Don’t Drink the Water by Dave Matthews Band (Ft. Alanis Morissette & Béla Fleck)
Don’t Drink the Water by Dave Matthews Band (Ft. Alanis Morissette & Béla Fleck)

Don’t Drink the Water

Dave Matthews Band & Béla Fleck & Alanis Morissette * Track #4 On Before These Crowded Streets

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Don’t Drink the Water by Dave Matthews Band (Ft. Alanis Morissette & Béla Fleck)

Release Date
Tue Apr 28 1998
Performed by
Dave Matthews BandBéla Fleck & Alanis Morissette
Produced by
Steve Lillywhite
Writed by
Dave Matthews
About

This song is the first single to be released off the Dave Matthews Band album Before These Crowded Streets.

Its basic meaning lies in the story of the Europeans discovering the Americas and taking the lands with complete disregard for those who lived there from the beginning, the Native Americans....

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Don’t Drink the Water Lyrics

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 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
Don't drink the water
There's blood in the water
Don't drink the water

Don’t Drink the Water Q&A

Who wrote Don’t Drink the Water's ?

Don’t Drink the Water was written by Dave Matthews.

Who produced Don’t Drink the Water's ?

Don’t Drink the Water was produced by Steve Lillywhite.

When did Dave Matthews Band release Don’t Drink the Water?

Dave Matthews Band released Don’t Drink the Water on Tue Apr 28 1998.

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