- I was born in the jungle
With the sickening smell of cinnamon in the air
I was born in a white hole and I can't believe the colors here today
Stalk on a circle
Well I've never been blessed with elephant's memory
Riding a red line nowhere
If it takes 40 years for the gun to be paid for
If it takes 40 years I'll put the money away
If it takes 40 years to get the things that I need sir
If it takes 40 years I'll walk the thunder and the rain
I was born in a good home
Where the rising cost of raising children
Was not a factor and you can't believe the things it does to me
I'm filled with the white noise
Well I never did much of anything anyway
Jump on a big train no where
[CHORUS]
I wanna buy me a good heart, and a conscience,
and maybe raise some children
I wanna get me a good wife,
and a garden, garden, garden, garden.
Wanna start me a new life with a six foot color television-
Wanna start me a new life somewhere.
I was born on a warm night
On the right coast, of southeastern America.
Dead on arrival, but you can't believe the things you hear today.
I'll fly me a white plane over
water -over blue and green and land in the ocean somewhere.
[CHORUS]
- I Heard my Lisa say
"I can't believe you could leave me looking this way."
When ever music plays... I smile and I can't feel anything
all I want to say..(All I want to say)
is everything's all right and I'm OK
Heard my Lisa today
"say he wants to paint the same me every single day"
"what's wrong with him anyway?"
cuz sometimes I can't feel anything
all I want to say..(All I want to say)
is everything's all right and I'm ok.. I'm OK
My body's mapped before me..
On a flying carpet through the sky
The same things that destroy me...
we'll hang there waiting for me upon a wall outside of me yeah.
Heard my Lisa say
"god blesses the same things every single day."
How'd he miss me anyway? 7 days and I can't feel anything.
My paint is smeared upon his wall..
Its a portrait we are 4 feet tall.. Just Leanardo passing days
with a Mona Lisa cant feel anything. All I want to say..(All I want to say)
is everything's all right and I'm OK all I want to say....(all I want to say)
is everything's all right and I'm OK [7X]
- So she said what's the problem baby
What's the problem I don't know
Well maybe I'm in love (love)
Think about it every time
I think about it
Can't stop thinking 'bout it
How much longer will it take to cure this
Just to cure it cause I can't ignore it if it's love (love)
Makes me wanna turn around and face me but I don't know nothing 'bout love
Come on, come on
Turn a little faster
Come on, come on
The world will follow after
Come on, come on
Cause everybody's after love
So I said I'm a snowball running
Running down into the spring that's coming all this love
Melting under blue skies
Belting out sunlight
Shimmering love
Well baby I surrender
To the strawberry ice cream
Never ever end of all this love
Well I didn't mean to do it
But there's no escaping your love
These lines of lightning
Mean we're never alone,
Never alone, no, no
Come on, Come on
Move a little closer
Come on, Come on
I want to hear you whisper
Come on, Come on
Settle down inside my love
Come on, come on
Jump a little higher
Come on, come on
If you feel a little lighter
Come on, come on
We were once
Upon a time in love
We're accidentally in love
Accidentally in love [x7]
Accidentally
I'm In Love, I'm in Love,
I'm in Love, I'm in Love,
I'm in Love, I'm in Love,
Accidentally [x2]
Come on, come on
Spin a little tighter
Come on, come on
And the world's a little brighter
Come on, come on
Just get yourself inside her
Love ...I'm in love
- Gonna get out on the road tonight
Cause, I got a hollow in my head
Checking it up
Baby, one more time for you
Checking it up
Until the pot hits the sky
It's like I think
I'm sick of cocaine
Got a feeling like
It's running in my veins
Checking it up
Baby, one more time for you
Checking it up
Until the pot hits the sky
Even the best years
Leave a lot to be desired
When they pass you by
All these seasons
All this time
Spinning round
Until they leave you
Far behind
Lay me down in the circle
Where the spotlight shines
All this pleasure gets me high
Some people will cut you
Until you're bleeding
But not me
I just want to do it to myself
Checking it up
Baby, one more time for you
Checking it up
Until the pot hits the sky
Even the best years
Are a waste of time
But, Baby, I'm a big star now
All these seasons
All this time
Spinning round
Until they leave you
Far behind
Lay me down in the circle
Where the spotlight shines
All this pleasure gets me high
All these seasons
All this time
Spinning round
Until they leave you
Far behind
Lay me down in the circle
Where the spotlight shines
Turn your back back on the people
Who draw the line
Put your faith in the answers
That you can find
Hit the Ground hard running down
That highway line
Say a prayer for the ones
You have left behind
All this pleasure gets them high
I don't want to give it back...
- Woke up to this morning
staring at the ceiling
hoping for deliverance
from the distances in you.
this room feels like an oven
somewhere south of no where
north of nothing
barely out of Tuesday
seen seven hours of Wednesday
And I guess got regrets
maybe you could leave a light on
leave a light on for me
can you see her waiting
there down by the sea
with a hat on,
with her eyes in there looking for me.
if you see me coming home turn me away
everybody tries to go back somewhere someday
Wont you give me the distance
52 weeks later, your still the same
I'm standing im my basement
making my arrangements
waiting for the telephone
to ring
to ring
to ring
So I left for Minnesota
where the weather is getting colder
people are changing
maybe you could leave a light on
leave a light on for me
can you see her
waiting there down by the sea
& how arrangements made there for welcoming me?
if you see me coming home turn me away
everybody tries to go back somewhere someday
And for all this distance aint going to bring you to me
what's the point of all this patience
its not your nature
you just keep what you need
and you got some pictures of me
woke up Wendsday morning
sometime Wednesday evening
hoping for a piece of
something easy to believe
we live out on the border
of everything and nothing
theres nothing but waking and dreaming
barely out of tuesday
theres no one to receive me
nothing is changing
maybe you could leave a light on
leave a light on for me
can you see her
waiting there down by the sea
there's a light on but there's no body waiting for me.
if you see me coming home turn me away
everybody tries to go back somewhere someday
everybody tries to go back somewhere someday
everybody tries to go back somewhere someday
everybody tries to go back somewhere.........
- (feat. Vanessa Carlton)
[Adam Duritz]
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
[Vanessa Carlton]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Adam]
They took all the trees, and put em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them
No, no, no
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot
[Vanessa]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Adam]
Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT
I don't care about spots on my apples,
Leave me the birds and the bees
Please
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey now, they paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?
[Vanessa]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Adam]
Listen, late last night, I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi took my girl away
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Well, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot
Why not?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Hey hey hey
Paved paradise and put up a parking lot
[Vanessa]
Ooooh, bop bop bop
Ooooh, bop bop bop
[Adam, Vanessa]
I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
Why you wanna giving it all away
Hey, hey, hey
Now you wanna give it
I should wanna give it
Now you wanna giving it all away
I don't wanna give it
Why you wanna give it
Why you wanna giving it all away
Hey, hey, hey
Now you wanna give it
I should wanna give it
Cos you giving it all away
Hey, hey, givin it all,
givin it all....away
[Vanessa]
Why do you want me?
why do you want me?
[Adam]
Cos' you're givin it all away,
Hey, paved paradise to put up a parking lot
- Hey now bulldog
dont you rush in
with your eyes wild
hey there big bear
take a moment
to decide
All these angels together
walk the wire line
scarecrow angels
says the bulldog
with a smile
they catch you in a corner
shut your eyes
they come at you at night
they catch you in a corner
shut your eyes
they come at you at night
One less bell to warn you..
One more chance to say goodbye
I dont I dont I dont think
I understand you..
dont really think I do
I dont I dont I dont
..think I understand you
dont really think I do
Hey Louise whats the barrier
between love and need?
How far is it from love underneath
What are you supposed to mean to me
what do you mean to me?
they catch you in a corner shut your eyes
they come at you at night
they catch you in a corner
shut your eyes
they come at you at night
one less bell to warn ya one more song to play..
Im going back to california
your gonna get your chance to say goodbye
Hey mathew, is anybody mean to you
and dont you harbor points of view
secretly belive in your doom
I dont think I understand you
I dont really think I do
I dont think I understand you
I dont really think I do
Well ya got One less bell to warn ya
One more song to play
Im going back to California
gonna get your chance to say goodbye
One less bell to warn ya, one more chance to say goodbye...
- I never go to New York City these days
Something about the buildings in Chelsea just kills me
Maybe in a month or two,
Maybe when things are different for me,
Maybe when things are different for you
You know all of this shit, just sticks in my head
Is there anything different these days?
The light in her eyes goes out
I never had light in my eyes anyway
Maybe things are different these days
It's good for everybody to hurt somebody once in a while
The things I do to people I love shouldn't be allowed
Something about the buildings in Chelsea just kills me
Something about the buildings in Chelsea just kills me
Is there anything different these days?
The light in her eyes goes out,
I never had light in my eyes anyway
Maybe things are different these days
I dream I'm in New York City some nights.
Angels flow down from all the buildings
Something about an angel just kills me
I keep hoping something will
Is there anything different these days?
The light in her eyes goes out,
I never had light in my eyes anyway
Maybe things are, maybe maybe maybe
Maybe things are, maybe maybe maybe maybe things are different,
Maybe things are different these days
The light goes out
I never had light in my eyes anyway
Maybe things are different ......these days.
- come a little closer if you can
just forget your fears
come to me
cause where I want to be
is closer to you
put your little hand into my hand
throw off this disquise
come to me
cause I just want to be
closer to you
I'm oh so tired of this awefull fight
cant get by without you
I dont know how I'm gonna be alright
But Im all messed up
ya im all messed up
ya I am
dont you wish we were younger
these things go to fast
come to me
because I used to be
closer to you
Oo come to me cause
I *need* to be
closer to you
- Sunday morning paper dated 1992
There are cowboys in my kitchen
empty bottles on the roof
I've been trying to quit these cigarettes
I've been trying to think its true
Maybe she's gone to California
maybe Ill go out there too
Daylight fading come and waste another year
all the anger and the elegance are bleeding into fear
moonlight creeping round the corners of our lawn
when she sees the early signs of daylight fading
she leaves just before its gone
Daddy's on the rooftop with his fingers in
the gun and I am waiting at the window I am
waiting for the one
Shying in that paper when she walked into my room I said I want to
say good-bye to you good-bye to all my friends good-bye to everyone I know
Daylight fading come and waste another year
all the anger and the elegance are bleeding into fear
moonlight creeping round the corners of our lawn
when she sees the early signs of daylight fading
she leaves just before its gone
Daylight fading come and waste another year
all the anger and the elegance are bleeding into fear
moonlight creeping round the corners of our lawn
when she sees the early signs of daylight fading
she leaves just before its gone
- Albert's always sincere, he's a sensitive type
His intentions are clear, he wanna be well-liked
If everything is nothing, then are we anything?
Is it better to be better than to be anything?
And Albert's vision is blooming uncontrolled
All his wings are slowly sinking
The world begins to disappear
The worst things come from inside here
All the king's men reappear
For an eggman, on and off the wall
Who'll never be together again
Einstein's down on the beach staring into the sand
Cause everything he believes in is shattered
What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway-ay
We all get burned as:
One more sun comes sliding down the sky
One more shadow leans against the wall
The world begins to disappear
The worst things come from inside here
And all the king's men reappear
For an eggman, on and off the wall
Who'll never be together again
Albert's waiting in the sun
On a field American
For the cause of some inflated form of hit and run
One more sun comes sliding down the sky
One more shadow leans against the wall
The world begins to disappear
The worst things come from inside here
And all the king's men reappear
For an eggman, fallin' off the wall
Will never be together again
Albert's fallen on the sun
Cracked his head wide open
The world begins to disappear
The worst things come from inside here
And all the king's men reappear
For an eggman, falling, falling
The world begins to disappear
The worst things come from inside here
And all the king's men reappear
For an eggman, fallin' off the wall
Will never be together again
No never be together again
No no never never never again, uh huh
What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway
- Larry's in vegas..with some chick from La
the best things are sevens and sex is just ok so please stay
she said just stay
cause there's a show at 11 and the drinks are all free you can do
better for yourself but not me ....
...so please stay and keep me company.
All the while thinking this is the good luck, stays with her most of the time
takes time to make these machines work, people are so unkind
Gets kinda nervous
used to be hard.
She takes the edges off evenings in bedrooms and back seats in big cars.
All the while thinking this is the good luck stays with her most of the time
it takes time to make these machines work people are so unkind.
People are so unkind
She looks in the mirror
to make she's here
she keeps disappearing and dreaming of movie stars- weddings and nothing is happening
He tries not to notice
She thinks he doesn't care.
Capture yourself in a jar and you stay there,
until you vanish
thin air
all the while thinking this is the good luck stays with her most of the time
it takes time to make these machines work but he aint got time while
she's riding in black cars and pokes at the sky to see if he can make stars and
people are so unkind
people are so unkind..
People are so unkind..
People are so unkind...
people are so unkind
People are so..
UN
KIND..
- here comes that feeling again
you're always around me
this island life never ends
it just circles inside me
and when we're older
we'll go back to being friends
but oh,
here comes that feeling again
i better get away from all these
oh-so-familar places that i see
i gotta find a place without so many
familar faces in front of me
when i wake up in the morning
and there's no one there but me
i'll remember
i'll remember
here comes that feeling again
you're always around me
this island life never ends
it just circles inside me
and when we're older
we'll go back to being friends
but oh,
here comes that feeling again
gotta keep on moving through these
distances between yesterday and now
as if all this riding on these white lines
will make them fade away somehow
do you try not to remember
the things you cannot forget
and are you sorry for what hasn't happened yet
i stare at everyone
it makes me wonder why
i can't see anyone but you
maybe change
and all these faces
reappear in different places
and i can't see a thing but you
here comes that feeling again
you're always around me
this island life never ends
it just circles inside me
and when we're older
we'll go back to being friends
but oh,
here comes that feeling again
- Its crazy but often clear often clear..
We shimmer and disappear
In color in black and white black and white..
We slowly fade out of site
but these days were lit by lightning thin lines of light
Its crazy but somehow clear somehow clear
we ride in silence out of fear
We've spoken seem come alive come alive
we prefer the silence of the blind
But these days were lit by lightning
thin lines of light
these days
were lit by lines
of sharp
white
shock
white
ice
hard
cold
white
light
were crazy but often kind often kind
we rage in violence blind
Together and then alone then alone
we race in small circles home
but these days
were lit by lightning
Thin lines of light
These days
were lit by lines of sharp
white
light
these days
Were lit by lightning
Thin lines of light..... These days.. were lit by light
- Put on your bad self
get out your party dress and fix up your makeup try
to make a good impression this is a new world -
were all the same here, well maybe not the same you know what I mean.
I've got everything that you want I've got everything and someday Ill be president.
I've for everything that you want..
I've got everything except the single thing you really need.
Separate, love from addiction its not the same I know
I see desperation pulling my strings. Hey eliza now what do you want?
I play piano and I sing like a humming bird and oh I forgot
that humming birds don't sing, it doesn't matter really you know what I mean.
I've got everything that you want I've got everything
and its a brand new world eliza. I've got everything that you want..
I've got everything except the single thing you really need.
Sail away blood and rejection ..they isolate.
I know I see, a generation staring back at me..
Wasted away....
wasted my time this picture you see is nothing like the one
I wanted painted of me.
"Eliza says it's all right with me, if your sure ...
it wouldn't be the first time, you know it's happened a couple of times before
and.. I don't even expect much anymore and anyway...
it's not as if I was waiting for you to come and make it all okay".
Shut away to to wing blood and rejection they isolate
I know I see visions of people grabbing hold of me.
Wasted away... wasted my time...
this picture you see is nothing like the one I wanted painted of me.
Put on your bad self, get out your party dress and fix up your makeup try
and make a good impression..
- In the still water she lies down
Shaking through the press of sunlight
We rolled into Lexington
She shakes off the drop of daylight
Water beading up her chest
Bleeding down between her knees
Rivers in Kentucky flow
Between the bluegrass wavy seas
But oh, Margery
Twists the knife once more inside of me
Breathless with anticipation
Baited reelers set their hooks
Tuck their heads beneath the high grass
And lie and wait beside the brooks
Were infants pushing slowly through
Frustration leading back along
The alleys of a childhood
That will not release us willingly
But oh, Margery ..sticks the knife in while I couldn't see (strait into me baby)
Dust me off and shut me down
And dream of where I haven't been
Close the door inside my heart
Stuck in the south Atlantic wind
I have hollow eyes
Haunting only to myself
Even so, I can't stop calling
These great big hollows in my self
I took the train form California
To the far side of the continent
Woke up in Kentucky
Where a wedding was about to end
I looked up at Anna
She turned back to look at me
It's best to kill the ones that matter
Render blind the ones who see
But oh, Margery
Takes the blade and walks away from me
Oh, Margery
Love like blood is pouring out of me
Oh, Margery
My heart won't stop bleeding over me baby
Oh, I can't shut it in
It's got far too many doors to block the wind
Oh, I can't shut it in
It's got far too many doors to block the wind
- my love
lives out at the end of the road
takes what you give her and goes
says things that everyone knows
shes only willing
to kiss me again
lights me on fire
sprays me with water
and she lights me up again
said my love
burried my head in the sand
screams just as loud as she can
sings me to sleep when I cant
shes always willing
to kiss me again
she wakes up the neighbors
Goes down for water
and then she comes up again
I said good love
lives on the radio dial
never goes out of style
makes all the children run wild
we keep on thinking
Strait to the end?
now its completly
we just just shout for the moment and then we vanish again
my love
waits at the end of the road
takes what you give her and goes
says things that everyone knows
ya shes my love
talking about my love
ya shes my love my love my love
shes my love
- Exit 8
Small cafe
Georgia moonlight
It's three a.m.
I've been driving all night
Got a funny air
Red-brown hair
In the porch light
She said 'We're open all night
So won't you come inside
It's gonna be all right'
She said tired
I said I'm a little bit unstable
She said 'Honey, I will help you if I'm able
There's a bottle of relief upon the table
And we're open all night
So won't you come inside
It's gonna be all right'
She said 'I was born the year the rockets landed
Circa 1969 and I got stranded
Yeah, but the comet's getting close
And I can't stand it.'
She said 'We're open all night
So won't you come inside
Exit A
Small cafe
Smoke at three
Georgia moonlight
It's eight a.m.
I've been drinking all night
And there is nothing I will not do to make it all right
She said 'We're open all night
So won't you come inside
It's gonna be all right'
- Mary Jane says it's all right
She's just around the corner from the main light.
Any day now, it's all right
She's standing on the precipice of big time.
And I know I'm a little uptight,
I've got to go before the sun shines.
We're just a couple small people squeezing out a life,
We need a little good time.
It's not far from the edge,
Mary comes and goes.
Drifting through the scenery of the shallow days below,
That is anybody knows.
You follow trains out of town and they vanish somewhere under the horizon.
Yeah well I saw Mary Jane dragged her shadow down the tracks, Stare off in the distance.
It's not far from here,
Mary waves hello.
Smiling though she's sinking in the shallow days below,
I can't find a way out of here.
Out on the road again,
I'm much, much too concerned about Mary Jane.
I'm all alone again,
I like what she said, not what it means.
She leaves me drowning through the shallow days, down below.
You know I heard a band playing waltzes in a grange hall
The sun is sinking lower.
People staring, Mary Jane humming softly to herself,
Nobody really knows her.
Any day now it's all right,
She tells herself that this will be the last time.
Mary Jane pulls her hair back and wonders what she'll do with all her free time.
Not too far from here,
Mary turns to go.
Smiling while the waltz begins, dancing down the road
Hey hey Mr. Freedom,
What are we supposed to think?
'Cause I'm a very tiny person and it worries me.
I'm all alone again,
I like what she says, not what it means.
She leaves me drowning in the shallow days way down below.
"I'm sorry", she said,
"I know it's not the kind of thing you want."
I'm falling, falling down.
"I'm sorry", she said.
"I know I'm not the kind of girl you want."
We're falling, falling, falling, falling down.
- She don't want nobody near
But you can't get away from that
They appear and disappear
And they all get a string attached
Pretty soon they got you hanging on a line
Pretty soon they're singing one by one the same old rhyme
They say, "I'm alright, I just can't get home tonight"
She don't want nobody home
Cause it's a little too crowded then
But she don't wanna be alone
So they just keep pouring in
Pretty soon they have her headed for the door
She comes home to find that they're not hanging round no more
She says, "I'm alright, you just can't get home tonight"
Don't you wonder what she looks like in the light?
She says, "I'm alright, I just can't get home tonight"
Pretty whitewashed lies
Endless alibis
And reasons that need cleaning every night
Half a world away
You can't wash away the stain of the deceiving
And the things that you cannot believe, and well...
She don't want no one around
Cause she don't want anybody to see
What she looks like when she's down
Cause that's a really sad place to be
Pretty soon she gets them crawling up the walls
Then she wonders why they beg her please to never call
She says, "I'm OK. It's alright.Hey, look who's on TV
tonight"
She says, "I'm alright, I just can't get home tonight"
Don't you wonder why it's dark outside at night?
She says, "I'm alright, I just can't get home tonight"
Counting crows
Adam Duritz (Vocals, Piano, Guitar, Harmonica)
Dan Vickrey (Guitar, Vocals)
David Immergluck (Guitar, Vocals)
Charlie Gillingham (Hammond organ, accordion, piano, keyboards)
Millard Powers (bass guitar, drums, mandolin, piano, vocals)