why do I beg like a child
For your candy
Why do I run after you
Like I do
I love you
Whatever you are I swear
You’ll be my angel
You

Watch the deck
Count your cards
Makes no sense
That I’m always losing
When you’re gone

Why do I beg like a child
For your candy
Why do I run after you
Like I do
I love you
Whatever you are I swear
You’ll be my angel
You
When you’re gone

Fool To Think
Look at me dreaming of you
All I could hope is to have you
To have you walking with me
Laughing so in love we two
Almost drunkenly I did imbibe of this
Fantasy of you only

Was I a fool to think
The way you looked at me
I swear you did
But you looked away too quick
Was I a fool to think
That you would take me home, as if I was yours
Was I a fool to think at all

I've grown tired of love
You are the trouble with me
I watch you walk right by
I smile you do not notice me
Treat me recklessly
All you do is toss me pennies
But the silence in me is screaming
Won't you come and get me

You make a mess of me
I'd dance a thousand steps for you
If you say yes to me
I'll be whatever gets you through
You make a mess of me
Was I a fool
I'd dance a thousand steps for you
Was I a fool to think
Am I a fool for you

Sleep to Dream Her
I know I'll miss her later
Wish I could bend my love to hate her
Wish I could be her creator
To twist her arms now
She stares up at the stars when
The stars fell from her hair then
I bent down to collect them
And then she was gone

Oh I sleep just to dream her
I beg the night just to see her
That my only love should be her
Just to lie in her arms

Oh I came there to find out
Find out she made up her mind
My arms are all tied up
To me she was blind
This space between us
Where wingless dreams fall earless
Will you not bear me witness
With your back to me now
It seems so unnerving
Yet still somehow deserving
That she could hold my heart so tightly
And still not see me here

I know I'll miss her later
I wish I could bend my love to hate her
Wish I could be her creator
To be the light in her eyes

Mother Father
Mother Father please explain to me
Why a world so full of mystery
A place so bitter and still so sweet
So beautiful and yet so full of sad sad
Mother Father please explain to me
Why forests march to deserts be
While snow capped mountains melt away
What do we tell our babies
What do we say

Mother father please explain to me
How a man who rocks his child to sleep
Yet pulls the trigger on his brother's heart
He digs a hole right to the middle of a storm of hatred

Mother Father please explain to me
How it could be so this world has come to be
A precious balance in between
Such cruelty and such kindness please please

Mother Father please explain to me
How this world has come to be
Unequalled in her blessings oh I see
Unbridled hatred so extreme please tell me

Mother Father please explain to me
How the world has come to be so
Twisted between time and dreams

Oh Mother Father please explain to me
What's all this talk about
Spinning down down down down down
All this talk about
All these words without
And nothing done

Mother Father do you know
Why one man's belly overflows
Another sleeps in hungers bed
We'd trade our world for a piece of bread

Mother father please explain to me
How this rare world's come to be
A place so full of color yet overflowing always
In black and white black and white
Drowning in the waters of our

Mother father please explain to me
How the world has come to be
While still blessed in all the things we see
Such a sad sad home for you and me
Come on
Come on out you save yourself
We're taking on water
But we've got the freedom
There's no God above, no hell below
It's here with us, it's up to us
To keep afloat

Everyday
Pick me up from the bottom
Up to the top love everyday
Pay no mind to taunts or advances
I take my chances on everyday
Left to right, up and down love
I push up love love everyday
Jump in the mud
Get your hands dirty with
Love it up everyday

All you need is
All you want is
All you need is love
Everyday

Pick me up love from the bottom
Up onto the top love everyday
Pay no mind to taunts or advances
I'm gonna take my chances everyday
Left to right, up and up and inside out right
Good love fight for everyday
Jump in the mud mud
Get my hands filthy love
Give it up love
Everyday

What you've got, lay it down on me
Lift me up love up from the bottom
Up onto the top love everyday
Pick me up love
Lift me up love
To the top love
Everyday

All lyrics by Dave Matthews Band, 2001

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