THE DREAMING TREE
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
SONGWRITERS: DAVID JOHN MATTHEWS & STEFAN K.
LESSARD
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: BEFORE THESE CROWDED STREETS
LABEL: RCA RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK ROCK
YEAR:1998
Dave Matthews Band(also known by the initials
DMB) is an American rock band formed in Charlottesville,
Virginia, in 1991. The band's founding members were
singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews,
bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer
and backing vocalist Carter Beauford,
violinist and backing vocalist Boyd Tinsley,
and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. As of 2022, Matthews, Lessard,
and Beauford are the only remaining founding members still performing with the
band.
Dave Matthews Band's 1994 major label debut
album, Under the
Table and Dreaming, was certified platinum six
times. As of 2018, the band had sold more than 25 million concert tickets and a
combined total of 38 million CDs and DVDs. Their 2018 album, Come Tomorrow,
debuted at Nº 1 on the Billboard 200, making
DMB the first band to have seven consecutive studio albums debut at the peak.
The band won the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for
"So Much to Say".
A jam band,
Dave Matthews Band is renowned for its live shows. The band is known for playing
songs differently each performance; this practice has become a staple of their
live shows since the early 1990s.
Before These Crowded Streets is the third
studio album by Dave Matthews Band,
released on April 28, 1998. It was the last official album by the group to be
produced by longtime producer Steve Lillywhite until
2012's Away from the World and their first album recorded at The Plant
Recording Studios in Sausalito,
California. The album title is taken from
the lyrics of the song "The Dreaming Tree." It debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 charts after selling 421,000 units in its first week of release
knocking the Titanic soundtrack from the top spot after a run of 16 consecutive weeks at #1.
Standing here
The old man said to me
Long before these crowded streets
Here stood my dreaming tree
Below it he would sit
For hours at a time
Now progress takes away
What forever took to find
And now he's falling hard
He feels the falling dark
How he longs to be
Beneath his dreaming tree
Conquered fear to climb
A moment froze in time
When the girl who first he kissed
Promised him she'd be his
Remembered mother's words
There beneath the tree
No matter what the world
You'll always be my baby
Mommy come quick
The dreaming tree has died
The air is growing thick
A fear he cannot hide
The dreaming tree has died
Oh
Have you no pity
This thing I do
I do not deny it
All through this smile
As crooked as danger
I do not deny
I know in my mind
I would leave you now
If I had the strength to
I would leave you up
To your own devices
Will you not talk
Can you take pity
I don't ask much
But won't you speak
Please
From the start
She knew she had it made
Easy up 'til then
For sure she'd make the grade
Adorers came in hordes
To lay down in her wake
She gave it all she had
But treasures slowly fade
Now she's falling hard
She feels the fall of dark
How did this fall apart
She drinks to fill it up
A smile of sweetest flowers
Wilted so and soured
Black tears stain the cheeks
That once were so admired
She thinks when she was small
There on her father's knee
How he had promised her
You'll always be my baby
Daddy come quick
The dreaming tree has died
I can't find my way home
There is no place to hide
The dreaming tree has died
Oh
If I had the strength to
I would leave you up
To your own devices
Will you not talk
Can you take pity
I don't ask much
But won't you speak
Please
Take me back
Take me back
Take me back
Take me back
Take me back
Take me back
Take me back
Save me please.
Postagens
