Live Performance History
"Lie in Our Graves" is one of the band's oldest songs, having been played by the full band on a regular basis as early as the fall of 1992 during the band's regular gigs at Trax Nightclub in Charlottesville, Virginia, and even earlier as a solo song for Matthews. It has been a staple of every major tour the band has performed since its introduction, and has also been played extensively on Matthews's tours with Tim Reynolds and on the Dave Matthews & Friends tour in 2003 and 2004. As of the close of the band's tour in 2007, the song is the ninth most-frequently played song in DMB live performance history, with 633 full performances.
During its early years, the song was performed live in a similar fashion to how it was recorded in studio for Crash. Over time, though, the live performance of the song gradually evolved so that the jam portion in the song's middle (before the final lyrical "reprise" portion) was extensively protracted from how it was played in studio. By 1998, running times in excess of 10 minutes were commonplace, and a mere two years later, performances exceeding 15 minutes were occurring regularly. This expansion allowed for an ever-expanding group of guest collaborators to contribute performances to the song.
During the latter portion of the 2007 tour, the live performance evolved further still, as the band experimented with splitting the "reprise" portion from the rest of the song. This resulted in performances where the song (minus the reprise) was played in full early in the show, with the reprise being played out of nowhere much later in the show; or even merely the reprise being played on its own somewhere in the show, absent the rest of the song.
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