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Unto your dreaming
When you're alone
Unplug the TV
Turn off your phone
Get heavy on with digging your ditch
Cause I'm digging a ditch where madness gives
Digging a ditch where silence lives
Digging a ditch for when I'm old
Digging a ditch where stories told
Where all these troubles
That weigh down on me will rise
Unto your dreaming
When you're alone
Where all these worries
Weigh heavy on my heart
Will rise, will rise, will rise...
Unto your dreaming
When you're alone
Unplug the TV
Turn off your phone
Get heavy on with digging your ditch
Cause I'm diggin a ditch where madness gives
Digging a ditch where silence lives
Digging a ditch and when I'm through
Digging this ditch I'll dig in for you
Where all these disappointments
That grow angry out of me will rise
Unto your dremaing
When you're alone
Not what you're sure be or what you've become
Just getting heavy on with digging your ditch
Cause I'm digging a ditch where madness gives
I'm digging a ditch where silence lives
Digging a ditch and when I'm through
Digging a ditch I'll give one you
Where all these disappointments
That grow angry out of me will rise
Unto your dreaming
When you're alone
Where all these habits
That weigh down on me will die
Will die, will die, will die...
Unto your dreaming
When you're alone
Unplug the TV
Turn off your phone
Get heavy on with digging your ditch
When you're alone
Unplug the TV
Turn off your phone
Get heavy on with digging your ditch
Cause I'm digging a ditch where madness gives
Digging a ditch where silence lives
Digging a ditch for when I'm old
Digging a ditch where stories told
Where all these troubles
That weigh down on me will rise
Unto your dreaming
When you're alone
Where all these worries
Weigh heavy on my heart
Will rise, will rise, will rise...
Unto your dreaming
When you're alone
Unplug the TV
Turn off your phone
Get heavy on with digging your ditch
Cause I'm diggin a ditch where madness gives
Digging a ditch where silence lives
Digging a ditch and when I'm through
Digging this ditch I'll dig in for you
Where all these disappointments
That grow angry out of me will rise
Unto your dremaing
When you're alone
Not what you're sure be or what you've become
Just getting heavy on with digging your ditch
Cause I'm digging a ditch where madness gives
I'm digging a ditch where silence lives
Digging a ditch and when I'm through
Digging a ditch I'll give one you
Where all these disappointments
That grow angry out of me will rise
Unto your dreaming
When you're alone
Where all these habits
That weigh down on me will die
Will die, will die, will die...
Unto your dreaming
When you're alone
Unplug the TV
Turn off your phone
Get heavy on with digging your ditch
Lyrics submitted by oofus, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Track duration: 04:51
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Unto your dreaming
When you're alone
Where all these habits
That weigh down on me will die
Will die, will die, will die...
I dug a hole, in my yard.
I dug a hole, I'm doing some landscaping work.
Yup, yup.
Anytime you've got something on your mind, stop.
And if that does not work, dig a hole...
That will put everything in perspective.
(in funny voice)
"I hate this train ride to the city everyday...
I just hate this train ride to the city..
I hate the commute...
the commute is driving me crazy..."
(regular dave voice)
mmm...go dig a ditch for 8 hours
(sings in loungy, happy dave voice)
"I love a commute....ah, traffic jam, yeah
feels good to me!"
- Dave Matthews
I love this song, and DMB!
theres the two subjects here as those "to be filled", and those being identified as "the filler"..
how about the dreaming tree. the tree giving fruit to those eating it. the giver here being the maker of the tree.
love is always seen as being a filler and something being filled...like a conversation., one speaking and the other hearing, or consuming a meal whereas there is a server and someong being served. then of course theres sex..a filler and one being filled. but these are all metaphoric images dave uses to describe agape love.
even a spoon where one lays snugly against another.
mankind is designed to be filled with joy and wrath. and man also will fill others with joy and wrath.
and here dave of course is speaking metaphorically of making himself a spiritual ditch..or sacrificial vessel.
to transfer joy from God to man and disapointments from man to God.
the "weight" rising of course is dave seeing himself as someone being primarily needful of God (feeling worthless) to being someone being used of God for anothers use. he is becoming a vessel fit to be used by understanding his "dreams"
he is describing himself as he is understanding himself as a "sacrificial vessel" in the form of a recorder of all events as well as the receiver of the understanding of why he does what he does.in the way of his visions.
he is becoming a sacrificial lamb or a vessel where sin is imputed upon, and given to God as well as growing in understanding through dreams given to him by God of what he's becoming.
think about nighly dreaming..isnt it the flushing out of your memories during rem sleep. the "dreaming" he's talking about here is visions that God gives man of his understanding of himself whereas the dream is not forgotten but is essential to unraveling everyday confusion.
so that the dreaming becomes the description of your understanding of your function as creating this grave within yourself to be sacrificed to God.
this is all mens destiny..loving another or "sacrificing" oneself for another.
where all these disappointment will rise
Or maybe it's more literal, every day we're a day closer to dying: digging a ditch (grave) is what life is, eventually life is over and we die. Dave isn't looking at this as a bad thing, though. His death is his climax of life, the last page in his saga.
One thing I have to ask: isn't it "undo your dreaming"? That's how I always heard it, not as "unto" which makes no sense to me. "Undo" makes more sense, since meditation is about undoing your conditioning, stopping the dream and waking up to real life.
It's not about suicide though, because he says it's for when he's old. I don't know why it seems like every slightly dark song on this site gets analyzed as being about suicide. People need to lighten up! :)
this is the place where all uncleaness is buried.
this also can simultaneously represent both death and heaven where forgiveness is asked for and received and all sin is given to God. (death is "inside" jesus; life). a place prepared where choices are changed..
a place where eventually everything is "buried" and replaced with something new.
this "grave" is the only place where no distractions are occurring. where perfect communication exists between self and God.