Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me Lyrics Meaning

Why does everything always have to be about sex? It seems to me everybody is focusing on the lines containing sexual innuendo rather than on the first part of the song, and so losing the meaning. Granted, only Dave will really know what he meant by this song, but there are more ways to interpret

Why does everything always have to be about sex? It seems to me everybody is focusing on the lines containing sexual innuendo rather than on the first part of the song, and so losing the meaning. Granted, only Dave will really know what he meant by this song, but there are more ways to interpret it.

Read the lyrics carefully, like reading a poem, and it suggests that this a girl he's know before, gone out with her, and broken up. He now longs to have her back.

The "Hike up your skirt" lines could be, on a deeper level, interpreted as "Show me something you've never shown anyone else" if you look at it metaphorically. The "little more" bit indicates that it's being done slowly. So, he asks her to slowly reveal more of herself to him, that is, to become closer not only physically, but in knowing each other as well. His use of the word "the" in that first line suggests that she is his world, or to show it to him as she sees it. Intimacy is, after all, not a sexual thing, but how well you know someone.

The "Oh I watch you there..." bit has always struck me as very sad. One, it seems they are seperated, as another person has said, by that window (again, suggesting that they once were together), and that two, he knows her well (he says she wears nothing, yet wears it well, suggesting that there is pain within her that no one else knows about, but he sees it, and doesn't think it detracts from her). The use of the words "tied up and twisted" again suggests pain of some sort (maybe a metaphor for their relationship? Tide together but twisted?), and that he'd rather be with her than without her. In that context "Crash into me" is not sexual, but a metaphor for that broken relationshup and how they've hurt each other in the past, and his dream is that they get back together, even though more pain is inherent in that dream.

Anyway, that's my literature studies side coming out. I think this song has many layers, from just the purely sexual to the deeply emotional. It even has a rhyme scheme, and if it is written like a poem, then there are definitely many layers. It reminds me of Grey Street in that way, a song more about pain than pleasure.

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