Dave Matthews Band

Genre: Pop, Rock

LSI Rank: 108 (-2) history

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Rhythm	8.8
Melody	8.5
Instruments	8.8
Lyrics	9.0
Vocal	9.0
This song has been reviewed 8 times. Overall score for this song, 8.8.

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Dave Matthews Band - Don't Drink The Water Lyrics

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Song details
Title	Don't Drink The Water
Artist	Dave Matthews Band
Album	At The United Center (Chicago) (2001) , Track 3 , Listener Supported (1999) , Track 8 Disc 2, Before These Crowded Streets (1998) , Track 4 , Live at Folsom Field - Boulder, Colorado (2002) , Track 1 , Central Park Concert (2003) , Track 1
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Song lyrics

Send "Don't Drink The Water" ringtones to your cell

Come out come out
No use in hiding
Come now come now
Can you not see?
There's no place here
What were you expecting
Not room for both
Just room for me
So you will lay your arms down
Yes I will call this home

Away away
You have been banished
Your land is gone
And given to me
And here I will spread my wings
Yes I will call this home
What's this you say
You feel a right to remain
Then stay and I will bury you
What's that you say
Your father's spirit still lives in this place
I will silence you

Here's the hitch
Your horse is leaving
Don't miss your boat
It's leaving now
And as you go I will spread my wings
Yes I will call this home
I have no time to justify to you
Fool you're blind, move aside for me
All I can say to you my new neighbor
Is you must move on or I will bury you

Now as I rest my feet by this fire
Those hands once warmed here
I have retired them
I can breathe my own air
I can sleep more soundly
Upon these poor souls
I'll build heaven and call it home
'Cause you're all dead now
I live with my justice
I live with my greedy need
I live with no mercy
I live with my frenzied feeding
I live with my hatred
I live with my jealousy
I live with the notion
That I don't need anyone but me
Don't drink the water
There's blood in the water

Send "Don't Drink The Water" ringtones to your cell

lyrics submitted by Heavy D

lyrics corrected by Matt

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27-07-2004 20:33 Sasha78
347 posts	DON'T DRINK THE WATER! Yeah, it's a cool song. But not my favorite..
13-08-2004 18:20 Jenna_Talia
14 posts	He uses this song for an opener alot and it always gets everyone hyped up for the rest of the concert.
29-09-2004 03:23 _Echo_
236 posts	Good song. Interesting lyrics..
04-04-2005 21:57 2Beatles2
49 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal
29-09-2005 19:50 beanziegirl
8 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Saxophone is sex! Truly spectacular preformace i do say! Just snapps to vixi for introducing me!
15-11-2005 03:49 Jenni_C
130 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal This song is... amazing. Infectious! I can't get enough...
15-11-2005 03:50 FireWaterBurn
28,885 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal I kinda like DMB, but this song blows big time.
20-12-2005 00:29 Juliie
96 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal I love this song. I just dont get it? haha what is it about?
26-03-2006 03:00 halfnavajoguy
17 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal this song is very important to me as a native american and i apprieaciate DMB for it
03-11-2009 19:49 rainking884
69 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal One of the 1st DMB-song I heard, and I was sold... Absolutely amazing. And I love the fact that Alanis is singing on this song as well. Couldn't imagine them working together AT ALL!!!
03-11-2009 19:52 rainking884
69 posts	@Juliie : As far as I understand it (and from what I've been told) this song is about the theft of the land from the Native Americans by the white people. Very courageous to choose that as a subject for a song!!