Satellite by Dave Matthews Band

Satellite lyrics

Satellite in my eyes

Like a diamond in the sky

How I wonder

Satellite strung from the moon

And the world your balloon

Peeping Tom for the mother station

Winter's cold spring erases

And the calm away by the storm is chasen

Everything good needs replacing

Look up, look down, all around, hey satellite

Satellite headlines read

Someone's secrets you've seen

Eyes and ears have been

Satellite dish in my yard

Tell me more, tell me more

Who's the king of your Satellite Castle?

Winter's cold spring erases

And the calm away by the storm is chasen

Everything good needs replacing

Look up, look down, all around, hey satellite

Rest high above the clouds no restriction

Television we bounce round the world

And while I spend these hours

Five senses reelingI laugh about the weatherman's satellite eyes

Satellite in my eyes

Like a diamond in the sky

How I wonder

Satellite strung from the moon

And the world your balloon

Peeping Tom for the mother station

Winter's cold spring erases

And the calm away by the storm is chasen

Everything good needs replacing

Look up, look down, all around, hey satellite

Rest high above the clouds no restriction

Television we bounce round the world

And while I spend these hours

Five senses reeling

I laugh about the weatherman's satellite eyes


Dave Matthews Band, or DMB for short, is an all-American rock band that formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991. DMB includes the following members: guitarist and singer Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, violinist Boyd Tinsley, and drummer Carter Beauford, and the recently deceased saxophonist LeRoi Moore, who died in August of 2008 and now in his place is Jeff Coffin. Dave Matthews, was a bartender in Charlottesville, when he met a lawyer in early November of 1990. This lawyer, or Ross Hoffman, convinced Dave that he should gang up with a few friends and start a band. The band later signed a deal with RCA (US) records and has been a hit since 1991. Dave Matthews Band has sold over 31 million units in the United States alone, putting them in the top 100 highest selling music acts of all-time! One of their more popular, beloved songs is “Satellite”.

“Satellite”, by DMB has many poetic devices to be praised for. For example in lines 4-6 “Satellite strung from the moon. And the world your balloon, Peeping Tom for the mother station,” these lines are both personification and pun. This is because the moon can’t actually have the world as its balloon, and Peeping Tom is a pun referring to the curiosity of life on the earth, or on the moon. Another poetic device I so graciously found was in lines 13&14, “Eyes and ears have been, Satellite dish in my yard, Tell me more tell me more,” this is both a use of personification and local color. It is local color because of the gossip being spread, and personification because a satellite can’t actually tell you what is going on, but a radio can from a satellite. Among many other uses of poetic devices, the one that really struck me, was found in lines of the last stanza, “Rest high above the clouds no restriction, television we bounce round the world,and while I spend these hours, five senses reeling, I laugh about the weatherman's satellite eyes,” these last lines are motif’s reinforcing the theme of world production in both technology and the need for gossip, which of course is a universal theme.

All-in-all, DMB is clearly one of the greatest American bands of all time. Not only is it proven by their dedicated fans, but it also is shown by the fact that they are on the top 100 highest selling music acts of all-time! And thanks to their brilliance, “Satellite” definitely reinforces the fact that they are no-less the great Dave Matthews Band!