#41

Matthews wrote this when he was starting to become famous. Along with his fame came other people's greed. Many people were grabbing for as much money as they could get, and forgot about the real meaning of the music. For example, the band's former manager, Ross Hoffman, owned the rights to some of their early songs and sued the group for a share of the profits. The song shows how Dave was saddened by the situation, as he considered Hoffman a close friend and mentor. Key lines include, "All at once the ghosts come back," and, "Remember when I used to play for all of the loneliness that nobody notices now."

This song got its title because it was the 41st song they wrote.

Dave elaborated on the song's meaning in an interview with Rolling Stone: "I was thinking about where I come from, and why I wrote songs and what was my inspiration... and how I was now in this situation where those things that I'd done, I so loved, had now suddenly become a source of incredible pain for me. Suddenly there's all this money and people pulling, asking, 'Where's mine?' The wild dogs come out. The innocence of just wanting to make music was kinda overshadowed by the dark things that come along with money and success ... So it's a song about looking back, but at the same time, a song that's still adamantly looking forward and going, 'But I'm still going to carry on, regardless."