Dave Matthews Band The Lillywhite Sessions (the lost album of 2000....story & lyrics below) 1. Busted Stuff 4:05 2. Grey Street 5:53 3. Diggin' A Ditch 4:23 4. Sweet Up And Down 4:41 5. JTR 5:36 6. Big Eyed Fish 5:16 7. Grace is Gone 5:12 8. Captain 5:27 9. Bartender 10:09 10. Monkey Man 7:21 11. Kit Kat Jam 5:33 12. Raven 6:24 =================================================== The birth, death and rebirth of a DMB album The odd saga of the Dave Matthews Band's lost album is the most compelling mini-drama of the Napster age. Recorded during the summer of 2000 in DMB's hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia with their longtime producer Steve Lillywhite, the sessions were aborted, and Matthews flew out to Los Angeles to finish the album with producer Glen Ballard. Instead of merely continuing the process Lillywhite had begun, Matthews and Ballard began writing new songs together, songs that so inspired Matthews that he decided to shelve the original tracks he had brought with him. The new songs would become DMB's blockbuster 2001 release Everyday. (Only one song -- "#36," which would be lyrically reworked into Everyday's title track -- was gleaned from the earlier sessions.) LYRICS Busted Stuff Haha Look at that girl Woman... Not enough Never too much The woman look just like love Rolling stone Gathers no moss But leave a trail of Busted Stuff I know she's gonna leave My broken heart behind her I take what she's giving up I know she's gonna leave This broken man behind her I take what she's giving up Sweet sugar lips Push from the hips Woman looks just like love Without a care She floats above She got me down here looking up I know she's gonna leave My broken heart behind her I take what she's giving up I know she's gonna leave My broken heart behind Yeah, Yeah... She me one She my one She my one Little love When she move She move so cool She make me feel just like a fool But inside Where the devil hides Women looks just like love I know she's gonna leave My broken heart behind I take what she's giving up, oh I know she's gonna leave My broken heart behind her now I get what she's giving up, oh I know she's gonna leave Her broken man behind Hey, yeah... She my one She my one She the one for me Yeah... I know she's gonna leave My broken heart behind Yeah, yeah... She my one... Grey Street Look at how she listens She says nothing of what she thinks Just listens to abuses And by the kitchen sink... She thinks, "Hey! Why do I live to this? I'm latest on life How did it end like this?" Oh, then the wrongs in her heart fall And she feels the weight in lies And the colors mix together to grey Grey Street Begging now the difference She prays to God most everynight Although she swears He doesn't listen There's hope in her that He just might She said, "I Pray!" "But they fall on deaf ears I'm supposed to take it all on myself To get out of this place." But soon the wrongs in her heart fall And then she rode the light in Oh, the pain now seems it's over And again she sees the pain And then the colors mix together to grey On Grey Street It's all colored in again Take what you can from your dreams Make it real as anything Takes the work out of the courage She said, "Please!" "There's someone sleeping outside my door I live on the corner of Grey Street And the end of the world." And the wrong in her whole plan I as hopeless as the day she came And the man she calls her father Ignores her and ignores her pain Oh, when I walk out in the morning In all this sunlight And all the colors mix together to grey On Grey Street On Grey Street It's Grey Street, you go So, if you don't see your Heaven Don't convince yourself you're done Just 'cause the things around you seem heavy Doesn't mean you can give up this ground When you hold me down in the heart now Move out and, oh, the wait is over Oh, might notice of your worry One another ... (?) And the colors mix together to grey On Grey Street On Grey Street To grey... Yeah, yeah... Digging a Ditch Unto your dreaming When you're alone Unplug the TV Turn off the 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 That hold heavy on my heart 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 Cause I'm diggin a ditch where madness gives Digging a ditch where silence lives in here 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 die Where all these habits That hold heavy on my heart will die 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 again I'm digging a ditch where silence lives Where all these troubles that weight down on me will rise 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 Sweet Up and Down Big dog bites the bone Life's too short to take all this Not true when what's more: Life's too short to mind Just keep on with The Sweet Up and Down Unturning her cheek Inside-out, her neat little pose Dirty, little girl Climbs out of the hole in her own In this Sweet up and Down I believe in love But believe it's my heart that keeps turning me down I believe in love I think it's just fine Oh, the Sweet up and Down Big pig turns to me Pig he needs to eat like us all Not far from the beast Man sits down to feast on this part Of the Sweet up and down I believe in love And believe it's my heart that keeps turning me down I believe in love I think it's just fine On the Sweet up and Down BT... Up and down, inside out Outside in some you lose some You win for us all Up and down we go Bad times choke us all once or twice On this Sweet up and Down I believe in love But think nothing about it when you're not around I believe in love I think you're just fine On the Sweet up and Down I believe in love But believe in my heart that keeps turning me down I believe in love I think you're just fine On the Sweet up and Down... JTR I drink you up For every drop of you is sacred Every drop I drink you up You fill my cup The way you laugh Eyes of a child Lean on me, you fill me up You make me love So unconditionally generous To me you give me love And break my heart Slip, you fall, I pick you up and dust you off You break my heart Rain, rain, rain down on me Again and again Rain down on me Take all you want For what is mine is yours No better use is there for what I've got Take all you want And only hope can I, you won't deny Your love for me, my love No, don't cry, if it's too high I lift you up, we'll make it, make it When I was oh so tired You come along to wake me, wake me Time and time, again and again With a smile you save me child Oh, oh, oh... Rain, rain, rain down on me Again and again Rain down on me Look, we play our cards And I question by the grace of what We play our cards at all Come fill me up Oh, fill me love when I'm empty when I'm all dried up No, dont cry, if it's too high I lift you up, we'll make it, make it Oh, I was so so tired You come along to wake me, wake me Time and time, again and again With a smile you save me child Oh, oh, oh... Rain, rain, rain down on me Again and again Rain down on me Rain, rain, rain down on me... Big Eyed Fish Story of a man Who decided not to breath Turned red, purple, then blue Colorful indeed No matter how his friends begged Well, he would not concede And now he's dead You see, 'cause everybody knows You got to breathe But, oh God, Under the weight of life Things seem brighter on the other side... Lighter on the other side... Another one: See this monkey sitting in his tree One day, decided to climb down And run off to the city Look at him now Tired, and drunk And living in the street As good as dead You see, a monkey should know Stay up your tree But, oh God, Under the weight of life Things seem brighter on the other side Oh God, But under the weight of life Things seem much lighter on the other side No way... No way... No way... Out... Of here... Another one: A Big Eyed Fish Yeah, swimming in the sea Oh, how he dreamed He wants to be a bird Swooping, diving through the breeze One day He caught a big blue wave Up onto the beach And now he's dead You see, a fish's dream Should stay in the sea But, oh God, Under the weight of life Things seem brighter on the other side Oh God, But under the weight of life Things seem brighter on the other side No way... No way... No way... Out... Of Here... No way out of here... No way out of life... Grace is Gone Neon shines through smoky eyes tonight It’s 2 AM, I’m drunk again It’s heavy on my mind It’s heavy on my mind I could never love again So much as I love you Where you end where I begin Is like a river flowing through Take my heart, take my eyes 'Cause I'll need them no more If never again they’ll fall upon The one I so adore 'Scuse me please, one more drink Could you make it strong 'cause I don’t need to think She broke my heart My Grace is Gone Another drink and I’ll move on One drink to remember, and another to forget How could I ever dream to find a love like this again One drink to remember, and another to forget... Excuse me please, one more drink Would you make it strong 'Cause I don’t need to think She broke my heart My Grace is Gone Another drink and I’ll move on One more drink and ill move on... You think of things impossible Then the sun refuse to shine I woke with you beside me Your cold hand lay in mine 'Scuse me please, one more drink Could you make it strong 'Cause I don’t need to think She broke my heart My Grace is Gone Another drink and I’ll go... 'Scuse me please, one more drink Could you make it strong 'Cause I don’t need to think She broke my heart My Grace is Gone Another drink and I'll move on One more drink and I'll move on One more drink my Grace is Gone. Captain Crazy as I may Make my way through this world, oh It's for no one but me to say What direction I should turn in now 'Cause I am the captain of this ship Wanting eyes and kissing lips The same as it was And will remain until I'm done And gone Strange, but it seems There's mutiny brewing inside of me now I don't want your pity Just the promise that I'll be alright 'Cause I am the captain of this ship Curious hands and fingertips The same as it was And will be until I'm gone Oh, I know I'm a dreamer Still think it's strange I won't be long for here Oh, I know that I feel, oh Wait and go again Again... Oh, look, I'm buried Like a cancer eating away inside of me I don't want your pity Only the promise that I'll be okay now But I am the captain of this ship Curious hands and fingertips The same as it was before here Here, back After all Why should I be hypnotized By the promise of a long life? Why should I hold hope In tiny, tiny dribbles that glide by? Why should I lean everything upon ... I won't be here long... Oh, I know I'm a dreamer Still seems a truth I won't be long for here Oh, it's so, but I think I lay this On now your lips I'm drowning I am the Captain of ... Oh... But, I'll be okay after all. Bartender If I go Before I'm old Oh, brother of mine Please don't forget me if I go Bartender, please Fill my glass for me With the wine you gave Jesus that set him free After three days in the ground Oh, and if I die Before my time Oh, sweet sister of mine Please don't regret me if I die Bartender, please Fill my glass for me With the wine you gave Jesus that set him free After three days in the ground Bartender, please Fill my glass for me With the wine you gave Jesus that set him free After three days in the ground I'm on bended knees, I pray Bartender, please When I was young, I didn't think about it Now I can't get it out of my mind I'm on bended knees Father, please Oh, and if all this gold Should steal my soul away Oh, dear mother of mine Please redirect me if this gold... Bartender, you see The wine that's drinking me Came from the vine that strung Judas from the Devil's tree His roots deep, deep in the ground Bartender, you see The wine that's drinking me Came from the vine that strung Judas from the Devil's tree Its roots deep, deep in the ground Ground... I'm on bended knees Oh, Bartender, please I'm on bended knees Father, please When I was young, I didn't think about it Now I just want to run and hide I'm on bended knees Oh, Bartender, please Bartender, please... Monkey Man Great Monkey Man has gone the distance The lucky one's going to get it all Loving life now Living on top of Lucky ones always get it all Oh, I'm hungry Don't wanna die like a little dog Gonna take what I can get I'm the Monkey Man With the great, great monkey plan It's crazy, crazy, little man You've got yourself entangled Oh, love to lie to myself To say everything is fine now We got to keep it up Or fall behind I got to keep it up Or lose the edge we found there faster I'll build higher, still higher I dig deeper down 'til it's down in the ground It's found, used up and then thrown out Crazy, crazy little man What do you think you're doing here? Big, beautiful world just for us Good use we must put it to Any way I can think to use it up What will I tell my grandson's grandsons? I could weave a fairy tale On a great Bible-thumping scale When he stands empty hands On his empty land That's what happened here Great, great Monkey Man Where did you think grey was the color of this? You think I don't know quite what to say But I'm worried for myself in this I'm hungry Don't wanna die like a little dog Well, I eat what I can get From the Monkey Man Great, great monkey plan Crazy, crazy man You get yourself turned in a pickle Crazy, crazy Monkey Man Who is the one in the middle Take a walk Cross the ice Melts too quickly For us to reach the other side It's cold in here But the sun shines bright, oh It warms this up well Oh, the tide is rising higher Look, it's strange Floating by Looks just like ones that Flow out and ride, oh, I will Golden age These golden times Our golden days seem to have us Hypnotized or blind, well Kit Kat Jam Hey, golden girl, with your hair swinging down All of this love you have going round What will you do when the gold turns to grey? Have you thought now Well, what the hay, give us some Cover yourself with the safety of lies You'll find it's easier 'til you face dying Oh, sweetest smile in a confident come along All of this longing you will done Up and out, goes to your heart And you will make yourself higher up, little fool And love and go down and pay to go on We'll lie on water, and oh On the way back I slip on the ceiling Caught you just then, hands were in the cookie jar How can we share when you sneak up and go? I've no intention of losing by beard How they design and then we go again Oh God, them horses were racing And, oh, bring me down Could put Humpty Dumpty back together again Now the wall won't hold anyone I walk in the slide Wait and reach your lady This is the short one Short way to lay in Oh, let her leave my hand I've given up Whoa, how is too late now Oh, free, just... Were you lying? Raven (Thanks to Drew McIntosh for the transcription - edited by Pete Mocker) Rise and graze on this The future is a mess Oh, where you take this thing From us we give it in No longer yet, oh no Won't you got your thing I cheer then empty it from One over thing One over thing Count out the radiant life Won't you give in now Out of the reasons Let a light is run Stone and gate is lay Hope you got your lips Live up to your dreams and give Wonder you'll but then Dark and tossed away Breach all yourself On love is a gaze Gone and tossed away Leave the bane stick in and in Oh I'll lay here Don't give up your down, down, down We don't need all Heaven's all underground Can we leave all The lord knows it's dark, dark Rain is empty receeded I have to say it's nothing more than My point of view This pride rains for a girl She slides across the floor And looks good as an angel Watch, I want some more She's all needed to me Best thing I can come What's all been played with me The sweetest one of all The sweetest one of all Come on Raven give it up Won't you give the light up I'm to waiting Here like a (?) When I say this I mean all Won't you go with your head Live life till you don't need in it But don't give up on it All then tossed away Ah, don't you give up this little stray Gone, then tossed away Read, God is on the page Pray on word Have you say you get down, down, down Oh, we leave here We need more love round, around, around They won't let it go on, oh, man cower down Here no worry, to rest they say nothing more then I wouldn't do Can leave us love to die, no Would you give your love? Rise up, you Raven If you like to live it down on it Won't let you down here, would you got Raisins up, to spread around the place God got locked away No, don't place it in time We walk away Then rise up your wings Read the way out of the wars Oh, my lady Oh all, in all around and round, round I won't let you (?) Freedom, Freedom, Freedom, Freedom, Freedom Oh, I won't be this I'm here to say it's Nothing more than my point of view **********************************