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So here we are tonight
You and me together
The storm outside
and the fire is bright
And in your eyes
I see what’s on my mind
You’ve got me wild
turned around inside
And then desire, see
is creeping up heavy inside here
And know you feel
the same way I do now
Let’s make this an evening
Lovers for a night, lovers for tonight
Stay here with me, love, tonight just for an evening
When we make our passionate pictures
You and me twist up secret creatures
And we’ll stay here
Tomorrow go back to being friends
Go back to being friends
But tonight let’s be lovers,
We kiss and sweat
We’ll turn this better thing to the best
Of all we can offer, just a rogue kiss
Tangled tongues and lips,
See me this way
I’m turning and turning for you
Girl just tonight
Float away here with me
An evening just wait and see
But tomorrow go back to your man
I’m back to my world and we’re back to being friends
Wait and see me,
Tonight let’s do this thing
All we are is wasting hours until the sun comes up it’s all ours
On our way here
Tomorrow go back to being friends
Go back to being friends
Tonight let’s be lovers, oh please, tonight let’s be lovers, say you will
And hear me call, soft-spoken whispering love
A thing or two I have to say here
Tonight let’s go all the way then
Love I’ll see you, just for an evening
Let’s strip down, trip out at this
One evening starts with a kiss
Run away and tomorrow back to being friends
Lovers…love…lovers
Just for tonight, one night…love you
And tomorrow say goodbye

Wanna pack your bags, something small
Take what you need and we disappear
Without a trace we’ll be gone, gone
The moon and the stars can follow the car
and then when we get to the ocean
We gonna take a boat to the end of the world
All the way to the end of the world
Oh, and when the kids are old enough
We’re gonna teach them to fly
You and me together, we could do anything, baby
You and me together yes, yes
You and I, we’re not tied to the ground
Not falling but rising like rolling around
Eyes closed above the rooftops
Eyes closed, we’re gonna spin through the stars
Our arms wide as the sky
We gonna ride the blue all the way to the end of the world
To the end of the world
Oh, and when the kids are old enough
We’re gonna teach them to fly
You and me together, we could do anything, baby
You and me together yes, yes
We can always look back at what we did
All these memories of you and me baby
But right now it’s you and me forever girl
And you know we could do better than anything that we did
You know that you and me, we could do anything
You and me together, we could do anything, baby
You and me together yeah, yeah
Two of us together, we could do anything, baby
You and me together yeah, yeah
Two of us together yeah, yeah
Two of us together, we could do anything, baby
Til we reach the end of the world…

This year’s Bonnaroo, with a lineup that veered deeper than ever into indie, hip-hop, and country, left Dave Matthews Band with the burden of waving the festival’s jam band flag, filling the oft-jammy Sunday night anchor slot on the “What” stage with a set that reminded some 90,000 people more about how DMB got there than why they’re worth paying attention to in 2010.

“It smells good here,” Matthews quipped in his goofy drawl. “Herb and body odor. And every now and then, ‘What the fuck?’

And there were a lot of “what the fuck” moments during the Charlottesville, Virginia-based band’s two-hour-plus set– i.e., just about every time they played something from the past decade. Aside from the slinky growl of “Why I Am,” off 2009′s Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, much of Matthews’ latest material sounded like retreads of the songs that helped him surge to headliner status.

“Shake Me Like a Monkey,” also off GrooGrux, was all brassy bravado and upbeat shuffle, and cut from the same cloth of Matthews’ far superior 1996 single “Too Much,” which he played later. Similarly, “So Damn Lucky,” off Matthews’ 2003 solo album Some Devil, had folks craving “Satellite,” DMB’s quintessential ballad.

But when the hits came, they came hot and heavy.

“Two Step” might be the best expression of what Dave Matthews Band is all about: escaping dark places (in this case embodied by Boyd Tinsley’s violin plucking) and finding the joy in life. “Celebrate we will, ” Matthews sang in the boogie-worthy chorus, “for life is short but sweet for certain.”

Fans soaked up the similar sentiment of “Tripping Billies” (“Why would you care to get out of this place? You and me and all our friends, such a happy human race”) before a four-piece horn section blew the roof off “Jimi Thing,” and the whole band dissolved into a funk groove, riffing gleefully off Prince’s “Sexy M.F.” and its grind-able hook: “Sexy motherfucker shakin’ that ass.”

And while the ass-shaking abilities of the crowd were limited after a scorchingly hot weekend in the muddy, debris-filled festival grounds, Matthews’ set was just fine as Bonnaroo’s digestif. “We’re like the cheese after the dessert,” Matthews said. “A little sparkling wine.”

Lying in the park on a beautiful day
Sunshine in the grass, and the children play
Sirens passing, fire engine red
Someone’s house is burning down on a day like this

The evening comes and we’re hanging out
On the front step and a car goes by with the windows rolled down
And that war song is playing, “why can’t we be friends?”
Someone is screaming and crying in the apartment upstairs

Funny the way it is, if you think about it
Somebody’s going hungry and someone else is eating out
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
Somebody’s heart is broken and it becomes your favorite song

The way your mouth feels in your lover’s kiss
Like a pretty bird on a breeze or water to a fish
A bomb blast brings a building crashing to the floor
You hear the laughter while the children play war

Funny the way it is, if you think about it
One kid walks 10 miles to school, another’s dropping out
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
On a soldier’s last breath his baby’s being born

Standing on a bridge, watch the water passing under me
It must’ve been much harder when there was no bridge just water
Now the world is small, remember how it used to be
With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars

Watch the sky, the jet planes, so far out of my reach
Is there someone up there looking down on me?
Boy chase a bird, so close but every time
He’ll never catch her, but he can’t stop trying

Funny the way it is, if you think about it
One kid walks 10 miles to school, another’s dropping out
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
On a soldier’s last breath his baby’s being born
Funny the way it is, not right or wrong
Somebody’s broken heart becomes your favorite song
Funny the way it is, if you think about it
A kid walks 10 miles to school, another’s dropping out

Standing on a bridge, watch the water passing under me
It must’ve been much harder when there was no bridge just water
Now the world is small, remember how it used to be
With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars