Dave Matthews Band: Satellite Meaning

Song Released: 1995

Satellite Lyrics

Satellite in my eyes
Like a diamond in the sky
How I wonder.
Satellite strung from the moon
And the world your balloon
Peeping tom for the mother station
Winter’s cold spring erases
And the calm away by the storm is chasing
Everything...

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   #1 top rated interpretation:
   anonymous

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   Sep 5th 2006 !⃝

   The song is about how everyone is mesmerized by the technology in the world. Watch the music video, the guy is sitting in this trailer watching 25 or so televisions, and it's all just absolute crap that he's watching. Outside, there is a girl blowing bubbles and enjoying life out in the beautiful woods where leaves are falling. At the end, he turns the tvs off, and goes outside to the girl in the woods where he belongs. We're not meant to be cooped up watching tv all day, we're meant to be outside enjoying the beauty of the world, while it's still here.

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   anonymous

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   Apr 18th 2005 !⃝

   Dave Matthews said in an interview that this song came to be during a jam session with the band. They got the music going, and as a placeholder, Dave started singing about satellites, and the rest is history.
   
   Definitely one of their best.
3. anonymous

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   Mar 29th 2023 !⃝

   It’s about the beauty of nature all around us, the seasons changing, time escaping…all the while, humans waste their time chasing the fake world through technological escapism.
   It’s a Poetically profound song, that comes across as a simple tune about satellites.
   
4. Preach

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   Aug 20th 2022 !⃝

   I think the interpretations of this song should be observed by psychologists. People hear the strangest things no matter how straightforward the speaker or his writings might be. The name if tye song is Satellite! He sings about the uses of satellites. Satellites enable people and governments to spy on each other; to publish news through Internet, which includes publishing what was supposed to be secret; to track and predict the weather patterns; to watch TV, listen to the radio, talk on your cellphone. Year by year, there are always newer ways of using the satellites, updated technology and new gadgets, while many ways of using the satellites become obsolete. There are limitless uses for satellites so that he likens his fascination and curiosity of them to the wonderment a person might have when gazing and wondering about the stars, as in: "twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are." He literally says this very straightforwardly in the song. How do you get UFOs and a woman in the woods out of those lyrics? The things we hear when a person speaks should be studied by psychologists worldwide. It would be a very interesting study.
5. anonymous

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   Jun 26th 2021 !⃝

   I think Matthews was hinting and happily hissing at the truth that many humans think they own the world through the advancement of technology. But, as many others have so indicated, we can't even take the time to enjoy a simple Autumn day, let alone predict the weather, or rule the world.
6. anonymous

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   Nov 2nd 2020 !⃝

   It came from In the Sunlight instead of satellite I have a recording of it same tune almost same lyrics.
7. anonymous

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   Oct 2nd 2020 !⃝

   I’ve read many above interpretations and I’m honestly very surprised. I thought this song was clearly about a UFO. But I guess everyone has their own interpretation-
   
   
   “Satellite, headlines read
   Someone's secrets you've seen
   Eyes and ears have been
   Satellite dish in my yard
   Tell me more, tell me more
   Who's the king of your satellite castle?“
8. anonymous

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   May 31st 2019 !⃝

   Dave believes in flat earth.
9. anonymous

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   Apr 28th 2018 !⃝

   Fascinated by so many guesses at what this song eludes to ! After reading the interpretations of many ::: reading the lyrics over n over I’m going to stick with what I know ...... You can’t know the meaning of this song if you rely on our five senses ! It’s not available ....... cherish Dave Mattees and those among us who offer you passage here to the King of the Mother Station
10. anonymous

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    Mar 10th 2017 !⃝

    Yeah I see this song as a thinly veiled outcry against invasive government. With their satellite eyes they see everyone and everything, but to little benefit as, we can't even accurately predict the weather.
11. anonymous

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    Jul 22nd 2014 !⃝

    Aliens yo.
12. anonymous

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    Jun 20th 2014 !⃝

    Well see, the thing is, Satellite Developed from another song from Dave's early career, with small lyrical changes called After Her, which seems to be generally more about love, which is different in many ways to what others have said. Look it up on youtube. Truth be told I might even like it better anyway.
13. anonymous

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    Apr 24th 2013 !⃝

    this has to do with all the technology eveyone is into like phones and stuff people who are like this are dumb and need to get a life go outside and bring some dirt on your clothes when you go home find the fun and creativity in the world
14. anonymous

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    Jan 28th 2011 !⃝

    I believe it's sort of a parody...the world has the technology advanced enough to decipher what some spy is having for lunch in some obscure corner of Yemen, but can't seem to get accurate weather forecasts.
    But, that's my opinion.
15. annalisebabe

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    May 5th 2008 !⃝

    I think this song has more to do about politics than it does technology. The Prague Spring, The Cold War, and Soviet Satellite states. There was constant tension between leaders trying to gain and keep power in the Communist countries.
16. anonymous

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    Dec 26th 2007 !⃝

    I don't actually know what this song really means, and for those who think it's only about satellites, hope they are wrong because it's such a beautiful song... I agree with the one who said it's about all of us not enjoying life. I also liked the idea that said that humans are trying to control things that we just aren't able to.
17. anonymous

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    Mar 14th 2007 !⃝

    This song could also be about how we as humans try to predict/change things beyond our control. For example, "I laugh about this weatherman's satellite eyes" could mean he laughs at those like the weatherman who try to predict things beyond our control (the weather).

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