The lyrics are a timeline of Matthew's rise to fame, which is the subject of many of the songs of Crash. The song begins as a "humble" tune and gradually develops into a strutting, "proud" song.
Dave sugggested at a 2006 concert in Saratoga, NY, that this song is about the human population destroying the world, and one monkey surviving and starting everything over again.
According to the biography Dave Matthews Band: Step Into The Light by Morgan Delancey, this was originally called "Route Two/Evolution," inspired by the band's arduous journey through a snowstorm to play a gig at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and represents their evolution from small-time Virginia rockers to superstars. After getting lost in the mountains along the way, they finally made it to the concert two hours late and improvised a rough version of the tune in lieu of a sound check.
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