Pig

There is a song from the Dave Matthews Band called "Pig". For some reason its just been ringing through my head all week. I think its because I have been feeling overwhelmed with midterms and I have not been doing too well with my grades. The song is a warning to all listeners about the dangers of taking things for granted. My favorite line in the song comes after Matthews, the lead singer, belts out at the top of his lungs a few lines about the importance of love in every situation. The line is "Don't burn the day away". I really love this line because with everything else going on in the song he repeats this the same way every time, with no instruments playing in the background and all your attention is brought to this one line. Matthews, in doing this, warns the listeners by bringin so much attention to this simple phrase, that there are many way to waste a day but no matter what every single day should be lived to the fullest with love in our hearts and trying to find love in all people and places. Throughout the song he talks about simple things, like a starry night, skipping stones on a lake, and dancing alone with a lover, that if your hearts full of love at least you're living life. Nothing can be taken for granted and everything we do should be to the fullest. He is sick and tired of all the people in the world that have so much and complain about not having enough and calls these people "pigs". He believes that appreciating life and having love in your life is what makes a person truly happy and not what type of things they own. Greed can consume and Matthews tries dearly to warn his audience of this.