I can't decide too well whether this one is about our transitory lifetimes, or just some guy who's gonna make a change? Maybe it's both. I'm shooting for the transitory lifetimes theory. Sticking with this theory, the Warehouse would be our bodies. I'm not sure about the black cat and ladders. They're usually bad-luck omens. And again, I'm not saying that all of this is what Dave Matthews intended in his lyrics, just that this is what I hear when I hear this song. See also: Our Entire Lifetime

Hey reckless mind
Don't throw away your playful beginnings
Hey fickle conciousness, don't forget what you were before you were born!
You and I will fumble around in the touches
You and the true me will play on this Earth for a while
And be sure to
Leave all the lights on
So we can see the black cat changing colors
And we can walk under ladders
And we can live and take chances
And swim as the tide turns you around and around
And we can do as we please as the greater forces move us

Hey we have found
Becoming one in a million
Here I am back on Earth seen as an individual
Slip into the crowd
I look like everyone else
This question I found in the gap in the sidewalk
I was looking for answers on this ordinary day
Keep all your sights on
Hey the black cat changing colors
And you can walk under ladders
And you can live and take chances
And swim as the tide choose to turn you
And you can do as you please as the greater forces move you

And here I sit
Life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set
And here I am, Life goes on, then death comes. It's like a TV set
Spot in the middle
I'm just this spot in the middle of millions that make this big picture
Static fade, statistical bit
I'll grow old, just a small part
And soon I'll fade away
And soon I'll die
I'll fade away
I'll die
This I admit
Taste so good, hard to believe an end to it
I admit life feels so good, I hate to think it ends
Smell touch feel
Enjoying all my senses
How could this rhythm ever quit

Bags packed on a plane
My soul's ready for a journey
Hopefully to heaven
(Don't we all hope?)

Shut up I'm thinking
Shut up, I'm concentrating!
I had a clue now it's gone forever
I almost had an answer to this life and beyond, and now it's gone
Sitting over these bones
Sitting there above me but unreachable
You can read in whatever you're needing to
So instead I'll make up an answer and say it's right to keep my sanity

Keep all your sights on
Yeah man, the black cat
Changing colors
When it's not the colors that matter
But that they'll all fade away
This I admit
Seems so good
Hard to believe an end to it
Hard to believe this great life could die
Warehouse is bare
Nothing at all inside of it
That my body could be emptied (and return to the earth)
Walls and halls have disappeared
They disappear
All of life's trouble are no longer here

My love I love to stay here
My love I love to stay here
I love my loves in life
In a corner was wondering
If a change could be better than this
I was wondering if a change (death?) could be better than this life
And then I worry
Maybe things won't be better than than they have been
Here in the warehouse
And then I worry that things won't be better than in this life
At the warehouse
In my body
How I love to stay here
How I love my life
At the warehouse
Every man and woman
Get alive
Men, women, everyone, Wake up and live! Take it for granted!
That's our blood down there
That's our bodies down there
Seems poured from the hands of angels
They seem to be from hands above
But trickle into the ground
But eventually they move on
(Kind of like water falling from the sky, falling onto a net, then dripping away to a pool below)
Leaves the warehouse bare and empty
Leaving our bodies empty
My heart's numbered beat
My mortal existence
Still echo in this empty room
Parts of what was me still remain
Fear wells in me
I'm afraid of death
But nothing seems enough to defend
But I can't seem to fight it
So I am going away
I'm dying. See you later. Bye bye.