anonymous April 17th, 2006 03:10AM  
It's about a guy stalking a woman and peeking into her window and having fantasies about her.

anonymous September 15th, 2006 11:32AM  
True love actually, no one is more beautiful to him than this girl which he talks about in the song...It is about sex too..."you come crash into me, and I come into you,i come into you, in a boys dream", its always on his mind being close to this girl in both a loving and sexual way

anonymous October 17th, 2006 08:44AM  
The wet dream thing makes a lot of sense,but its important to link the music with the lyrics , which makes me doubt the wet dream thing and think its all about the obvious !!!

anonymous November 21st, 2006 02:05AM  
It's about his 3rd grade teacher that he fantasized about

anonymous December 17th, 2006 03:09AM  
This is just how brilliant Dave is...to be able to take a wet dream and make it poetic lol. It cracks me up everytime my work has it playing over the loud speakers.

element4lifex8 April 16th, 2007 11:39AM  
I agree with DarkNick. even though that is not the meaning of the song at all, it cracked me up reading it.

anonymous July 4th, 2007 07:29PM  
According to Vh1 Storytellers , Dave says "this song is about the worship of women but this is a little bit of a crazy man's song about some guy peering into his neighbors window watching a young girl while she's on the phone saying somebody better get down here "he doesn't have a shirt" on lol

pepper023 December 17th, 2007 09:54PM  
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.

anonymous February 6th, 2008 05:01PM  
I have heard from a true die hard fan of DMB that the lyrics to this song actually are pieces of some letters a crazed stalker wrote to Dave. After showing the letters to his band mates, they told him he should put it to some new music they had written.

anonymous February 24th, 2008 12:56PM  
This song is absolutely about a wet dream.

"in a boy's dream"
"crash into me"
"as I come into you"
"show your world to me"

It's all about sexual desire.

anonymous April 13th, 2008 08:10PM  
This song is about sex. cause sex is good. Anyway I thought Darknick or whatever that shit was funny, I remember the first time I had sex I was listening to this song and thought that it fit the time perfectly

kasha1274 February 23rd, 2009 02:26AM  
He tries to break the bond with this girl for whatever reason but he's sooooooo drawn to her physically he can't let go even if he tries. It's about the struggle between his body and his mind. He knows he should let go but can't. Physically addicted!

jleanned April 24th, 2009 11:57AM  
Only an artist like Dave Matthews can make such a perverted song soung so beautiful. It is all about some kind of sexually fantasy. "i'm the king of the castle...you're the dirty rascal.."

anonymous April 28th, 2009 03:40PM  
DOES NOBODY HERE UNDERSTAND SYMBOLISM?
When he says he watches her through the window that is NOT him being perverted and creepy.
THE WINDOW symbolizes something he can see but can't get to. He can picture the girl naked but has no chance with her; the song is about him fantasizing.....

BoerVanBreda May 15th, 2009 04:53AM  
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.

Epic_unknown August 11th, 2009 11:31AM  
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

anonymous November 2nd, 2009 10:35PM  
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.

anonymous November 9th, 2009 08:10PM  
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.