Lyrics Tripping Billies - Live at The Arena in Oakland, Oakland, CA 10.31.98 - Dave Matthews Band

We were above
You were standing underneath us
We were not yet lovers
Dragons were smoked
Bumblebees were stinging us
I was soon to be crazy

Eat, drink, and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die
Eat, drink, and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die
'Cause we're tripping billies

We're wearing nothing
Nothing but our shadows, shadows falling down on the beach sand
Remembering once, out on the beaches
We wore pineapple grass bracelets

So why would you care
To get out of this place?
You and me and all our friends
Such a happy human race, ueah

We're tripping billies

We are all sitting, legs crossed 'round a fire
My yellow flame, she dances
Tequila drinking, oh, our minds will wonder
To wondrous places

So why would you care
To get out of this place?
You and me and all our friends
Such a happy human race

Eat, drink, and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die
Eat, drink, and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die
Take it up, boy

Eat, drink, and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die
Eat, drink, and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die
Eat, drink, and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die
Eat, drink, and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die, yeah

You know my boy Tinsley here
Thank you all so very much this week
Hey, yeah we've got a special guest gonna come up tonight and play a couple tunes with us
He's from around here but he lives over in the East coast
Well he's back here this evening
Hey y'all, don't say nothing, we all came from the same place, we own the same swimming pool
Just some people in the shallow and peoples ship
Ship, y'all ship
Oh, he's a good friend, my coastal friend y'all