- If I could make it rain today
and wash away this sunny day down to the gutter
I would
just to get a change of pace
Things are getting worse, but I feel a lot better
and that's all that really matters to me
Well, Amy hit the atmosphere
Caught herself a rocket ride out of this gutter
and she's never coming back I fear
Anytime it rains she just feels a lot better
and that's all that really matters to me
We've waited so long
for someone to take us back home
it just takes so long
Meanwhile all the days go drifting away
and some of us sink like a stone
waiting for mothers to come
There has to be a change I'm sure
Today was just a day fading into another
and that can't be what a life is for
And anything she said well she feels a lot better
and that's all that really matters to me
We've waited so long
for someone to take us back home
It just takes so long
Meanwhile the days go drifting away
and some of us sink like a stone
waiting for mothers to come
I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know
I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know
All I really know is I wanna know
And all I really know is I don't wanna know
(repeated 6 times)
- Staring out of his window as the world rushes by
Arthur Robinson closes the glass and replies,
"I dream of ballerinas and I don't know why?
But I see Cadillac's sailing.
I was born on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay
Maryland and Virginia have faded away
And I keep thinking tomorrow is coming today
so I am endlessly waiting
The comet is coming between
me and the girl who could make it all clean
Out there in the shadow of the modern machine
walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream
Carrie's down in her basement all toe shoes and twinned
With the girl in the mirror who spins when she spins,
From where you think you will end up to the state that you’re in
Your reflection approaches and then recedes again. Yeah
And the comet is coming between
me and the girl who could make it all clean
Out there in the shadow of the modern machines
Walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream
I have dreamed of a black car that shimmers and drives
down the length of the evening to the carnival’s side
In a house where regret is a carousel ride
We are spinning and spinning and spinning
There’s a hole in the ceiling down through which I fell
There’s a girl in the basement coming out of her shell
And there are people who will say they knew me so well
I may not go to heaven..
I hope you go to hell!
The comet is coming between
me and the girl who could make it all clean
Out there in the shadow of a modern machine
walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream
In his dream.
St. Robinson in his dream.
Some people are never quite what they seem
Come on baby come on darling
Lets just Get into my car and drive. She says I always do the same things over and over
- Well I woke up in mid afternoon cause that's when it all hurts the most
I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the host
If dreams are like movies then memories are films about ghosts
You can never escape, you can only move south down the coast
Well I am an idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame
I am an acrobat swinging trapezes through circles of flame
If you've never stared off into the distance then your life is a shame
And though I'll never forget your face sometimes I can't remember my name
Hey, Mrs. Potter, don't cry
Hey, Mrs. Potter, I know why
But, hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me
Well there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing
And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings
And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to ring
And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything
Or the elephants will get out and forget to remember what you said
Oh and the ghosts of the tilt-o-whirl will linger inside of your head
Oh and the ferris wheel junkies will spin there forever instead
When I see you, a blanket of stars covers me in my bed
Hey, Mrs. Potter, don't go, I said
Hey, Mrs. Potter, I don't know, but
Hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me
Well all the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep
And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep
All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep
Hey, I can bleed as well as anyone but I need someone to help me sleep
So I throw my hand into the air and it swims in the beams
It's just a brief interruption of the swirling dust sparkle jet stream
Well I know I don't know you and you're probably not what you seem
Aw, but I'd sure like to find out
so why don't you climb down off that movie screen
Hey, Mrs. Potter, don't turn
Hey, Mrs. Potter, I burn for you
Hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me
When the last king of Hollywood shatters his glass on the floor
and orders another
Well, I wonder what he did that for
That's when I know that I have to get out cause I have been there before
So I gave up my seat at the bar and I head for the door. Yeah.
We drove out to the desert just to lie down beneath this bowl of stars
We stand up in the Palace, like it's the last of the great pioneer town bars
Aw, we shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitars
Well, you can see a million miles tonight
but you can't get very far
Aw, you can see a million miles tonight
but you can't get very far
Hey, Mrs. Potter, I won't touch and
Hey, Mrs. Potter, it's not much but
Hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me (3X)
The devil's in the dreamin'
He tells you I'm not sleepin'
in my motel room alone
With nothing to believe in
you dive into the traffic rising up
and it's so quiet
you're surprised and then you wake
For all the things you're losing
you might as well resign yourself to try and make a change
And I'm going down to Hollywood
They're gonna make a movie from the things
that they find crawling around my brain
I wish I was a girl
so that you could believe me
and I could shake this static every time I try to sleep
I wish for all the world
that I could say
Hey, Elizabeth, you know I'm doing all right
these days
The devil's in the dreamin'
You see yourself descending
from the building to the ground
And you watch the sky receding
and you spin to see the traffic
rising up and it's so quiet
and you're surprised and then you wake
For all the things I'm losing
I might as well resign myself to try and make a change
And I'm going down to Hollywood
They're gonna make a movie from the things
that they find crawling round my brain
I wish I was a girl
so that you could believe me
and I could shake this static every time I try to sleep
I wish for all the world
that I could say
Hey, Elizabeth, you know I'm doing all right
these days
And in one of these dreams
you forgive me
It makes me think of the bad decisions
that keep you at home
How could anyone else have changed
But these are wrong conclusions
that leave you alone
How could everyone rearrange
How could everyone else have changed
What I see
I believe
For all the things I'm losing
I might as well resign myself to try and make a change
And I'm going down to Hollywood
They're gonna make a movie from the things
that they find crawling round my brain
(chorus) Well I can't sleep at night (4 times)
- Such a life
Such a life
Such a life
I'm a comet .. honestly
I don't know why"
All my friends got flowers in their eyes
but I got none this season
All of last year's blooms have gone and died
Time doesn't give a reason
Hey baby do you ask yourself
sometimes what you need to be forgiven
Everything that you ever done wrong
is the reason that I'm driven
straight to you
Waiting here for you
Wanting to tell you
how I get my ends and my beginnings mixed up, too
just the way you do
I thought if I told you
You might want to stay for just another day or two
It's just like answers
that come in small packages that go in the mail
Waiting for the trains that just never come
Beginning to believe in the disappearing nature of
the people we have been
We have begun to change
into the worst kind of people
So unkind Oh apologies
No apologies
This apology doesn't describe
the way it feels to feel for you
Waiting here for you
Wanting to tell you
how I find myself
slowly disappearing too
just the way you do
I thought if I told you
you might want to help me to remain with you
I just wanna stay for a little while
I wanna stay a little while
Oh, come on (4 times)
There's a night life falling down on me
I just feel like a change
Beneath the sun in the summer a sea of flowers
won't bloom without the rain
But oh this desert life
This high life
Here at the dying end of the day
I wasn't made for the scene, baby
But I was made in this scene, baby
It's just my way
I don't wanna go home alone
I wanna come on home to you
Waiting here for you
Wanting to tell you
how I line my sky with all the silver I can use
just the way you do
I thought if I told you
you might want to stay for just another day or two
(whispering-like)
Isn't that just like
disappearing into the sum of yourself
and the person you are disappearing into it's like one plus one equals nothing at all
one plus two equals nothing at all
one plus me equals nothing at all
one plus you equals one plus you equals you equals
you and you and you and nothing at all
- She is trapped inside a month of gray
And they take a little every day
She is a victim of her own responses
shackled to a heart that wants to settle
and then runs away
It's a sin to be fading endlessly
Yeah, but she's alright with me
She is leaving on a walkaway
She is leaving me in disarray
In the absence of a place to be
she stands there looking back at me
hesitates, and then turns away
She'll change so suddenly
She's just like mercury
Yeah, but she's alright with me
Keep some sorrow in your hearts and minds
for the things that die before their time
For the restlessly abandoned homes
the tired and weary rambler's bones
and stay beside me where I lie
She's entwined in me
Crazy as can be
Yeah, but she's alright with me
- All dressed up
no place to go
Hey monkey, when you gonna show your face around me?
I know all the wrongs and rights
and I just want a little light to fall on me
Hey monkey, where you been?
This lonely spiral I've been in
Hey monkey, when can we begin?
Hey monkey, where you been?
We'll I'm all messed up
that's nothing new
Hey monkey, when you open up your blue eyes
I don't know if I'm wide awake or dreaming
but all I ever need is everything
Hey monkey, where you been?
This lonely spiral I've been in
Hey monkey, when can we begin?
Hey monkey, where you been?
Just get the world off your shoulders
and close your pretty blue eyes
Hey monkey, what's life without an occasional surprise?
Got no where but home to go
Got Ben Folds on my radio right now
I'm in trouble for the things I need
Hey monkey don't you want to be needed too?
Hey monkey, where you been?
This lonely spiral I've been in
Hey monkey, when can we begin?
Hey monkey, where you been?
- Gonna get back to basics
Guess I'll start it up again
I'm falling from the ceiling
You're falling from the sky now and then
Maybe you were shot down in pieces
Maybe I slipped in between
But we were gonna be the wildest people they ever hoped to see
yes you and me
So why'd you come home to this sleepless town
It's a lifetime commitment
recovering the satellites
All anybody really wants to know is...
When you gonna come down
Your mother recognizes all your desperate displays
and she watches as her babies drift violently away
'til they see themselves in telescopes
Well listen do you see yourself in me?
We're such crazy babies, little monkey
God we're so fucked up, you and me
So why'd you come home to this faithless town
where we make a lifetime commitment
to recovering the satellites
And all anybody really wants to know is...
when are you gonna come down
She sees shooting stars and comets tail
She's got heaven in her eyes
She says I don't need to be an angel
but I'm nothing if I'm not this high
But we only stay in orbit
for a moment of time
And then you're everybody's satellite
I wish that you were mine
I wish that you were mine
So why'd you come home to this angels town
It's a lifetime decision
recovering the satellites
everybody really knows for sure...
that you're gonna come down
that you're gonna come down
- Margery's dreaming of the middle of the day
Tiyuri to win
perfect Dozen to place
Money is the matter that's been on her mind
Time ticks by her one race at a time
She's trying to be a good girl
and give 'em what they want
but Margery's dreaming of horses
Looking at a green sky
Sun like a red eye
Bright blue horses are the fortune she lives by
She's tired and lonely
scared and depressed
Her visions of one day go racing the next
She's trying to be a good girl
And give 'em what they want
but Margery's dreaming of horses
Margery doesn't say anything all the way home
So afraid she'll awake to find she's all alone
Margery's wingspans all feathers and coke cans, and
TV dinners and letters she won't send, and
Every race night is shot through with sunlight
Trying to hit the big one one last time tonight for...
drunken fathers and stupid mothers and
boys who can't tell one girl from another
So she takes her pills
careful and round
one of these days she's gonna throw the whole bottle down
But she's trying to be a good girl
And give 'em what they want
but Margery's dreaming of..
.
Trying to be a good girl
And give 'em what they want
but Margery's dreaming of horses
- Miller's angels in black and white
welcome everyone in
Children dreaming of wrong and right
wrapped in grace and in sin
They come out of the blue sky
They come out of the blue
They come out of the blue sky
But you never know where they're gonna go
Hey Romeo
Miller's fingers are traveling down the length of her thigh
But Miller's mind is still wandering
staring up at the sky
They come out of the blue sky
They come out of the blue
They come out of the blue sky
But you never know where they're gonna go
Hey Romeo
you never know where they're gonna go
Hey Romeo
Don't, don't come around
Miller's angels are hovering in between the earth and the sun
In the shadow of god's unwavering love
I am a fortunate son
They come out of the blue sky
They come out of the blue
THey come out of the blue sky
but you never know where they're gonna go
hey romeo
but you never know where they're gonna go
Hey Romeo
Can't you hear me cause I'm screaming
didn't I go outside yesterday
don't wake me please don't wake me
cause I was dreaming
and I might just stay inside again today
I don't go out much these days
yes sometimes I stay inside all day
Won't leave me leave me leave me leave me slone
Won't you leave me leave me leave me alone
Won't you leave me leave me leave me alone
Won't you leave me leave me leave me alone
Won't you leave me alone
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)