Folks who upload audio with a few pictures make it so much harder to find the genuine vidio clips. The best place for stuff like this is your C drive.
Im a huge DmB fan but never cared too much for this song.........my cousin be playing it off the hook, and now im addicted to it!!!! Dave your a genius in many ways
I love this song. Its such impressive insight and skillful wording of an observation on out world focused on tangible things and selfishness. Dave is an amazing song writer.
Wow... seems a few people here have lost their perspective on things. This is an absolutely beautiful song and you are highly disrespecting it by acting immature and posting all of this negative energy. Dave is all about the music... if you can't respect that, then don't say anything at all.
wow.. do you even listen to either band much? i wouldnt say anything if there was any kind of resemblance but... just... i dont know where ur comin from on that one dude. im not trying to be a jerk or anything.
Sure, adam bighead. If you have to belittle other people who happen to disagree with you, sure. that's cool. Hopefully, you realize that you're just making yourself look like a tool.
I think ya'll need to remember that unless the lyrics are printed on the dust jacket, or on the net as being from the band, it's all just conjecture. For example:
"we're taken the water" doesn't make sense to me, but
"we're taking on water" does, when you combine it with the lyric "It's up to us to keep afloat"
Similarly:
"Come on out you" seems wrong, it would make more sense as
"Comin On At Ya"
and "Let the blue planet" is just stupid. Try "Little Blue Planet" instead.
Awesome song! I love a song either due to the song writing or the beat. Mother Father has both and that's a beautiful thing! Please don't judge people's opinions so quickly-we all interpret music, art, life in our own way. That's the beauty of it! This song can have 10,000 different meanings to 10,000 different listeners. I took away from this song that we are all searching for answers and we should stop looking to God or some mysterious perfect being out there, rather rely on ourselves!
It's "(...) so full of sad, sad (here the next strophe of the song begins) mother, father, please explain to me (...)", not something with sad, sad motherfuckers.
...at least that might be where I think you could've misunderstood something. Anyway, an advice: Check the lyrics (Google is always useful for that) before being dead sure that you've got the lyrics correctly.
Or maybe you just wanted to troll a little, who knows.
Sexy? Man wailing about the suffering in life, and how people just talk about it but never do anything that makes a difference. A plea for people to take up the staff instead of waiting for God to take care of it. Again, sexy? That's warped.
Won't say I'm a huge fan of this song, but in some strange way I'm rooting for a 2001 Live Trax someday primarily to get a SBD recording of this song.
The Great Canyon: River At Risk rendition of this song is better.
The Great Canyon: River at Risk, in my opinion, was as good as it was because of DMB and particularly, this song. I thought the whole project was phenomenal.
"Theres no god above and no hell below, oh its here with us"...is not really denying god, its saying that heavan and hell are here on earth and not separate realitys...and even if he is denying god, he justifies it pretty well in this song.
Then how do you explain his "Christmas Song"? In that tune, he pretty much tells the story of Jesus Christ. "Father up above, why in all this hatred do you fill me up with love, love, love?"
Songs have two sounds. Words sound out your feeling and the sound of the music also express your feeling. If someone is saying this song is sexy, it doesn't necessarily mean the lyrics are sexy but maybe the sound of the music is. Take the lyrics out of the song, and the music is sexy all on its own-
like "busted suff" for example... but they're best work is done on live shows, like "piedmont park", or "live trax 10" (wich by the way was recorded in Lisbon, my hometown.. The best concert i have ever seen!)
Anyway, just wanted to give you guys some sugestions...! Cheers!
sorry to disapoint you guys, but this is kind of a weak song... i mean, i'm a great DMB fan, and, knowing they're work, it's impossible for me to like something like this. you should try hearing stuff from they're previous albums: "crash", "before these crowded streets"; and my personal favorite, "Under the table and dremaing". Everyday is not that bad - it has a couple of good tunes - but it's way too diferent, too 'pop'. they also have some good stuff wich was launched after "everyday"
He makes alot of songs like this, Funny The Way It Is, Eh Hee, #41 all with similar themes of duality of the world
BlackSyndromeJoker 1 week ago
This man (Dave Matthews) Doesn't need and album that says "Greatest hits" because all his song are greatest hits
xEd3n 8 months ago
@xEd3n Totally so.
banszkiviktoria 5 months ago
This man (Dave Matthews) Doesn't need and album that says "Greatest hits" because all his song are greatest hits
xEd3n 8 months ago
Song gives me goosebumps every time I hear it..
thetallestcanuck 1 year ago 3
One of the worst guitar solos I've heard. Carlos Santana's usual "cut and paste" jobs.
Dozens of better suited guitarists who could've done the song justice...De Lucia, McLaughlin, Knopfler, Derek Trucks, Neal Schon....
oa 1 year ago
@oa Then go listen to your crappy excuse for music instead of this REAL music.
TheSerpant1483 1 year ago
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Harelgur 1 year ago
Mother Father please explain to me..........
Subject: Hey! Forgiver a reflector
Anagram: for the fragile recovery
RaleighDawlishRaynar 1 year ago
I have two Dave Matthews (born in South Africa wasn't he?) albums. Everyday and after a Space Between - another one.
On another topic - "Let the Right One in" film became - Let ME In - in the English version? lol Nice vetting everyone - everyday!
RaleighDawlishRaynar 1 year ago
what kind of other songs are like this? i really like the style :)
riceboy287 1 year ago
@riceboy287
funny the way it is -dmb
w22m3k 1 year ago
Folks who upload audio with a few pictures make it so much harder to find the genuine vidio clips. The best place for stuff like this is your C drive.
MercatorProjections 1 year ago
Favorite Matthews song ever written.
Maninamask726 1 year ago 2
Love this song. So deeply sensational.
SueZens 1 year ago 2
Wow. I haven't heard this in years. What a cool song. Thx. =0]
andibabs 1 year ago
Wow. I'd forgotten about this little gem. Thx. =0]
andibabs 1 year ago
oh....my...God
holy shit....
how fucking awesome...
onehourago 1 year ago
I cant FUCKING BELIEVE how UNDERRATED this song is... i mean seriously, the emotions and passion they put into this song is just beyond belief!!!!!!
DmB4LiFe420eL 1 year ago 4
I heard this song, I mean really heard it, for the first time a few hours ago. I was instantly taken to it.
Seiyanashi 1 year ago
haceme un pete,haceme un pete,porque esta noche quiero gozar,
armandodea1 1 year ago
If you add Santana to this song, there would be no reason for any other music, the perfect song would already exist.
Epicsaursus 1 year ago 2
@Epicsaursus degenerado
armandodea1 1 year ago
@Epicsaursus Santana IS in this song. =D
lindberg711 1 year ago
@Epicsaursus your comment hit me in the gut as absolutely true.
VALlewellyn 1 year ago
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@Epicsaursus your comment hit me in the gut as absolutely true.
VALlewellyn 1 year ago
Such a well written song.
Please Mother/Father please explain to me how............
northerndisclosure 1 year ago
Such an amazing song.
lolimjewish 1 year ago
There's no God above
And no hell below
Oh, it's here with us
It's up to us
To keep afloat
adamgrosskopf 1 year ago 2
Heard this song on Warren Miller's Storm. Four years later, I finally found it. Love it!
AEKNeaIonia 1 year ago 2
Mother, Father do you know
why one mans belly OVERFLOWS
another sleeps in HUNGERS bed.
DmB4LiFe420eL 2 years ago 25
@DmB4LiFe420eL Oh, we`d trade our world for a piece of bread
adamgrosskopf 2 years ago
I heard this song randomly in an English class a few years ago. Thank god I did cause it got me into Dave
beatlesfan2592 2 years ago 7
Im a huge DmB fan but never cared too much for this song.........my cousin be playing it off the hook, and now im addicted to it!!!! Dave your a genius in many ways
adamgrosskopf 2 years ago 7
Great song
shan4short 2 years ago 5
I love this song. Its such impressive insight and skillful wording of an observation on out world focused on tangible things and selfishness. Dave is an amazing song writer.
vanfitzgerald 2 years ago 5
i miss my mother and father. they go to london. :( . july 1,2010 they will go home.
undertakerrulez321 2 years ago 2
Does anyone think it sounds a little like Sting? I don't know why it reminds me of a Sting song.
justcallmenewman2 2 years ago
i see what you mean. the melody and rhythm of the vocal is similar.
RevoShaggy 2 years ago
the album everyday sounds like them but their other albums have no similarties
buffalorapids 2 years ago
i thought this was gona be journey cover haha
742512345689 2 years ago
Wow... seems a few people here have lost their perspective on things. This is an absolutely beautiful song and you are highly disrespecting it by acting immature and posting all of this negative energy. Dave is all about the music... if you can't respect that, then don't say anything at all.
It's that simple.
JerseyGirlDMB 2 years ago 13
beautiful song
junkevin 2 years ago 4
I saw a lot of comments here, but I really know that the shame is theres not a video(clip) of this really good song.
Cya all you guys!
DMB4E
JudashX 2 years ago 2
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His voice sounds like Anthony Kieds of Red Hot Chili Peppers
MadMudProductions 2 years ago
no.
tubros7 2 years ago
yes
MadMudProductions 2 years ago
wow.. do you even listen to either band much? i wouldnt say anything if there was any kind of resemblance but... just... i dont know where ur comin from on that one dude. im not trying to be a jerk or anything.
ricocastro1 2 years ago
A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!
janofreak 2 years ago 3
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You know what's funny?
If you say MotherFATHER! really loud like one word.
Prefereably in front of someone else.
degree7 2 years ago
your an idiot dude...
adamgrosskopf 2 years ago
Because I know the difference between "your" and "you're"?
solidstatemind 2 years ago
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Fine You are a fucking idiot...grammar good enough for you?
adamgrosskopf 2 years ago
Sure, adam bighead. If you have to belittle other people who happen to disagree with you, sure. that's cool. Hopefully, you realize that you're just making yourself look like a tool.
solidstatemind 2 years ago
I think ya'll need to remember that unless the lyrics are printed on the dust jacket, or on the net as being from the band, it's all just conjecture. For example:
"we're taken the water" doesn't make sense to me, but
"we're taking on water" does, when you combine it with the lyric "It's up to us to keep afloat"
Similarly:
"Come on out you" seems wrong, it would make more sense as
"Comin On At Ya"
and "Let the blue planet" is just stupid. Try "Little Blue Planet" instead.
solidstatemind 2 years ago
my cd messed up this track so i thought id ought to listen here and... 'sniff' im missing this song really bad!
JustMeProduction 2 years ago
This track was great on Warren Millers ski movie STORM
5 stars from me
2PLANKSKIER 2 years ago
haha yes that was great.
Muratarh 2 years ago
Awesome song! I love a song either due to the song writing or the beat. Mother Father has both and that's a beautiful thing! Please don't judge people's opinions so quickly-we all interpret music, art, life in our own way. That's the beauty of it! This song can have 10,000 different meanings to 10,000 different listeners. I took away from this song that we are all searching for answers and we should stop looking to God or some mysterious perfect being out there, rather rely on ourselves!
cecilcooperrocks 2 years ago 6
wow finally someone with there own opinion i deffinateley agree with ya
soubithefirst 2 years ago
But, what if we, ourselves, are God?... Beautifully said BTW...
janarosem 2 years ago
You need to calm down. Just enjoy the song.
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Love this more and more everytime I hear it. They have the official ringtone at DownloadEveryTone. com I just got it
avilalimcv 2 years ago
Do you not understand English?
There is no sexuality, explicit or implicit, in this song, music or lyrics. Perhaps you hear filth because you have filth in your head.
spongebobnik 2 years ago
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areallycleverone 3 years ago
It's "(...) so full of sad, sad (here the next strophe of the song begins) mother, father, please explain to me (...)", not something with sad, sad motherfuckers.
...at least that might be where I think you could've misunderstood something. Anyway, an advice: Check the lyrics (Google is always useful for that) before being dead sure that you've got the lyrics correctly.
Or maybe you just wanted to troll a little, who knows.
ryrxlglynx 2 years ago
i know. i believe you failed to realize that those lyrics were implied. i know the actual lyrics.
areallycleverone 2 years ago
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areallycleverone 3 years ago
w/e as long as it sounds good, i like
ooobarracuda38 3 years ago 2
Sexy? Man wailing about the suffering in life, and how people just talk about it but never do anything that makes a difference. A plea for people to take up the staff instead of waiting for God to take care of it. Again, sexy? That's warped.
martha113 3 years ago 3
Won't say I'm a huge fan of this song, but in some strange way I'm rooting for a 2001 Live Trax someday primarily to get a SBD recording of this song.
The Great Canyon: River At Risk rendition of this song is better.
RNSSR 3 years ago
The Great Canyon: River at Risk, in my opinion, was as good as it was because of DMB and particularly, this song. I thought the whole project was phenomenal.
Mertrisse 3 years ago
The best song on Everyday IMHO.
smagnolia 3 years ago
Dave Matthews Rocks. Luv this song. GO DAVE
silverbelief 3 years ago
maybe sexy only = good
and people should take things less gutter-mindedly =]
Cowloover 3 years ago
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The reason why i dont like dave matthews that much, is cause he denys god alot
BUT THIS SONG ROX!
SannyForbiddenFlirts 3 years ago
"Theres no god above and no hell below, oh its here with us"...is not really denying god, its saying that heavan and hell are here on earth and not separate realitys...and even if he is denying god, he justifies it pretty well in this song.
ashman9729 3 years ago 21
why should it matter what he believes religiously?
you should judge music by the music, not the artist.
burningfalcon4992 3 years ago 6
maybe YOU deny god a lot!!!
juuust ... kidding u_u
indeed this song is "sexy"
hmm and really steamy... like a bubble bath..
O_O
yah hmmm eyeeeee should stop now u_u
Cowloover 3 years ago
Then how do you explain his "Christmas Song"? In that tune, he pretty much tells the story of Jesus Christ. "Father up above, why in all this hatred do you fill me up with love, love, love?"
shan4short 3 years ago 4
cool song "sexy" really doesnt describe it like people say but cool never the less
pizzapie124 3 years ago
Songs have two sounds. Words sound out your feeling and the sound of the music also express your feeling. If someone is saying this song is sexy, it doesn't necessarily mean the lyrics are sexy but maybe the sound of the music is. Take the lyrics out of the song, and the music is sexy all on its own-
doucheku 3 years ago 3
good song.
sorry but isnt sexy
maconha1 3 years ago
like "busted suff" for example... but they're best work is done on live shows, like "piedmont park", or "live trax 10" (wich by the way was recorded in Lisbon, my hometown.. The best concert i have ever seen!)
Anyway, just wanted to give you guys some sugestions...! Cheers!
JoaoAntunes13 3 years ago
sorry to disapoint you guys, but this is kind of a weak song... i mean, i'm a great DMB fan, and, knowing they're work, it's impossible for me to like something like this. you should try hearing stuff from they're previous albums: "crash", "before these crowded streets"; and my personal favorite, "Under the table and dremaing". Everyday is not that bad - it has a couple of good tunes - but it's way too diferent, too 'pop'. they also have some good stuff wich was launched after "everyday"
JoaoAntunes13 3 years ago
gotta love it :)
FrostGirl22 4 years ago
This is such a sexy song
JonnyCosMo 4 years ago 2
I am not sure if people voted this thumbs down because they hate this song or if the word 'sexy' should not be used for it.
Lyrics:
"Mother, father please explain to me
How a man who rocks his child to sleep
Pulls the trigger on his brother's heart
He digs a hole right to the middle of this storm of hatred"
It is asking why the world can be such a beautiful place on the outside, but on the inside is terrible and made of hatred and horror.
Sexy isn't the proper word. I do like it
artistichate 3 years ago 2