Dave Matthews Band: Crash Into Me Meaning
Song Released: 1996
Crash Into Me Lyrics
You’ve got your chain
Tied to me tight tie me up again
Who’s got their claws
In you my friend
Into your heart I’ll beat again
Sweet like candy to my soul
Sweet you rock
And sweet you roll
Lost for you I’m so lost for...
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#1 top rated interpretation:Seriously? Not about sex? This song is all about sex. On VH1 storytellers, Dave plays this song directly after crush and says it is a song about love, but a different kind of love. Something along the lines of a crazy man's love song where the girl is changing and talking on the phone to her friend and there is a creeper who wants what he can't have just outside her window. Guess what?! Simple explanations work, especially when they come from the artist himself.
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#2 top rated interpretation:I think that this song is about how Dave or someone is in love. He clearly describes how she feels "Sweet, like candy to my soul. Sweet you rock, sweet you roll. Lost for you, I'm so lost for you." He falls in love very prematureley. Even before he really knows this girl. "If I've gone overboard
Then I'm begging you
to forgive me
In my haste "
He obviously hasn't addmited this love to this girl, as he says that he "watches through the window" but in reality he is in a fog, a mist as to how to tell this girl. I think this song could be about his old girlfriend Julia Grey who followed him to the U.S. from South Africa. He, I feel is expressing his love for her in this song. When he says hike up your skirt a little more and show your world to me, I think literally he is saying that he wants her to be his, completely his, which sex can signify. -
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#3 top rated interpretation: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. -
He said himself it’s about a stalker or peeping Tom watching a girl at night through her window.
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I always thought he was saying hike up your skirt little boy, so I wouldn't listen to it thinking this was a pedos song...
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All these interpretations are plausible and lovely…that’s the beauty of music and poetry. But I definitely think it’s a sexual song. Listen to the beginning tempo. Slow and sexy…and as the song progresses it gets faster, almost frantic as he’s crooning/moaning at the end. If I’m in the car listening to this sometimes I think I should pull over and smoke a cigarette, lol!
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It's BOUT FALLING IN LOVE AND MAKING LOVE. ( NOT JUST HAVING SEX ) HE WROTE IT FOR HIS WIFE WHEN THEY FIRST STARTED TO DATE. I THINK IT WAS CARTER TALKED ABOUT IT IN AN INTERVIEW
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You've got your ball, you got your chain
Tied to me tight, tie me up again
Who's got their claws in you my friend?
Into your heart I'll beat again
Sweet like candy to my soul
Sweet you rock, and sweet you roll
Lost for you, I'm so lost, for you
It is often used colloquially to refer to a female significant other who may inhibit the activities of the male in the relationship.In this song, however, the narrator is a peeping tom who is infatuated with the woman he’s peeping at. She’s got a ball and chain in the sense that he is trapped in his obsession for her; not that he’s complaining, anyway.
Oh, when you come
Crash into me
And I come into you
And I come into you
In a boy's dream, in a boy's dream
has been suggested that the track is about a peeping Tom, namely for this section. The singer wants a “boy’s dream,” something generally sexual, to come true. The pair “crash” into each other, sexually and mentally, and reach their peak. It is a combination of both a childhood idea of sex and a man’s idea of passion.
Touch your lips just so I know
In your eyes, love, it glows so
I'm bare boned, and crazy for you
A man who is crazy and in love with a girl he Is always wanting to have sex with
Hike up your skirt a little more
And show the world to me
Hike up your skirt a little more
And show your world to me
A boy's dream, in a boys dream
Oh I watch you there
Through the window
And I stare at you
You wear nothing but you
Wear it so well
Tied up and twisted
The way I'd like to be
For you, for me, come crash
Into me
Baby, come crash into me, yeah
Crash into me
Crash into me
[Outro]
Oh, you know
I'm king of the castle
You're my dirty rascal
Crash into me
Please crash into me baby
We both know
See the way, come crash into me
See the way you come rash into me
Crash into me
Oh no no no no hey
Oh no no no no hey, yeah
He wants to go over board with th sex in a boys dream -
It’s about a man and a woman who are in love and have sexual desire for each other. He feels her crash into him and he her and hike up your skirt and show your world to me is very sexual. That’s it.
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I agree completely, except that you say it much better. I felt that my sexual interpretation was only on the surface, and loved the deeper meanings, so when people make it so shallow I felt stupid, "Why can't I see it?". Now I feel OK, Thanks.
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Sex with succubus
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This song is about the first time having sex and about how it feels. Period!
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Woah, who wrote these songs? Maybe the songwriter had something to send across the air waves (or, ehm, radio waves)...who's the king of your satellite castle??
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this song is about when dave first meet his last girlfriend turned wife and she came to visit him when he was working. he was so depressed when she left that he wrote a song about.
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Dave has always made an eclectic approach to his songs, and this is definitely no exception.
Despite the fact the song may come off as sexual its meaning is basically from a voyeuristic idea. It is not about deep love, it is about a deep lust for a girl.
It is like a teenage boy who notices the girl next door keeps her window curtains open when she changes. It is not a malicious or dirty song, it is completely platonic, and lust driven song about a desire to have something you know you will never get. -
The song is about a true love that he lost and how head over heels in love the guy is for her. He only has memories about the girl and how attracted he was to her. "Come crash into me and I'll come into you" is come love me and I'll love you. Quite a sad song if think that you once had the love of your life who is now gone and all you have are memories or "a boy's dream" about her. It's an admittance to him growing up and not wanting just sex but love and a relationship.
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The "sweet you rock and sweet you roll" part is a reference to his wife who went to sweet briar college and he would come visit her and bring his guitar to play.
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Sex. In the video, two of the members appeared for a split second because they did not want to appear in this paticular video becasue of the lyrical meaning behind the song. Or so said VH1
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