What does Don't Drink The Water mean?

Dave Matthews Band: Don't Drink The Water Meaning

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Song Released: 1998


Don't Drink The Water Lyrics

Come out, come out, no use in hiding.
Come out, come out, can you not see
There’s no place here, what were you expecting?
No room for both, just room for me.
So you will lay your arms down,
Yes, I will call this home.
Away, away, you have...

  1. tamberineman
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    Feb 9th 2006 !⃝

    If you watched the Dave Matthews Band Storytellers you realize how often people overanalyze many of dave's songs. The interpretation about the indian thing was completely off base. It's actually about a camel cricket infestation dave had in his basement.

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
  2. anonymous
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    Feb 8th 2006 !⃝

    I'm sure that most people know this already, but Don't Drink the Water is about the native americans and how they were killed off and there land was stolen by colonial americans.

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