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14 Days of DMB - Countdown to West Palm - "Grey Street" 5.9.01

Posted on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 08:53PM by Registered CommenterC. Brooks Kurtz Bookmark and Share

Sorry for the "Whereabouts Unknown" status. Since I have the date, I could go onto Warhouse or Ants Marching and find it easily, but why ruin the fun? I note that among the thousands of 'from the crowd' videos out there, this is the best one I've found for any song. The shooter is in the crowd, yet manages to keep the camera steady while still managing to capture the fun.

"Grey Street" is one of many oxymornic lyrics-to-music songs - it's among the most upbeat of DMB songs, yet is a downer if taken to heart. Lyrically, it is the best song Matthews has penned (he writes all the band's songs). Infused with luscious imagery, apt metaphor and [consulting the English Major Guidebook to Poetic Criticism] even-keyed romanticism, the lyrics are evocative, reminicient of Kristoferson and Croce, a song that is straightforward, unpretentious and imaginatively complex.

The song is about depression, a theme I get. The song details a girl who can see all the brilliant colors life has to offer, yet is incapable of seeing each color on its own - she mixes them all together, hence the gray, not too cryptically coined in the line "but all the colors mixed together/are gray..."

"Grey Street" rocks. Check it...

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