- On certain Sundays in November
When the weather bothers me
I empty drawers of other summer's
Where my shadows used to be
She is standing by the water
As her smile begins to curl
In this or any other summer
She is something all together different
Never just an ordinary girl
And in the evenings on Long Island
When the colors start to fade
She wears a silly yellow hat
That someone gave her when she stayed
I didn't think that she returned it
We left New York in a whirl
Time expands and then contracts
When you are spinning
In the grips of someone
Who is not an ordinary girl
And when you sleep
You find your mother in the night
But she stays just out of sight
So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming
And when you wake the morning covers you with light
And it makes you feel alright
But it's just the same hard candy
You're remembering again
You send your lover off to China
Then you wait for her to call
You put your girl up on a pedestal
Then you wait for her to fall
I put my summer's back in a letter
And I hide it from the world
All the regrets you can't forget
Are somehow pressed upon a picture
In the face of such an ordinary girl
And when you sleep
You find your mother in the night
But she fades just out of sight
So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming
And when you wake the morning showers you with light
And it makes you feel alright
But it's just the same hard candy
You're remembering again
(Again 4X)
It's just the same hard candy
You're remembering again
(Again 4X)
And it's just the same hard candy
You're remembering again
Go ask her to come around
And see me late after dark
Don't ask me to come around
Then wait to if there's a spark
(3X)
- If anything
it should have been
a better thing
From underneath you
staring at the ceiling
There’s another world
of chocolate bars and baseball cards
That hides inside of all
this tension that I’m feeling
But It’s all inside of you
Yeah, it’s all inside of you
Surprise surprise
I miss your hair, you miss my eyes
And all this solitude
is my confidence eroding
So we slide inside of
someone’s mouth and someone’s eyes
Until there’s a sound
of something intimate exploding
But it's all inside of you
Yeah, it’s all inside of you
(3X)
I wish that I was anesthetized
and sterilized And then you wouldn’t have this evidence congealing
Surprise surprise,
another pair of lips and eyes
And that is the consequence
of actually feeling
It was all inside of you
(4X)
- She comes out on Fridays every time
Stands out in a line
I could have been anyone she'd seen
She waits another week to fall apart
She couldn’t make another day
I wish it was anyone but me
It could have been anyone you see
She had something breakable just under her skin
American girls all weather & noise
Playing the changes for all of the boys
Holding a candle up to my hand
Making me feel so incredible
She comes out of closets every night
But then she locks herself away
Where she could keep everything from me
I could have been anyone you see
She’s nothing but porcelain under-neath her skin
American girls all weather and noise
Playing the changes for all of the boys
Holding a candle right up to my hand
Making me feel so incredible
Little shivers shaking me everyday
But I could get this same thing anywhere
So if she goes away
well it's alright and I'm ok
hey, she said come back again tonight
I said I might I might I might
She said well that's alright
If it's alright, it's alright with you
If it's alright if it's alright with me
I waited for an hour last Friday night
She never came around
She took almost everything from me
I’m going through my closets
Trying on her clothes, almost everyday
I could have been anyone you see
I wish it was anyone but me
Theres nothing but pills and ashes under my skin
American girls all weather and noise
Playing the changes for all of the boys
Holding a candle right up to my hand
Making me feel so incredible
If I make you cry please tell me why
I can try again if you ask me to try
American girls all feathers and cream
come into bed so edible
American girls oh
American girls
(2X oh 4X)
American girls oh
American girls
(2X oh 4X)
You make me cry
(5X)
Hey Miss American girls
- Fading everything to black and blue
You look a lot like you'd
Shatter in the blink of an eye
You keep sailing right on through
Every time you say you're learning
You just look a lot like me
Pale under the blistering sky
White and red
Black and blue
You’ve been waiting a long time
You’ve been waiting a long time
To fall down on your knees
Cut your hands
Cut yourself until you bleed
Fall asleep next to me
Wait for everyone to go away
And in a dimly lit
room where you’ve got nothing to hide
Say your goodbyes
Tell yourself we’ll read
a note that says
I’m sorry everyone
I’m tired of feeling nothing goodbye
Wash your face
Dry your eyes
Cause you’ve been waiting a long time
You’ve been waiting a long long time
To fall down on your knees
Cut your hands
Cut yourself until you bleed
But fall asleep next to me
And Have a dream I’m falling down
On my face
I Scrape my knees
I Scrape my hands until they bleed
Cause you're fast asleep next to me
(Next to me 3X)
- I Guess I think I feel alright
You come circling through the light
The skyline baby is bright tonight
What more perfect rendezvous?
The sundown paints the shadows through
the Daylight, Amy, on what we do
It looks like darkness to me
Drifting down into Miami
Can I say
"I wish that this weather would never leave"?
It just gets hard to believe
That God sent this angel
to watch over me
Oh my angel,
she don’t receive my calls
Says I’m to dumb to ...(fuck)
To dumb to fight
To dumb to save
Well, maybe I don’t need no angel at all
It looks like darkness to me
Drifting down into Miami
Miami
She could pull the sunlight through me
Coming down, into Miami
Miami
Make a circle in the sand
Make a halo with your hands
I'll Make a place for you to land
The bus is running, it’s time to leave
The summer’s gone, so are we
So come on baby, let’s go shut it down
in New Orleans.
Come on baby, lets go shut it down
In new orleans
Come on Baby, come on baby
lets go shut it down, in new orleans.
Come on
(6X)
Lets go shut it down
in New Orleans
Come on baby
Come on baby
Lets go shut it down
I get so nervous - I'm shaking
It's so I got no pride at all
It gets so bad butI just keep coming back for more
Guess I just get off on that stuffI'm thinking about taking some time
I'm thinkin about leavin soon
I got some things I can't tell anyone
I got some things I just can't say
They're the kinda things that no oneknows about just need somebody to talk to me
I'm thinking about leaving tomorrow
I'm thinking about being on my own
Think I've been wasting my timeI'm thinking about getting out
I'm thinking about getting out
In all this time
the bottom line you dont know how much I feel
You say you see but I dont agree.
Dont know - dont know how I feel.
Just trying to get myself some gravityYou're just trying to get me to say.
Sometimes I sit here
looking down upon Los Angeles
Sometimes I'm floating awayThinkin about breaking myself
I'm thinking about getting back home
I think I've been waiting way to longI'm thinking about getting out
I'm thinking about getting out
I'm thinking about getting out
She sat right down on the sofa
Says where have you been?
I been waiting for you
Cause last nightI had something so good
These days get so long
and I got nothing to do
I been hanginaroundthis town on the corner
I been bummin' around
this old town so long
I been hanginaroundthis town on the corner
I been bummin' around
this old town for way too long
We spend all day getting sober
just hiding from daylightwatching tv
We just look a lot better in the blue light
Well you know I gotta get out
Well I'm stuck so tight weighed by the chains that keep meI been hanginaround
this town on the corner
I been bummin' around
this old town so longI been hanginaround
this town on the corner
I been bummin' around
this old town for way too longThis girl listens to the band playShe says where have you been?
I been lying right here on the floor
(right here on the floor)Well I got all this time to be waiting
for what is mine
to be hating
what I amafter the love has faded
Hanginaround this town on a corner
I been bummin' around this old town so long
I been hanginaround this town on a cornerI been bummin' around this old town for way way way way way too long
way way way way too long
way way way way too long
way way way way too long(live insert) oh my god i say
get up real early in the morning
don't get up 'till the afternoon
Son, I see the day is dawning?
(she said well get up get dressed get out)
It's almost half past noon?
- I am colorblind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am
Taffy stuck, tongue tied
Stuttered shook and uptight
Pull me out from inside I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am...fine
I am covered in skin
No one gets to come in
Pull me out from inside
I am folded, and unfolded, and unfolding
I am colorblind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am...fine
I am.... fine
I am fine
- All I want is something good
it gets harder every time
She is leaving here tonight
take a breath
take your time
spread your wings and rise
Make a mark upon the wall
Paint your face and pass the time
Close your eyes as she ascends
Hold your breath and ease your mind
forty thousand times
Time ...fades into the night
They descend and then they climb
Feathers falling through the night
Have you seen Ohio rise?
It has been four days and nights
All I want is something fine
It gets harder every time
She is sleeping far away
Take a breath
take your time
spread your wings and rise
Rise into the black Ohio skies
They descend and then they climb
Feathers falling through the night
Have you seen ohio rise
It has been four days and nights
- Thought I might get a rocket ride
when I was a child
but it was a lie
that I told myself when I needed something good
At 17 had a better dream
Now I'm 33 and it isn't me
But I'd think of something better if I could
All my friends and lovers
will leave me behind
and I'm still looking for a girl
One way or another
I'm just hoping to find a way
to put my feet out in the world
Caught some grief from a falling leaf
as she tumbled down on to the dirty ground
And said I should have put her back there if I could
Well everyone needs a better day
and I'm trying to find me a better way
To get through the things I do and the things I should
All my friends and lovers
they leave me alone
to try to have a little fun
One way or another
I just wish I had known
to go out walking in the sun
to find out if you were the one
Does it make you wanna come a little closer now?
and did you want to dance with me?
Did you wanna hum a little harder now?
Can you see her?
waiting there
Can you see her?
because I'm almost there
Can you see her
waiting there for someone like me
Well all you want is a beauty queen
but not a superstar
but everybody's dream machine
All you want is a place to lay your head
You go to sleep dreamin' how you would
be a different kind if you thought you could
But you come awake the way you are instead
All my friends and lovers
they shine like the sun
Well I just turn and walk away
One way or another
I'm not comin' undone
I'm just waiting for the day
All my friends
Ah
All my friends
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Ah ah
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)