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Dave Matthews isn’t afraid to go biblical in his songwriting, and it being the holidays, I thought it’d be a nice time to take a deeper look at the DMB track “Christmas Song”. Although the track is not exactly your typical holiday song, I love listening to “Christmas Song” around December 25th. The song begins with the miracle of Jesus’s birth -”The Wiseman came, three made their way/To shower him with love/While he lay in the hay”, traces the savior’s formative years - “Not very much of his childhood was known/Kept his mother Mary worried/Always out on his own”, his arrest “By the authorities less informed than he”, his death “When Jesus Christ was nailed to the tree/said ‘o Daddio, I can see now how it will all be”, and the lingering questions we are left with “Father up above, why in all this anger do you fill/Me up with love, love, love”. The song has a very elemental feel to it and really cuts to the heart of the what the Christian holiday of Christmas is based around. One of the best tracks off of Remember Two Things.

On the latest Dave Matthews Band album, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, is appears that Dave is a firm believer that every coin has two sides. The first single from the album “Why I Am” is a great example of irony in DMB’s songwriting. A irresistible saxophone riff drives the song with some heavy electric guitar work makes the track jump out of the speaker and grab your attention. The character of the GrooGrux King, which is a reference to recently deceased band member Leroi Moore, appears to be Cajun monarch of Mardi Gras whom the speaker in the song celebrates life with. The opening lines of the song demonstrate man’s capacity to do both amazing and terrible things: I grew from monkey into man/Then I crushed 15 million with the wave of my hand. The point I gather from the song is to truly enjoy the good parts of the lives we have because the world is such an imperfect place.