What is the meaning of Dave Matthews Band's "Out of My Hands"?

Question

What is the metaphor? and what is it representative of in the song?

One interpretation of the metaphor is that he is looking down out of a burning building, and the "pig dressed at his finest fine" represents a cop trying to help him, but still that leave much of song unexplained.

Is it just suppose to be representative of a decision he had no control over?

Out on my window ledge
I don't feel safe
And I stay
Looking down on you

It's out of my hands for now
It's out of my hands for now

I can't just walk away
Be nice to walk away
But I don't feel safe
Get away, all the way up here

It's out of my hands for now
It's out of my hands for now

Oh it is... down from here
And down from here
Start to feel insane
Betrayed out here on my window ledge

Our finest hour arrives
See the pig dressed in his finest fine
And all the believers stand behind him and smile
As the day lights up with fire

Let me in
Let me in
I start to feel like I'm crazy
Betrayed, out here on my window ledge

Now our finest hour arrives
See the pig dressed in his finest fine
All the believers stand behind him and smile
Watch, the day lights up in fire

Looking down from here
It's out of my hands for now
Out on my window ledge
It's our of my hands for now

So let me in
Let me in

Answer 1

You may already have checked out this site, but I thought I'd link it anyway. It has a few different opinions on the song-I personally have only heard the 9/11 /President Bush link to the song. Unless Dave himself has stated what it's about, we honestly don't know. A lot of songwriters, in particular with Dave Matthews, like to leave it to the listener to create their own connection to the song.



Anyway here's the link-hope I helped.

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858543236/

Answer 2

DMB is, in my experience, most popular among college-aged people and 20-somethings. College kids who shop at American Eagle are a big part of the DMB fanbase. And some hippie-types like to listen to "Dave". My friends in their 20's have a rabid obsession with DMB. Dave tours locally every summer and everybody who's anybody shows up to at least one of the two shows. I like some DMB music, but I'm not as enthusiastic as everyone else I know. I'm not a teenager, but I wouldn't brand DMB "teenagy". More like "collegy".

Answer 3

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What is the meaning of Dave Matthews Band's "Out of My Hands"?

What is the metaphor? and what is it representative of in the song?



One interpretation of the metaphor is that he is looking down out of a burning building, and the "pig dressed at his finest fine" represents a cop trying to help him, but still that leave much of song unexplained....