mledre September 19th, 2005 12:10PM  
Clearly this song is about drugs and the way he feels getting high. Whoever said it is about sex has their head in a gutter. Maybe he should read the lyrics again.

anonymous November 13th, 2005 12:12PM  
Well, Dave Matthews kindad bases his life around sex and drugs, but I think this one is mostly about sex too. There are only a couple of references to drugs, so maybe it's about what makes him feel good.

anonymous February 1st, 2006 08:55PM  
Dave Matthews played at your high school so this song is about sex? Yeah, well I guess I missed your logic on that one. But sorry, I don't care if he played at your 4th birthday party, this song is about drugs, it doesn't matter if his drug of choice is heroine, he still smokes pot, I thought most people knew that.

anonymous February 21st, 2006 10:35PM  
You idiot, whoever said that the song is about sex dowsn't know anything. "Smoke my mind make me feel Better for a small time" he says smokeing makes him feel better."If you could keep me floating Just for a while" what makes you float when your high not when your having sex idiot. Its about drugs not sex.

anonymous February 25th, 2006 06:00AM  
I'm thinking that the song is probably a mixture of lot of things, and all you people sit here and argue like you wrote the song, but NONE OF YOU DID. YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING, and your no cooler than anyone else for thinking that you do know what its about..... who knows maybe it's about doing drugs WHILE having sex?

niknak March 16th, 2006 06:53PM  
I believe everyone is right, it about what makes him feel good, drugs and sex, the two mixed together, most of his songs are either of drugs or sex, this has both, there are refrences to sex and drugs, whether it is mostly one adn not the other doesn't matter, its what takes him to a higher place

anonymous June 2nd, 2006 09:19AM  
Any one who says this song is about sex is wrong, there might be some sexual references, but jimi thing is definately about not only smoking marijuana, but mainly about a bowl for that particular purpose. whoever said that "stoners" invented that meaning is very ignorant.

anonymous July 26th, 2006 08:23PM  
This is from the urban dictionary website. http://www.Urbandictionary.Com/define.Php?Term=jimi+thing

Sounds like a drug thing and I believe he mixes the sex in there too for good effect.

DarkNick January 18th, 2007 06:59AM  
Dave actually refers to the meaning of this side in the "Under the Table and Dreaming" tab book. It's about sex.

anonymous June 28th, 2007 01:11AM  
OK is everyone ready to here what Jimi Thing really is all about. (and keep in mind not every line should be taken literally-of course). Dave is telling a story about him being an almost 9 month old fetus inside of his mother and how he is struggling with whether or not to enter the world. "lately I've been feeling low and a remedy is what I'm seeking". (8-9 month old fetus' migrate lower with increased size and near birthing time) and "I take a taste of what's below, come away to something better"-he doesn't want to leave his mother. He continues to struggle with whether to be born..."What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me" ..."and I'll say if you could keep me floating (inside his mothers womb) just for awhile till I get to the end of this tunnel...MOMMY". Ok then this is where it gets weird. Apparently his mother is having pregnant sex and..."sometimes a jimi things slides my way and keeps me swingin" and ..."I'd like to show you what's inside I shouldn't care if you do or don't like it." And describes the turbulent environment of being inside a human body without control of his surroundings..."chaos rule all about sometimes I walk there well yes, God knows sometimes I take a bus there" and how he's just chillin feeling good inside his mom..."the day is gone I'm on my back staring up at the ceiling". AND the finale..."What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me, reaching, searching never stop and I'll say if you could keep me floating just for a while I'll get back to you. -put that in your pipe and smoke it.

BigEyedPhish December 1st, 2007 04:57PM  
Jimi thing is just something that Dave turns to when he's down. It's sex and drugs

tweakcha December 6th, 2007 08:47PM  
Whoever said this song is about dave being a fetus is a fucking dumbass. That was the most terrible interpretation of lyrics I've ever seen. Anyway, this song clearly is about marijuana. In an interview the band responded with these answers when asked about the songs meaning.
-"This is a song about getting high"
-"The song MIGHT be about marijuana cigarettes, but I'm not quite sure..."
-"I'm sorry for seeming a little crazy. I kinda hurt my hand; the doctor gave me a bunch of steroids that got me all fucking crazy, and then I smoked a bunch of fucking pot, and that got me REALLY fucking crazy! Here's a song about getting HIIIIIIIGH."

charlottepatterson83 December 14th, 2007 01:08PM  
Oh god I laughed so hard while reading that fetus one, and then the responses to it. (wipes away tears). The beauty of DMB lyrics is the pluralism. It is easily about both. The references to sex are MORE than obvious as stated already above in a comment (hmm, what is swinging other than having sex with multiple partners while in a commited relationship?). Jimmi Thing IS a slang term for a condom (and while I haven't heard of it- it could easily be a drug reference as well). Dave uses Come in his songs A LOT, and I can assure you that as intelligent as this man is- he knows what he is doing when he places it in a song. Just like the word Grace in Grace is Gone- it can apply to not only a person, but to an adjective/noun/verb whatever as well. This is a common poetic device which he is obviously very familiar with.

anonymous January 6th, 2008 09:06PM  
Maybe he wants it to be an open ended interpretation. You can look at it however you want. Sex or drugs it obviously means something to him but instead of being blatantly obvious either or he is a genius and can apply to more people by doing it the way he does.

masterbaker January 7th, 2008 04:49PM  
I have been in deep discussion with people about what this song really means, so here goes. To me this song is about being strung out. "a remedy is what Im seeking, what I want its what I've not got..." "reaching searching never stop..." Dope sick comes to mind. A jimi thing could be a joint to keep jonesing down "slides my way and keeps me swinging" The reference to him smoking makes it an obvious pot song, but really think about it, its really about what he needs/wants but does not have, and drinking and smoking are referenced as something to keep the withdraw away. So I could be completely wrong and that's ok, but I really think the meaning is something else not just smoking pot.

anonymous February 11th, 2008 11:19PM  
Ok so I usually don't post things but I was reading all this and I had to. Ok soo...Dave's sick! I think that's something we can all agree on and exactly what makes him sick is to have his lyrics relatable and the metaphors he uses. I think it is about sex and I think it is about pot, and hell yea I like both of them so I don't even wanna make myself pick one or the other. It's Dave..its meant to be openly interpreted. Awesome song too.

anonymous April 13th, 2008 07:53PM  
Ha this shit is funny, anyways this song is about pleasures in life, fuckin a one pleasure is smoking, another pleasure is sex..those are a few things that are important to me. He also talks about shit in his life like family which makes him feel good. but what the fuck, about a fetus? that's some bull shit

anonymous June 2nd, 2008 10:30PM  
I think Dave is very smart, I think everyone has good input, I think it could all work it's about good CREATIVE music all put together the way you interpret it is your own thing. He and the band know what it means to them and that's all that matters....its my favorite dave song, I love it because I'm a stoner, but the sex and baby fetus ideas work too, why should we argue over something so pointless instead we should be thanking dave for his genius and this great song.

jojo June 17th, 2008 09:58PM  
I have to laugh too, when I read some of these remarks...I find it all very interesting,...Yes, I'm a Dave Matthews fan, and I think Dave is smart, complex, a great person, and has a side of craziness in him like so many of all of us, but I think all his lyrics can elude to a combination of thoughts and I tend to think that we all over-think the meanings of these songs and ironically, we spend more time doing it than Dave does, straight or high! The music...the beat, can speak more than the words. Everyone appreciates art in a different way and no one should be told that they are incorrect in their opinions. Let the music just make us feel good.

anonymous June 18th, 2008 04:16PM  
It's about pot. "jimi" is pot. maybe it's a condom too, I don't know bc they're not illegal so I don't speak about them in code. maybe it's about sex too. but it's about pot. and fetuses haha I liked that response too. but you people getting all flustered about this should "smoke your mind" and mellow out. and no I'm not a stoner, y'all are just annoyingly argumentative.