- She brings her friends so we wont have to be alone
Fear I might lose my composure without warning
I am a child of fire I am a lion I have desires
And I was born inside the sun this morning
This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
This dizzy life is just a hanging tree
This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
This dizzy life is just a hanging tree
They say good evening when they dont know what to say
They say good morning when they wish you would go home
You open windows and you wait for someone warm to come inside and then freeze to death alone
This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
This dizzy life is just a hanging tree
This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
This dizzy life is just a hanging tree
She calls a waitress when its time for her to go
And I know everyone is eventually leaving
I got a pair of wings for my birthday baby and I will fall down through the sun to see you mine
This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
This dizzy life is just a hanging tree
This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the time
This dizzy life is just a hanging tree
For me, for me, for me
- I'm a Russian Jew American
Impersonating African Jamaican
What I want to be is an Indian
I'm gonna be a cowboy in the end
I guess I bought a gun
because it impresses all the little girls I see
and then they all wanna sleep with me
Oh where did we disappear
into the silence that surrounds us and then
drowns us in the end
Where these people who impersonate our friends
Say come again come again come again
Into the dark Italian underground
with disco lights and disco sounds and skinny
girls who drink champagne
Then they take me on their knees again,
and pull me up and out the door
past railway cars and tranny-whores
And mornings spreading out across the
feathered thighs of angels
Oh were did we disappear to
the silence that surrounds us and then drowns us in the end
Will they try to get you out to pull you in
And all these people, they've been? come again
In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue
In 1493 he came home across the deep blue sea
In 1494 he did it with the girl next door
In 1495 he barely made it out alive
In 1964 ???? busting out the door
In 1970 some people got their hands on me
Now I am the king of everything
I am the king of nothing now
I am the king of everything
I am the king of nothing
Oh where did we disappear
to the silence that surrounds us and then
drowns us in the end
Where these people who impersonate our friends
Say come again come again come come again
Oh where did we disappear
to the silence that surrounds us and then
drowns us in the end
When they try to push you out to get you in
and all these people who impersonate our friends
Say come again come again come
come again come again come again
- Got no place to go
but there's a girl waiting for me down in Mexico
She's got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin
And if I bring a little music I can fit right in
We've got airplane rides
We got California drowning out the window side
We've got big black cars
And we've got stories how we slept with all the movie stars
I may take a holiday in Spain
Leave my wings behind me
Drink my worries down the drain
And fly away to somewhere new
Hop on my choo-choo
I'll be your engine driver in a bunny suit
If you dress me up in pink and white
We may be just a little fuzzy 'bout it later tonight
She's my angel
She's a little better than the one that used to be with me
Cause she liked to scream at me
Man, it's a miracle that she's not living up in a tree
I may take a holiday in Spain
Leave my wings behind me
Drive this little girl insane
And fly away to someone new
Everybody's gone
They left the television screaming that the radio's on
Someone stole my shoes
But there's a couple of bananas and a bottle of booze
Oh, well happy new year's baby
We could probably fix it if we clean it up all day
Or we could simply pack our bags
And catch a plane to Barcelona 'cause this city's a drag
I may take a holiday in Spain
Leave my wings behind me
Flush my worries down the drain
And fly away to somewhere new
Take a holiday in Spain
Leave my wings behind me
Drive this little girl insane
Fly away to someone new
(2X)
- (Come on children mind the gap)
Miracle people with marvelous hair
And a knack to do anything better than anyone's
I got a home with electrical air
And I live in a world
Smaller than anyone
But I got a line on a new frontier
I got a line on a new America
All of the people are vanishing here
I could be huge, If I could just get home
From the outside of everything
To the inside of you
From the outside of everything
To the inside of you
Purest Aluminum people
are walking the streets of London
So hysterical
Nobody here gets a word that I say
and the problems I'm told, are more than medical
But I got a friend from the new frontier
And Galen, she says, "this is not america" You need a girl with electrical hair
And the words that you wanted was al-u-min-ium
From the outside of everything
To the inside of you
From the outside of everything
To the inside
I was in bed with
The girl at the end of the world
She said "I'm going home,
You should come home too
But I'm at the end of a new frontier
here at the edge of the flat earth ending
I'm getting off to get lost in the air
At the end of the world where the light is bending
From the outside of everything
To the inside of you
(4X To the inside of you)
- The gentle man caller in the blue suede shoes
He don't know what to do
he just wants to look good for you
So he rushes in to tell you what he did today
but he can't think of what to say
I think you listen anyway.
He wants to have a good time
just like everybody
He doesn't want to fall apart
You watch him as he stutters over what to say
It's just a little game you play
it's no easier for you some days
You wish you could tell him it'll be okay
but you feel a little shy these days
cause everybody goes away
(Oh...)
You just want to have a good time
Just like everybody else
You don't want to fall apart this time
I can look into your eyes and see the mess we're in
Well darling if it's shit came out
Then I suppose that it's shit went in
Even though I couldn't say I've been the
places that you've been
You know he made my heart real strong
even if he made my head real thin
I want have a good time
just like everybody
And I dont want to fall apart this time
so would you please invite me in
(ohhhhhhh....)
I really love the red haired girls
I'm just another boy from Texas
C'mon and take a spin
I got a brand new set of wings
oh,
I really really love the red haired girls
I'm just another boy from texas
C'mon and take a spin
hey
I gotta brand new set of wings
Man I sure do love them red haired girls
Im just like all the boys from texas
come on take a spin
hey little girl I got a brand new set of wings
- [the song formerly known as Insomnia]
Is everybody happy now
Is everybody clear
We could drive out to the dunes tonight,
Because summer's almost here.
I've been up all night,
I might sleep all day.
Get your dreams just right
Then let 'em slip away,
I might sleep all day...
And when the roads are clear,
You head on out of here,
And If you're coming back,
I'll see you in the morning
I'm just staring at
the ceiling staring back at me,
Just waiting for the daylight to come crawling in on me...
And I've been up all night,
I might sleep all day.
Get your dreams just right
Then let 'em slip away,
I might sleep all day....
It's too late to get high now.
(2X)
fix your hair just right
Put your jeans on tight,
Or wear a dress, so I can get it off real easy.
I've been thinking I'd
like to see your eyes
open up real wide the minute that you see me.
If you don't come through,
I wouldn't wait for you.
I understand that everyone goes disappearing,
into the greater grey
that covers over everyday,
and hovers in the distance
(and the distance and the distance...)
I've been up all night,
I might sleep all day.
Get your dreams just right
Then let 'em slip away,
I might sleep all day.
It's too late to get high now.
(2X)
Baby I'm not alone
only wanna get high
- I said "goodnight LA"
Cause I’m awake in my room
I’ve been up for 38 hours
And it don’t look like sleep’s coming soon
Cause I could break like a bird
Or I could swallow the sea
It seems like the daylight is coming
And no one is watching but me
But I don’t mind the dark
Discovering the day
Cause the night is a beautiful bright blue and gray
what brings me down now is love
cause I can never get enough
And what brings me down now is love
cause I can never get enough of love
And it’s a dangerous time
for a heart on a wire
Shuttled from station to station
noisily not knowing why
So I put my head on the ground
and the sky is a wheel
Spinning these days into things that I’ve lost
But you can keep all the years
But I don’t mind the days
gone rolling away
Cause all this sunlight feels warm on my face today
But what brings me down now is love
cause I can never get enough
What brings me down now is love
cause I can never get enough never get enough
Never get enough no no
Never get enough of love
I can never get enough of love
What brings me, brings me down now is love
Cause I can never get enough of love
I can never get enough of love
I can never ever get enough
I can never get enough of love
- Got a message in my head
that the papers had all gone
Richard Manuel is dead
And the daylight's coming on
I've been wandering through the dark
now I'm standing on the lawn
If I could give all my love to you
I could justify myself
but I'm just not coming through
You're a pill to ease the pain
of all the stupid things I do
I'm an anchor on the line
of a clock that tells the time
that is running out on you
It was cold when i swoke
and the day was halfway done
Nearly spring in San Francisco
but I cannot feel the sun
you were sleeping next to me
but I knew that you'd be gone
If I could give all my love to you
I could justify myself
but I'm just not coming through
You're a pill to ease the pain
of all the stupid things I do
I'm an anchor on the line
of a clock that tells the time
that is running out on you
Take some time before you go
think of mondays coming down
and the people that you knew
The ones that aren't around
you've been fading day to day
I've been moving town to town
If I could give all my love to you
I could justify myself
but I'm just not coming through
You're a pill to ease the pain
of all the stupid things i do
I'm an anchor on the line
of a clock that tells the time
that is running out on you
that is running out on you
that is running out on you
- Mary-ann
you’re better than the world
They took a lot of time
getting it right on this girl
I said Mary-ann
you’re better than the world
They did a lot of things right on this girl
Had a lot of girlfriends
I should have known them
Click your heels and count back from three
Do you want to go back?
You should have known That the butterfly in reverse here is me
Mary-ann
you’re better than the world
They took a lot of time
getting it right on this girl
I said Mary-ann
you’re better than the world
They did a lot of things right on this girl
Where’d you want to go to
with nothing beside you
But webbing and curfews and rain?
And everything that hurts you
Gets stuffed up inside you
Like butterflies with wings
And other perfect things
We go swimming in the sunshine
Dangling from clotheslines
Seperate and fall into me
And did you ever see me ?
Me absolutely ?
Me, but all you, but still me?
Mary-ann you’re better than the world
They took a lot of time getting it right on this girl
I said Maryann you’re better than the world
They did a lot of things right on this girl
did alot of things right on this girl
did alot of things right on this girl
did alot of things right on this girl
- It's 1:30 in the morning
but that's alright by me
Weren 't you just waiting by the phone
I should give a little warning
but I need the things I need
I'm not proud to need a hand
but I just don't understand
So, Why should you come when I call?
I never say nothing at all
why do I go, when I go?
it's leaving me here all alone
You ought to get out on your own
ain't necessarily a bad thing
to believe the things I say
cause you can make yourself feel good
you know it's really not a good thing
to give everything to me
I'm just waiting for the show
cause I got no where to go
So, Why should you come when I call?
I never say nothing at all
why do I go, when I go?
it's leaving me here all alone
you ought to get out on your own
Cause nothing makes me feel so good
gets me high
so I sleep at night
and lets me know that everythings alright
I feel nice
I'm so sorry in the morning
could believe what you believe
I'm used to waking up alone
And if you think about it
Anyone you think about is better love than me
but if you've not fallen quite asleep
I might call tonight
if that's alright...
why should you come when I call?
I never say nothing at all
why do I go, when I go?
it's leaving me here all alone
you ought to get out on your own
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)