Dave Matthews – Too High

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  General Comment:>The song is about a woman (or women in general):
  
  Your bones are brittle inside you
  Wrapped so soft, your blood is running,
  
  >And a man's attraction:
  
  I'll be there
  If you're moving slowly we still get there
  I'll be there
  Such a strong desire
  
  Hunger
  
  
  >And how women abuse this attraction to their own detriment because with time they get old and this power fades:
  
  Oh you need to hope you keep your head, yeah
  The slow hand quickens
  
  What you've done with all those around you
  
  > And how men who are burned by women like this come to resent them and have no pity on them when time turns the tables:
  
  But I'll be there
  To watch you sulk, returning seething
  I'll be there
  Minutes hold onto hours
  Gets you twisting
  
  > And how those women continue to do this either completely oblivious or just uncaringly:
  
  How'd you leave it with the love you lost
  You made them crawl to be without you
  
  > But ultimately, time turns the tables. Women's attractiveness fades and they end up alone and time only makes it worse, nothing will them back to their youth:
  
  Yeah sand is empty in the hourglass
  I'll be there
  To turn it over and over in your head
  So you keep the hope you get your day, yeah
  
  The slow hand quickens, oh
  You seem too hard to break, too cold
  To burn, afraid your chance is gone
  Your wires are crossed, your mouth is lost
  You fear you left it far too long
  The minutes pass, the hours are gone
  So hard to find your way alone
  
  
  > After using and squandering men's desire, the woman loses her power to the ravages of time and ends up bitter and alone.
  
  
  

  Flag GT66on September 09, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:When I first heard this song (some years ago) I thought that he was talking about a vampire.
  Today after reading all of the above comments I think that it means what we recognize in our own life.
  
  Regardless, I love the mood that it puts me in.

  Flag DoublyDanon November 24, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:Hate to sound crass, but does anyone else think this could be about, um, masturbation?

  Flag cityondown78on January 11, 2009   Link

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    Yes, someone else does:) Maybe it's the spring in the air, but it's exactly what came to my mind when I heard it for the 1st time - and I still think it's right. It's about lonely person missing touch of her lover, after she drove him away, being cold and thinking too hard instead of feeling - maybe she's afraid of feeling.

    Flag Stylianeon April 01, 2011  
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  General Comment:never been able to understand dave, but his music, wow, gets me everytime, especially the symphony ending to this one!

  Flag nancies41on June 10, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:this song is clearly about addiction, and being soo high all the time. all you need to hope you keep your head?... your drug to get your fix... "the slow hand wuickens"... you need that fix again.
  "Hopeful always that someone
  Will come and save you but I'll be there " - the drug dealer and "I'll" is the drug... you'll eventually get your fix. thats what i think, look at the lyrics.

  Flag akonvion March 09, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:this is one of my favorites from the song and i must say from my point of view i see it as the narrator has realized the true face or personality of a person that they were close to or possibly loved ... and they used the narrator and now the narrator is watching the person going to tough times and the narrator is not there for that person to lean or for their help... and the tides a turning giving you the "The slow hand's quicker" where the narrator is starting to get the upper hand over the person that was once using them and they're catching onto it

  Flag Linthorneon December 04, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:i just found this song. i love the mood that it put me in. i think that all songs have meaning whether it's just to sound funny or if its to sound warm and beautiful the words behind it still come from daves heart and soul but its also about what the song means to you. why am i stalling? well i donno what this song means to me yet other then it sounds very VERY intriging.

  Flag zaneron March 19, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:The song is about growing old and living a lonely wasted life. The line "the slow hand quickens" refers to the short hand of a clock. Your time is running out.

  Flag fortyoneon February 14, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:in the song just before this on the some devil album, up and away, dave sings
  'Little darling, in your eyes
  Got me all up and away
  You get me high'
  he describes a beautiful whole love. maybe this is a reaction song after the couple from up and away break up

  Flag hank_wisneron February 11, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:i'm almost positive that this song is literally about being too high.

  Flag rossmg7on February 19, 2006   Link

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