- published: 13 Sep 2009
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Dave Matthews Band, abbreviated DMB, is an American rock band that was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991. Lyrical themes focus on topics ranging from love, sex, the enjoyment and appreciation of life, and marijuana use to ending racism, and political and anti-war statements. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Boyd Tinsley was added to the band as a violinist soon after the band was formed. Moore died suddenly in August 2008 due to complications from an ATV accident. Grammy Award-winner Jeff Coffin, of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, has since filled Moore's spot as the band's saxophonist. Rashawn Ross and Tim Reynolds have also become full-time touring members of the band. As of 2010, Dave Matthews Band has approximate sales between 30 and 40 million copies worldwide.
The band is known for their annual summer-long tours of the US and Europe, featuring lengthy improvisational renditions of their songs, accompanied by an elaborate video and lighting show. This portion of the tour has become a stamp of DMB and has grown with the band since Fenton Williams began in the early 1990s. After twenty consecutive years of touring the band announced that it is going to take the summer of 2011 off. The band's most recent album, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King (the first since Moore's death) debuted at number one on Billboard 200, giving the band their fifth consecutive number one debut, making them the second band behind Metallica to do so.
I hear more than I'd like to
So I boil my head in a sense of humor
Laugh at what I cannot change
And I throw it all on the pyre again
Go then and do this, I'd do it for you
When all that I want is so badly to be by myself again
It's going to drive me right out of my brain
Drive in, drive out, I'm leaving
Drive in, drive out, I'll come back again
Drive in, drive out, I'm leaving
Drive in, drive out
I don't care if we all turn to waste
So when I beg you, avoid me
?Cause I smell of dirt, hungry hungry boy
But you won't leave me all alone
The boy won't go
Sooner or later we're gone
Sooner or later I'm gone because, because
Sooner or later we're done
Sooner away
Ooh, my head is pounding now
God has all but left me behind
Not a note of worry
I'm going to drive in and drive out again
Drive in, drive out, I'm leaving
Drive in, drive out, I'll come
Drive in, drive out, I'm leaving
Drive in, drive out
Here oh, I'm over this arrangement around here
Oh emptiness sounded so good
I want to drive you right into my world
Drive in, drive out, I'm leaving
Drive in, drive out, I'll come
Drive in, drive out, I'm leaving