- Good morning baby, guess you wanna touch me now
You wanna put your hands on my face
Tell me you love me,
Tell me you need me
Don't say you love me
Don't say anything...
'Cause I am not that kind of man, I'm much less than you think I am...
So many people are just like Jesus,
They drag all this weight, to get to anything better than...
Where they've been
Or where they are
Well tell me what the hell's the reason when we never get
anywhere...
But you want me to say "Hey, it's okay..."
But I'm so dizzy baby, just get the hell away from me...
How can you breathe?
How can you see?
I can't even sleep when you're with me...
I'm sick of summertime
I know, all of the best things in life are unkind
To be everything I could be, anything
But all the time I'm thinking, "If I only had a pair of wings..."
But you want touch me
Just get your hands off me
Don't touch me
And baby, I can't see that you see
How can you see?
How can you breathe?
I can't feel a thing when you're with me...
I can't take it this way, I hope you understand,
Don't you fucking touch me
I can hardly stand to look at you
How can you breathe?
How can you see?
How can you breathe?
How can you see?
I can't even sleep when you're with me
How can you breathe?
How can you see?
I can't feel...
I can't feel a thing...
Can't feel a thing...
Can't feel a thing...
Can't feel a thing...
- She's closing all the shades
she finds the daylight just a little frightening
she pulls the pedals overhead each day
but she's opening her business is blooming nightly
and every time it does it gets me hazy
the color of her head changing every day
a little breath of wind and I just go crazy
the greening of Americas progressing smoothly
cuz she's choosing me
it's later then I said
and all the worlds a shade of black and purple
everybody else has gone to bed
but when she makes me happy I just fly in circles
and every time she does I just get teary
the color of head changing everyday
a little puff of wind and she's always near me
the greening of America is progressing nicely
it's all right with me
ba ba ba ba na na na na na [Etc.]
if there's another life, and if get to chose I'd like
to be a daisy
I'll stay up waiting for my dusky wife
to open and get high with just my jasmine baby
and every time she does it gets me crazy
the color of her head changing every day
a little breath of wind and I just get crazy
the greening of Americas progressing nicely
it's all right with me-every time she
she does just get teary
the color of her head changing every day
a little breath of wind and she's always near me
the greening of Americas progressing smoothly
cuz she's choosing me
- Who built the ball that is this earth?
Gave me life, and water for my thirst.
Home for a heart till death from birth
And we're only love, at it's best or worst.
Love calling your name
I will live on
Calling your name
Who wrote the pages of our lives?
In black and white, and taught me wrong from right
It's your heart that held you tight
But we're only love
Spin me around and round and round
Love calling your name
I will live on
Calling your name
And the world seems like my enemy
The waterfall of frowns
And the wave of life will capture me
And I'm falling down upon love
C'mon now darling
I'm falling falling down on love
I'm falling down, falling down on love
I'm falling down on love
[Chorus]
- (originally by The Romany Rye)
If tonight’s the night, then today’s my day
That I should hang it all on display.
Yours was just a loser's game,
And I decided that I should play.
Throw your arms around my neck,
I won’t be soon to forget.
Throw your arms around my neck,
I won’t be soon to forget.
Felt the wind’s direction beginning to change.
Clouds so softly full of rain.
The Summer fell and the Winter sprang.
Now it’s all a feeling I can’t get back again.
Throw your arms around my neck,
I won’t be soon to forget.
Throw your arms around my neck,
I won’t be soon to forget.
Cloudy thoughts against a clear blue sky.
When the feeling came, I felt like getting high,
With no sense to try to find my peace of mind.
‘Cause maybe I was born to win, dissatisfied.
Throw your arms around my neck,
I won’t be soon to forget.
Throw your arms around my neck,
I won’t be soon to forget.
Throw your arms around my neck,
I won’t be soon to forget.
Throw your arms around my neck,
I won’t be soon to forget.
- (originally by Teenage Fanclub)
I don't know if you can hear me,
I'm feeling down and can't think clearly,
Even though it's complicated,
We've got time to start again,
I don't know if you can hear me.
Some things I'd change but it's too late,
I'd take the past and make it straight,
And even though it's complicated,
We've got time to start again,
I don't know if you can hear me.
Even though it's complicated,
We've got time to start again,
I don't know if you can hear me.
I'm sorry for the things I've said,
But some thoughts just won't leave my head,
And even though it's complicated,
We've got time to start again,
I don't know if you can hear me.
Even though it's complicated,
We've got time to start again,
I don't know if you can hear me.
Even though it's complicated,
We've got time to start again,
I don't know if you can hear me.
- (originally by Coby Brown)
Hospital bound, so you know there will be treatment.
Hey alright, it's too late to put up a fight.
Hospital gowns, so you know you should be sleepin'
Wide awake, there's some pills that you shouldn't take.
Honest to God, X is always an unknown
I said alright, Y gets buried in the bones.
I said honest to God, if you don't get it off your chest
you don't have to stay around, you don't have to solve for X.
I'm afraid I found it's eternally unequal
hey alright, it's too late to put up a fight.
On the way back down, finally a sequel,
Hey alright, in a hospital room tonight.
Is it alright, and your exit's always an unknown
It's hard to hold on too tight, cuz I got buried with your bones.
And I said honest to God, if you don't get it off your chest
all your reason gone tonight, you don't have to solve for X.
Hospital bound, so you know there will be treatment
Hey alright, in a hospital room tonight.
Hospital gowns, so you know you should be sleepin'
Wide awake, there's some pills that I shouldn't take.
And I said alright, X is always an unknown
I tried to hold on too tight but I got buried with the bone.
And I said honest to God, I got to get it off my chest
I don't want to stick around, cuz I don't need this sufferin'.
- (originally by Tender Mercies)
I got a feeling
of unrighteousness
bitter cold
hollow bitterness
down the road
I walk with loneliness
mercy will follow me I'm told
My sister sang
songs so sweet and sad
bout a man
who's love I never had
there's a train
bound for gillian?
mercy will follow me I'm told
mercy will you follow me
mercy will you follow me
till my final breath at last I take
mercy will you follow me
mercy will you follow me
Till the chains of this old world I finally break
Under this skin
there lies a heart of stone
It's growing old
so very far, from home
but a heart of gold
I may someday own?
and mercy will follow me, I'm told
mercy will you follow me
mercy will you follow me
to my final breath at last I take
mercy will you follow me
mercy will you follow me
Till the chains of this old world I finally break
Till the chains of this old world I finally break
Till the chains of this old world I finally break
- (originally by Fairport Convention)
We used to say that come the day,
We'd all be making songs,
Or writing better words,
These ideas never lasted,
The way is up along the road,
The air is growing thin,
Too many friends who tried,
Blown off this mountain in the wind.
Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge,
When my time is up, I'm gonna see all my friends,
Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge,
If you really mean it, it all comes round again.
Yet now I see, I'm all alone,
But that's the only way to be,
'Cause you'll have your chance again,
Then you can do the work for me.
Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge,
When my time is up, I'm gonna see, see all my friends,
Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge,
If you really mean it, it all comes round again.
Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge,
When my time is up, I'm gonna see all, see all my friends,
Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge,
If you really mean it, it all comes, all comes round again,
Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge,
When my time is up, I'm gonna see all, see all my friends,
Meet on the ledge, we're gonna meet on the ledge,
If you really mean it, it all comes round again.
- (originally by Kasey Anderson & The Honkies)
you’re the kind of thing those sweetheart boys just talk about
such a pretty flame, still burning when the barlights all go out
well everybody knows your name ’round here, but that’s alright
and everybody learned your game ’round here, but that’s alright
you told me if i stayed ’round here, you’d find a good enough place to hide
but i see you
i see you
so come on out tonight
i had my courage up, but felt younger tryin’ to fight the words
so i put a record on, and you found something you ain’t never heard
well, honey, everybody knows that song ‘round here, but that’s alright
ain’t no such thing as waitin’ too long ‘round here, so that’s alright
and i told you if you stay down here you might wind up by my side
and that’s true
that’s true
so come on out tonight
and all my friends told me, “you don’t need laws to tell
that if it feels like fallin’, boy, you probably already fell
the whole table saw your hand, so you might as well just play it
and you ain’t fooling anyone, so you might as well just say it…”
so, i guess i’m in love
i guess i’m in love
some people get scared of those words ’round here, but that’s alright
some people pretend they ain’t heard ‘em ’round here, but that’s alright
and you said you can’t stay ’round here and that won’t change because you made up your mind
but i still see you
i still see you
so come on out tonight
- (originally by Pure Prairie League)
I can see why you think you belong to me,
I never tried to make you think,
Or let you see one thing for yourself,
And now you're off with someone else and I'm alone,
You see I thought I might keep you for my own.
Amie, what you wanna do?
I think I could stay with you,
For a while maybe longer if I do.
Don't you think the time is right for us to find,
That all the things we thought weren't proper could be right in time,
Can't you see which way we should turn together or alone,
I can never see what's right or what is wrong,
'Cause that take too long to see now.
Amie, what you wanna do?
I think I could stay with you,
For a while maybe longer if I do.
Come on now,
Amie, what you wanna do?
I think I could stay with you,
For a while maybe longer if I do.
Now it's come to what you want, you've had your way,
And all the things you thought before just faded into gray,
And can you see that I don't know if it's you or it's me,
But if it's one of us I'm sure we both will see, yeah,
Won't you look at me and tell me.
Amie, what you wanna do?
I think I could stay with you,
For a while maybe longer if I, longer if I do.
Amie, what you wanna do?
I think I could stay with you,
For a while maybe longer if I do.
I keep fallin' in and out of love with you,
Fallin' in and out of love with you,
Don't know what I'm gonna do,
I keep fallin' in and out of love with you.
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)