Best of What's Around

Hey my friend
It seems your eyes are troubled
Care to share your time with me
Would you say you're feeling low and so
A good idea would be to get it off your mind

See you and me
Have a better time than most can dream
Have it better than the best
So we can pull on through
Whatever tears at us
Whatever holds us down
And if nothing can be done
We'll make the best of what's around

Turns out not where but who you're with
That really matters
And hurts not much when you're around
And if you hold on tight
To what you think is your thing
You may find you're missing all the rest

Well she ran up into the light surprised
Her arms are open
Her mind's eye is

Seeing things from a
Better side than most can dream
On a clearer road I feel
Oh you could say she's safe
Whatever tears at her
Whatever holds her down
And if nothing can be done
She'll make the best of what's around

Turns out not where but what you think
That really matters
We'll make the best of what's around~DMB

A little Dave this morning - it's by far one of my favorites of theirs. I'm currently reading a biography of theirs of sorts. It's written by a fan with mainly accounts from other fans. It's fabulous. With every sentence I read, it reaffirms my love and passion for a band that meant and still means so much to me. Dave Matthews Band was the majority of the music I listened to in high school and college. It used to drive my roommate Netty nuts but she respected it and even started to sing a few of the songs. My affinity for these guys only grew with each live show I attended. It was, as several people in the book say, an experience. The sound, music, lyrics, everything was exactly what I needed to hear at a time in my life when some things weren't always great.

Some of my favorite songs include but are not limited to:
Album: Remember Two Things
Song: Ants Marching
Fave Lyric: "She thinks, we look at each other
Wondering what the other is thinking
But we never say a thing
These crimes between us grow deeper"

Album: Remember Two Things
Song: Recently
Fave Lyric: "People stare and we just ignore
What's the use in hiding out
She says all the time
Let their eyes do the worrying about"

Album: Remember Two Things
Song: Seek Up
Fave Lyric: "Forget about the reasons and
the treasons we are seeking
Forget about the notion that
our emotions can be swept away
Intentions are not wicked, don't be tricked into thinking so
And soon we will all find our lives swept away"

Album: Under the Table and Dreaming
Song: Best of What's Around
Fave Lyric: "Turns out not where but who you're with
That really matters
And hurts not much when you're around"

Album: Under the Table and Dreaming
Song: Dancing Nancies
Fave Lyric: "What's the use in worrying, what's the use in hurrying
Turn, turn we almost become dizzy
I am who I am who I am who am I
Requesting some enlightenment
Could I have been anyone other than me?"

Album: Under the Table and Dreaming
Song: Warehouse
Fave Lyric: "And here is it
Life goes on, end of tunnel, tv set
Spot in the middle
State fade, statistical bit
And soon I'll fade away, I'll fade away
This I admit
Taste so good, hard to believe an end to it"

Album: Crash
Song: So Much To Say
Fave Lyric: "I find sometimes it's easy to be myself
Sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else"

Album: Crash
Song: Two Step
Fave Lyric: "Celebrate we will
Because life is short but sweet for certain
We're climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue
These things we cannot change"

Album: Crash
Song: #41
Fave Lyric: "I will go in this way
And find my own way out"
*If you've ever gotten an email from me - you now know which song this quote comes from :-)

Album: Crash
Song: Lie in Our Graves
Fave Lyric: "Would you not like to be
Sitting on top of the world with
Your legs hanging free
Would you not like to be ok, ok, ok?"

Album: Before These Crowded Streets
Song: Rapunzel
Fave Lyric: "For you I would crawl
Through the darkest dungeon
Climb the castle wall
If you are my Rapunzel
You let your hair down
Right in through your window
Good they locked the door
I do my best for you
I think the world of you
All of my heart I do
Blood through my veins for you
You alone have all of me
I give my world to you
To you I will be true"

Album: Before These Crowded Streets
Song: The Stone
Fave Lyric: "I was just wondering if you'd come along
Hold up my head when my head won't hold on
I'll do the same if the same's what you want"

Album: Before These Crowded Streets
Song: Pig
Fave Lyric: "Love love what more is there
We need the light of love in here
Don't beat your head
Dry your eyes
Let the love in there
There are bad times
But that's ok
Just look for love in it
Don't burn the day away"

Album: Everyday
Song: The Space Between
Fave Lyric: "The Space Between
The tears we cry
Is the laughter keeps us coming back for more"

Album: Everyday
Song: Everyday
Fave Lyric: "Pick me up, oh, from the bottom
Up to the top, love, everyday
Pay no mind to taunts or advances
I take my chances on everyday"

Album: Lillywhite Sessions (aka Busted Stuff)
Song: Grey Street
Fave Lyric: The whole song! (I always thought this song was about me)

Album: Lillywhite Sessions
Song: Where are You Going?
Fave Lyric: "Where are you going?
Where do you go?
Are you looking for answers
To questions under the stars?
Well, if along the way
You are grown weary
You can rest with me until
A brighter day and you're okay"

Album: Lillywhite Sessions
Song: Grace is Gone
Fave Lyric: "One drink to remember, then another to forget
How could I ever dream to find sweet love like you again
One drink to remember, and another to forget"

Album: Stand Up
Song: Louisiana Bayou
Fave Lyric: "Oh it's a shame to lose your way running wild
It's a shame to lose the light that shines (shame shame)
Oh it's a shame to lose your way as a child"

Album: Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
Song: Shake Me Like a Monkey
Fave Lyric: "Do you know what it is
To feel the light of love inside you?
And all the darkness falls away
If you feel the way I feel
Then believe we have the answer
I've been searching for tonight"

Album: Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
Song: Why I Am
Fave Lyric:"Its the lose and the win of the world
Wrong and right, us and them of the world
It's the you and the me of the world
Only one way out of the world"

Album: Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
Song:Alligator Pie
Fave Lyric: "All the things we know and
Everything we hoped for
All the things we wanted"

Album: Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
Song: You and Me
Fave Lyric: "You and I, we're not tied to the ground
Not falling but rising like rolling around
Eyes closed above the rooftops
Eyes closed, we're gonna spin through the stars
Our arms wide as the sky
We gonna ride the blue all the way to the end of the world
To the end of the world"

Additional solo albums by Dave with some of my fave songs:
Album: Some Devil
Song: Gravedigger
Fave Lyric: "Cyrus Jones 1810 to 1913
Made his great granchildren believe
You could live to a hundred and three
A hundred and three is forever when you're just a little kid
So Cyrus Jones lived forever"

Album: Some Devil
Song: Stay or Leave
Fave Lyric: "Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you should
It was good as good goes
Stay or leave
I want you not to go
But you did"

ANNNNNND now I'm finished :-) If you read all of them - congrats! Just a few faves. Keep in mind, I remember mostly ALL of the lyrics from all of is songs. Yup. I <3 DMB big time :-)