- (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.
- (originally by Travis)
Never see you coming around
They know they got their heads screwed on
I'm standing in the middle of town
I know I might never come home
Just standing where I am with all the people passing by me
The sound of all these passers-by mixed in with the bus and motor-car
I must be sure these are the signs
Cos I've been here a million times before
Just tell me when it's coming around, coming around
I think I see you coming to town, hunting you down
Bringing you round
Tell me if I'm bringing you down
Cos I was fine till you came along
You tell me that the tears of a clown cloud
That I'm confusing while abusing my mind
So far away I wanna be
That's not as close to you and me
The things they call our destiny
Now why do you have to pick on me at all?
My walls are coming down
Just tell me when it's coming around, coming around
I think I see you coming to town, hunting you down
Coming around
Just tell me when it's coming around, coming around
I think I see you coming to town, dragging you down
Just tell me when it's coming around, coming around
I think I see you coming to town, just dragging you down
It's coming around
- (originally by The Faces)
Poor old granddad I laughed at all his words
I thought he was a bitter man
He spoke of women's ways
They'll trap you then they use you & before you even know
For love is blind and you're far too kind
Don't ever let it show
I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was younger
I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was stronger
The can-can such a pretty show
will steal your heart away
But backstage back on earth again
The dressing rooms are grey
They come on strong and it ain't too long
For they make you feel a man
But love is blind and you soon will find
you're just a boy again
When you want her lips, you get her cheek
Makes you wonder where you are
if you want some more then she's fast asleep
Leaves you twinkling with the stars
Poor young grandson there's nothing I can say
You'll have to learn, just like me
And that's the hardest way, ooh la la
I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was younger
I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was stronger
- (originally by Dawes)
Addressing a prayer into the air
In the shadows of satellites
So nobody hurt loves not for words
In a world at the end of its night
Oh everyone that left me
They’re so easy to forget
Cause I haven’t let my failures hit me yet.
Your voice on the phone the blood from a stone
These tears that I can’t understand
If I could heal would give I don’t feel
Or by silently giving my hand
Well I’m sure I never loved you
That would be to fierce and too correct
But I haven’t let my failures hit me yet
It made my demon reveal its hour of living
And may he not leave me broken
May he leave me broken
So where ever I’m bound my ear to the ground
And my thoughts on there way back to you
As eternities slave, well you can write that on my grave
When I’m finished resisting its truth
While I’m shaking hands with darkness
Its where the warm wind that I admit
That I haven’t let my failures hit me yet
Yet while I’m shaking hands with darkness
It is where the warm wind that I admit
That I haven’t let my failures hit me yet
- (originally by Gram Parsons)
Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich
and welcome me back to town
Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlor
and I'll show you how it all went down
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
and a good saloon in every single town
Oh, and I remember something you once told me
and I'll be damned if it did not come true
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
and they all lead me straight back home to you
`Cause I headed west to grow up with the country
Across those prairies with the waves of grain
And I saw my devil,
and I saw my deep blue sea
And I thought about a calico bonnet from
Cheyenne to Tennessee
We flew straight across that river bridge,
last night at half past two
The switchman wave his lantern goodbye
and so long as we went rolling through
Billboards and truckstops pass by the grievous angel
And now I know just what I have to do
And the man on the radio won't leave me alone
He wants to take my money for something
that I've never been shown
And I saw my devil,
and I saw my deep blue sea
And I thought about a calico bonnet from
Cheyenne to Tennessee
The news I could bring I met up with the king
On his head an amphetamine crown
He talked about unbuckling that old Bible belt
And lighted out for some desert town
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
And a good saloon in every single town
Oh, but I remembered something you once told me
and I'll be damned if it did not come true
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
and they all lead me straight back home to you
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
And they all lead me straight back home to you
- (originally by Tender Mercies)
She had four white stallions coming up around the bend
Four strong angels at her command to send
Four more seasons, for all thats broken to mend
I got four good reasons why I cant go back there again
She had skin like a statue, milky white and pure
Carved by an artist who's hand is demure
Got a mind like a sabre
Razor sharp and sure
God how I hate myself for still wanting her
Tell me its nicer dreaming, visions soft and sure
No way to find theres nothing left to me and her
Nothing more but a heart still at war
She had four white stallions coming up around the bend
Four strong angels already sent
Four more seasons for all thats broken to mend...
- (originally by Sordid Humor)
Jumpin Jesus my oh my
he's got a great big bottle of sunshine
Jumpin Jesus why oh why
take the time to get inside
to get inside
So what's a wall with so much yellow for?
I don't know what it's for
So what's a wall has so much yellow for?
I don't know what it's for
Jumpin Jesus my oh my
he's got a great big bottle of sunshine
Jumpin Jesus why oh why
take the time to get inside
to get inside get inside get inside get inside get inside
Odessa in desert he lives with his life
and his child on a house boat
Yea he likes sunflowers and big picture frames and vangoes
Jumpin Jesus my oh my
he's got a great big bottle of sunshine
Jumpin Jesus why oh why
take the time to get inside
to get inside get inside get inside get inside get inside
na na na na na na na na
lala la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la laaaaa laaaa laaaa
- (originally by Bob Dylan)
Clouds so swift
Rain won't lift
Gate won't close
Railings froze
Get your mind off wintertime
You ain't goin' nowhere
Oo-ee! Ride me high
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's gonna come
Oh no, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair!
I don't care
How many letters they sent
Morning came and morning went
Pick up your money
And pack up your tent
You ain't goin' nowhere
Oo-ee! Ride me high
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's gonna come
Oh no, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair!
Buy me a flute
And a gun that shoots
Tailgates and substitutes
Strap yourself
To the tree with roots
You ain't goin' nowhere
Oo-ee! Ride me high
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's gonna come
Oh no, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair!
Genghis Khan
He could not keep
All his kings
Supplied with sleep
We'll climb that hill no matter how steep
Just as soon as we get the hell up to it
And Everybody says
Whoo-ee! Ride me high
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's gonna come
Oh, no are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair!
- (originally by Big Star)
Years ago, my heart was set to live, oh
and I've been trying hard against unbelievable odds
It gets so hard in times like now to hold on
But guns they wait to be stuck by, at my side is GodAnd there ain't no one goin' to turn me 'round
Ain't no one goin' to turn me 'round
There's people around who tell you that they know
And places where they send you, and it's easy to goThey'll zip you up and dress you down and stand you in a row
just hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
But you know you don't have to, you can just say no
I've been built up and trusted, broke down and busted
But they'll get theirs and we will get ours if you can
Years ago my heart was set to live, oh
but I've been trying hard against strong odds
It gets so hard at times like now to hold on
Well, I'll fall if I don't fight, and at my side is God
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)