.. If you can find 3 minutes in your day to be totally grounded and reminded of WHAT THE HECK this is all about…
Read this:
This is a transcript of a live performance of one of my favorite songs ever.  It is Dave Matthews band and the song is amazing even without the live intro that he created on the spot –  I highly recommend you find a copy of the song to listen to at some point today – but most versions will not have this intro.  The song itself is enough – but the song combined with the intro is what kicks the hell out of me.  FYI.  
Read it… remember your roots and be uplifted because of the way life works.  This is just a reminder that the world we see is not as it is meant to be.  Things have fallen – and fallen far.  This is a way different world than we were meant to have, at least that is what I believe.  And Dave… well… he believes that too.  I mean it.
(this intro is being sang/talked through by dave with limited guitar strummings… before the song starts)
Sometimes when you watch CNN and you – you sit in front of CNN
And you watch all that stuff on CNN – the headline news maybe
Or you watch party of five.  Or you watch friends..??
Or you watch bombs blowing up in Baghdad
Or you watch people shooting each other 
Or people going hungry because other people eat too much and drink too much….
People standing on top of the white house 
Or people standing up on top of the hill
I don’t care if they’re Republicans or Democrats– I ain’t saying anything  
They stand up there and they sound like they know something!
Well they all still wake up in the morning – drink a cup of coffee 
and take a shit they ain’t better than I am….
They dance around the problems - the changes - 
They talk about the economic implications
But their grand father – great great grandfather was just like my great great grandfather –
Just a bunch of monkeys swinging up in  trees and shittin in the woods
If someone tells you that they know whats going on …Immediately – question them!! … yeah.
Especially the government.. 
I don’t care where the government is – could be in the Moscow.. could be in Washington DC – Don’t just… think we’ve got it made.
Just remember that we are all monkeys and that’s the first thing that’s gonna keep us together..
(now these are the actual song lyrics!!)
Swing in this tree
Oh I am bounce around so well
Branch to branch,
limb to limb you see
All in a day’s dream
I’m stuck
Like the other monkeys here
Me – I am a humble monkey
Sitting up in here again
But then came the day
I climbed out of these safe limbs
Ventured away
Walking tall, head high up and singing
I went to the city
Car horns, corners and the gritty
Now I am the proudest monkey you’ve ever seen
Monkey see, monkey do
Then comes the day
Staring at myself I turn to question me
I wonder do I want the simple, simple life that I once lived in well
Oh things were quiet then
In a way they were the better days
But now I am the proudest monkey you’ve ever seen
Monkey see, monkey do
Monkey see, monkey do

.. If you can find 3 minutes in your day to be totally grounded and reminded of WHAT THE HECK this is all about…

Read this:

This is a transcript of a live performance of one of my favorite songs ever.  It is Dave Matthews band and the song is amazing even without the live intro that he created on the spot –  I highly recommend you find a copy of the song to listen to at some point today – but most versions will not have this intro.  The song itself is enough – but the song combined with the intro is what kicks the hell out of me.  FYI.  

 

Read it… remember your roots and be uplifted because of the way life works.  This is just a reminder that the world we see is not as it is meant to be.  Things have fallen – and fallen far.  This is a way different world than we were meant to have, at least that is what I believe.  And Dave… well… he believes that too.  I mean it.

 

 

(this intro is being sang/talked through by dave with limited guitar strummings… before the song starts)

 

Sometimes when you watch CNN and you – you sit in front of CNN

And you watch all that stuff on CNN – the headline news maybe

Or you watch party of five.  Or you watch friends..??

 

Or you watch bombs blowing up in Baghdad

Or you watch people shooting each other 

Or people going hungry because other people eat too much and drink too much….

People standing on top of the white house 

Or people standing up on top of the hill

I don’t care if they’re Republicans or Democrats– I ain’t saying anything  

They stand up there and they sound like they know something!

Well they all still wake up in the morning – drink a cup of coffee 

and take a shit they ain’t better than I am….

They dance around the problems - the changes - 

They talk about the economic implications

But their grand father – great great grandfather was just like my great great grandfather –

Just a bunch of monkeys swinging up in  trees and shittin in the woods

If someone tells you that they know whats going on …Immediately – question them!! … yeah.

Especially the government.. 

I don’t care where the government is – could be in the Moscow.. could be in Washington DC – Don’t just… think we’ve got it made.

 

Just remember that we are all monkeys and that’s the first thing that’s gonna keep us together..

 

(now these are the actual song lyrics!!)

 

Swing in this tree

Oh I am bounce around so well

Branch to branch,

limb to limb you see

All in a day’s dream

I’m stuck

Like the other monkeys here

Me – I am a humble monkey

Sitting up in here again

 

But then came the day

I climbed out of these safe limbs

Ventured away

Walking tall, head high up and singing

I went to the city

Car horns, corners and the gritty

Now I am the proudest monkey you’ve ever seen

Monkey see, monkey do

 

Then comes the day

Staring at myself I turn to question me

I wonder do I want the simple, simple life that I once lived in well

Oh things were quiet then

In a way they were the better days

But now I am the proudest monkey you’ve ever seen

Monkey see, monkey do

Monkey see, monkey do