Listener Supported

First played live: 4.7.95

Appears on: crash
Live at luther college

Intros/outros: n/a


Dave matthews reveals that this song was written around the time he was
Undergoing a messy split over money with his mentor, ross hoffman. it was
Originally titled "police" or "41 police."



Come and see
I swear by now i'm playing time
I against my troubles
I'm coming slow but speeding
Do you wish a dance and while i'm
In the front
The play on time is won
But the difficulty is coming here

I will go in this way
And find my own way out
I wont tell you to stay
But i'm coming to much more
Me
All at once the ghosts come back
Reeling in you now
What if they came down crushing
Remember when i used to play for
All of the loneliness that nobody
Notice now
I'm begging slow i'm coming here
Only waiting i wanted to stay
I wanted to play
I wanted to love you

I'm only this far
And only tomorrow leads my way

I'm coming waltzing back and moving into your head
Please, i wouldn't pass this by
I would take any more than
What sort of man goes by
I will bring water
Why wont you ever be glad
It melts into wonder
I came in praying for you
Why wont you run
In the rain and play
Let the tears splash all over you

yeah, yeah i scream...
With you on my mind so heavy and so hard
I don't know quite everything
You make me think of a better thing...
Better things to fill my day with
But they don't mean to go
Please don't be too bad with me, god
Please don't be too good...
Let some women's light, women's light
Chain my hands with me singing...

Hani hani, come and dance for me
Whoa, whoa, sooner there
Hani hani, come and dance for me
Only the brave
Hani hani, come and dance for me
(feeling the night)
Hani hani, come and dance for me
Lead me back home to life

You made heaven turn to dirt
And dirt turn to dance on
Heaven come my way
Baby surely do
Maybe some moonlight
Maybe some, baby surely do
Maybe some moonlight
Say this say this...

Hani hani, come and dance for me
Underneath the moonlight
Hani hani come and dance for me

Hani hani, come and dance for me
Come on, come on go
Hani hani, come and dance for me
Give it back, give it back....

Oh man, i can't talk
A man was tall and once tore a piece of freedom for us all
When, then, you least expect it
Man can cut from of his own heart
For us all, that man
Don't believe it, oh yeah....
God, two men slice and dice each other up in his place
They don't believe it...
Well leave it
Leave it lying, leave it lying, leave it lying
Got me singing
Hani hani, come and dance for me

Say, my love, i came to you with best intentions
You laid down and gave to me just what i'm seeking
Love, you drive me to distraction
Hey my love do you believe that we might last a thousand years
Or more if not for this,
Our flesh and blood
It ties you and me right up
Tie me down
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
Hey, my love, you came to me like wine comes to this mouth
Grown tired of water all the time
You quench my heart and love,you quench my mind
Celebrate we will
Because life is short but
Sweet for certain
We're climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue
The things we cannot
Celebrate, you and me, climbing two by two, to be sure
These days continue, things we cannot change
Oh, my love i came to you
With best intentions
You laid down and gave to me
Just what i'm seeking
Celebrate we will
Because life is short
But sweet for certain
We're climbing two by two
To be sure these days continue
Things we cannot change...
Things we cannot change

lately i've been feeling low
A remedy is what i'm seeking
I take a taste of whats below
Come away to something better
What i want is what i've not got
And what i need
Is all around me
Reaching searching never stop
And i'll say...


If you could keep me floating
Just for a while
Till i get to the end of this tunnel mommy
If you could keep me floating
Just for a while
I'll get back to you

Sometimes a jimi thing slides my way and keeps me swinging
I'd like to show you what's inside
And i shouldn't care
If you don't like it
Brother chaos rule all about
Sometimes i walk there
Well yes god knows sometimes i take a bus there
Shouldn't care shouldn't care
Bereaved as i'm feeling

The day is gone
I'm on my back
Staring up at the ceiling
U take a drink sit back relax
Smoke my mind make me feel
Better for a small time
What i want is what i've not got
And what i need is all around me
Reaching searching never stop
And i'll say...

If you could keep me floating
Just for a while
Till i get to the end of this tunnel mommy
If you could keep me floating
Just for a while
I'll get back to you

ten years ago on a cold dark night
Someone was killed beneath the townhall light
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me
She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me

The judge said "son, what is your aliby?
If you were somewhere else, then you wont have to die."
I said not a word, though it meant my life,
For i'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife.
Oh, she walks these hills in a long black veil.
She visits my grave when the night winds wail.
Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me.

Oh, now the scaffold is high, eternity is near
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
And sometimes at night when the cold winds blow
In a long black veil she cries over my bones.
She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me.

Oh, she walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me.

Nobody knows. nobody knows, but me.
Nobody knows but me.

the stone


The stone by the dave matthews band

I've this creeping, suspicion that things here are not as they seem.
Reassure me, oh why do i feel as if i'm in too deep.
Now i've been praying, for some way to show them i'm not what they see.
Yes i have done wrong, but what i did i thought needed be done, i swear.

Oh, unholy day, if i leave now i might get away.
Oh but this weighs on me, as heavy as stone and as blue as i go.

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,
If not i'll go, i will go a long...

..long way, ah, from that fool's mistake.
And now forever pay, no run, i will run and i'll be ok.

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,
But if not i'll go, i will go a long...

...long way, "to bury the" past for i don't want to pay.
Oh how i wish, this, to turn back the clock and do over again.

Now i'm hust wondering if you'd come a-long.
Hold up my head when my head won't hold on.
I'll do the same if the same's what you want,
But if not i'll go, i'll go alone.

I need so, to stay in your arms, see you smile, hold you close.
And now it weighs on me, as heavy as stone and of bone chilling cold.

I was just wondering if you'd come a--long.
Tell me you will.

You've got your ball
You've got your chain
Tied to me tight tie me up again
Who's got their claws
In you my friend
Into your heart i'll beat again
Sweet like candy to my soul
Sweet you rock
And sweet you roll
Lost for you i'm so lost for you
You come crash into me
And i come into you
I come into you
In a boys dream
In a boys dream
Touch your lips just so i know
In your eyes, love, it glows so
I'm bare boned and crazy for you
When you come crash
Into me, baby
And i come into you
In a boys dream
In a boys dream
If i've gone overboard
Then i'm begging you
To forgive me
In my haste
When i'm holding you so girl
Close to me
Oh and you come crash
Into me, baby
And i come into you
Hike up your skirt a little more
And show the world to me
Hike up your skirt a little more
And show your world to me
In a boys dream.. in a boys dream
Oh i watch you there
Through the window
And i stare at you
You wear nothing but you
Wear it so well
Tied up and twisted
The way i'd like to be
For you, for me, come crash
Into me

there must be some way out of here,
Said the joker to the theif.
There's too much confusion
I can't get nooooooo relief
Business men they,
Drink my wine.
There plowmen dig my earth.
None of them along the line
Know what any of it's worth.
No reason to get excited,
The theif he kindly spoke.
There are many among us,
Who feel that life is but a joke (ha ha- ha ha)
But you and i we've been through all that,(yes we have)
And this is not our fate.
So let us not talk falsly *now*,
The hour is getting neaaarrr
And all along the watchtower,
Prince's kept the view.
While all the women all the women all the women came and went
Barefoot servatnts too.
Out side in the cold distance,
A wild cat did growl la la la la la
Two riders two riders approaching,
The wind began to howwwwwllll
The theif he take
My money take
The theif he take
My money take
Am i insane
Auf wiedersehen
Am i insane
The theif is safe
No reason to get excited! (yeah!....)