Playlist Counting Crows

counting crows - colorblind

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,
Stutter 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.

counting crows - american girls

She comes out on Fridays every time
Stands out in a line
I could've 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've 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 underneath 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
Little shivers shaking me every day
But I could get the same thing anywhere
So if she goes away
Well it's alright and I'm okay
"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 with you, then 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've been anyone you see
I wish it was anyone but me
Theres nothing but pills and ashes under my skin
American girls, all weather & noise
Playing the changes for all of the boys
Holding a candle right up to my hand
Making me feel so incredible
If I made you cry, please tell me why
Cause I'll try again if you let me try
American girls all feathers & cream
Come into bed so edible

counting crows - meet on the ledge

We used to say
That come the day
We'd all be making songs
Or finding better words
These ideas never lasted long

The way is up
Along the road
The air is growing thin
Too many friends who tried
Were blown off this mountain with 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
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 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 my friends
Meet on the ledge
We're gonna meet on the ledge
If you really mean it, it all comes round again

counting crows - sweet home alabama

Big wheels keep on turning carry me home to see my kin
Singing songs about the southland
I miss my family once again and i think it's a sin
Well i heard mr. young sing about her
Well i heard ol' neil put her down
Well i hope neil young will remember
A southern man don't need him around anyhow
Chorus:
Sweet home alabama where the skies are so blue
Sweet home alabama lord i'm coming home to you
In birmingham they love the governor boo-hoo-hoo
Now we all did what we could do
Now watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you tell me true
Chorus:
Here i come alabama
Solo
Now muscle shoals has got the swampers, they've been known to
Pick a song or two
Lord they get me off so much
They pick me up when i'm feelin' blue
Now how about you
Chorus:
Sweet home alabama where the skies are so blue oh sweet home
Sweet home alabama lord i'm coming home to you and the gov'nor's
True
Sweet home alabama where the skies are so blue oh yeah
Sweet home alabama lord i'm coming home to you yeah yeah

counting crows - sundays

Coloured rubbers
And a bedroom set
I wouldn't know
It if it hit me
You take a little step
And then it feels
Like love
I think I better
Get a little of it in me
Give me a kiss
I think it feels
Like love
Give me a kiss
I think it feels
Like sunshine
C'mon baby, light me up
I wanna look
Into your eyes
Until I go blind and

You think
That you can do
Without me
I can't do
Anything at all
You think
That you can do
Without me
But I don't believe
In Sundays
And I don't believe
In anything at all

Your mother make you
In a parking lot
My mother made me
Out of flesh and wire
Try to remember
What you might forget
I try
To remember everything
Try to remember
So you don't disappear
Try to remember
So you don't fade away
Your mother made you
Out of smoke and rain
Your mother made you
In a fire that's faded

You think
That you can do
Without me
I can't do
Anything at all
You think
That you can do
Without me
But I don't believe
In Sundays
And I don't believe
In anything at all

I wanna touch you
For the things I'm losing
I wanna touch you
For my self-respect
Give me a reason
Or I might stop breathing
Give me a reason why
I'm soaking wet
Gotta stop breathing
Cuz the sky is falling
I might go out
And watch
The moon explode
Give me directions
To the highway crossing
I'll go lie
Down in the middle
Of the road

You think
That you can do
Without me
I can't do
Anything at all
You think
Tthat you can do
Without me
But I don't believe
In Sundays
And I don't believe
In anything at all

I don't believe
In Sundays
And I don't believe
In anything at all
I don't believe
In anything at all

counting crows - i m not sleeping

She comes to me at night when i'm sleeping
she comes to me when i'm alone
she comes to me she holds my head when i'm crying
she comes to me she shuts my eyes
she brings me home

but i'm not sleeping anymore

she tells me when you look at me she tells me when you'relying
she tells me when you talk about me she lays beside me on thefloor
she tells me when you're whispering she lies beside me naked
she tells me when you laugh at me and she locks all the doors

but i'm not sleeping anymore

1-2-3-4-5-6-7 am
all alone again
but i've been through all this shit before
spend my nights in self-defense
cry about my innocence
but i ain't all that innocent anymore

i see her on the TV i see her in the movies
i see her in these animals that dance beside my bed
i'll follow you down baby down into this valley
i'll follow you down baby but i won't come up again

but i'm not sleeping anymore

counting crows - mr jones

Sha la la la la la la..... hmm, uh huh...

I was down at the New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with a black-haired flamenco dancer
She dances while his father plays guitar
She's suddenly beautiful
We all want something beautiful
Man I wish I was beautiful
So come dance this silence down through the mornin'
Sha la la la la la la la yeah.. uh huh, yeah...
Cut up, Maria! Show me some of that Spanish dancin'
yeah, but, Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Believe in me
Help me believe in anything
'Cause I wanna be someone who believes
Yeah...

Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales
And we stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you. Ah, no, no, she's looking at me."
Smiling in the bright lights
Coming through in stereo
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely

Well, I'm gonna paint my picture
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful
Yeah, well, you know gray is my favorite color
I felt so symbolic yesterday
If I knew Picasso
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play

Mr. Jones and me look into the future
Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you. I don't think so. She's looking at me."
Standing in the spotlight
I bought myself a gray guitar
When everybody loves me, I'll never be lonely
I'll never be lonely
Son, I'm never gonna be lonely

I wanna be a lion
E-Everybody wants to pass as cats
We all wanna be big big stars, yeah, but we've got different reasons for that
Believe in me 'cause I don't believe in anything
and I, I wanna be someone to believe, to believe, to believe,yeah

Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
"She's perfect for you, Man, there's got to be somebody for me."
I wanna be Bob Dylan
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
When everybody loves you, oh, son, that's just' bout as funky as you can be

Mr. Jones and me staring at the video
When I look at the television, I wanna see me staring right back at me
We all wanna be big stars, but we don't know why and we don't know how
But when everybody loves me, I'll be just' bout as happy as I could be
Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars.

counting crows - accidentally in love

So she said what's the problem baby
What's the problem I don't know
Well maybe I'm in love (love)
Think about it every time
I think about it
Can't stop thinking 'bout it

How much longer will it take to cure this
Just to cure it cause I can't ignore it if it's love (love)
Makes me wanna turn around and face me but I don't know nothing 'bout love

Come on, come on
Turn a little faster
Come on, come on
The world will follow after
Come on, come on
Because everybody's after love

So I said I'm a snowball running
Running down into the spring that's coming all this love
Melting under blue skies
Belting out the sunlight
Shimmering love

Well baby I surrender
To the strawberry ice cream
Never ever end of all this love
Well I didn't mean to do it
But there's no escaping your love

These lines of light may
Mean we're never alone,
Never alone, no, no

Come on, Come on
Move a little closer
Come on, Come on
I want to hear you whisper
Come on, Come on
Settle down inside my love

Come on, come on
Jump a little higher
Come on, come on
If you feel a little lighter
Come on, come on
We were once
Upon a time in love

Accidentally in love[x8]

We're accidentally in

I'm In Love, I'm in Love,
I'm in Love, I'm in Love,
I'm in Love, I'm in Love,
Accidentally in [x2]

Come on, come on
Spin a little tighter
Come on, come on
And the world a little brighter
Come on, come on
Just get yourself inside her

Love ...I'm in love

counting crows - a murder of one

Blue morning, blue morning
Wrapped on strands of fist and bone
Curiousity, Kitten, doesn't mean your on your own
You can look outside your window
He doesn't have to know
We can talk a while Baby
We can take it nice and slow

CHORUS
All your life, is such a shame, shame, shame
All your love, is just a dream, dream, dream

Well
Are you happy when you're sleeping?
Does he keep you safe and warm?
Does he tell you when you're sorry?
Does he tell you when you're wrong?
Well, I've been watching you for hours
It's been years since we were born
We were perfect when we started
I've been wondering where we've gone

CHORUS

Well, I dreamt I saw you walkin'
Up a hillside in the sun
Casting shadows on the winter sky
As you stood there counting crows
One for sorrow, two for joy
three for girls, and four for boys
five for silver, six for gold
seven for the secret never to be told

There's a bird that nests inside you
sleeping underneath your skin
yeh, When you open up your wings to speak
I wish you'd let me in

CHORUS

open up your eyes
you can see the flames, flames, flames
of your wasted life
you should be asha-a-amed

And you don't want to waste your life, Baby
And you don't wanna waste your life. now, Darlin'
You don't wanna waste your life, Baby
You don't wanna waste your life, now, Darlin'
And, You don't wanna waste your life Baby
I said, You don't wanna waste your life now Darlin
You don't wanna waste your life now Baby
Ahh, you don't wanna waste your life now, Darlin

Change, change, change (3 times)

I walk along these hillsides in the summer 'neath the sunshine
I am feathered by the moonlight fallin' down on me
I said I will walk along these hillsides in the summer neath themoonlight
I am feathered by the moonlight falling down on me
I will walk along these hillsides in the summer neath thesunshine
I am feathered by the moonlight fallin' down on me

Change change change (repeat to end)

counting crows - elvis went to hollywood

November promises it seems,
Of broken February dreams
That don't come true
Until you remember me
I don't remember you.
Were you the one who liked to sing?
Or just some other one.
It's strange how hate remains and stays
The same and we're always changing.

We are driving on the ceiling
There are aliens on motorcycles
Riding in the radio
While we destroy the world
I said, oh oh, oh no no
The news is read, the future's dead,
When Elvis went to Hollywood
That's when everything went wrong.

So long goodbye,
It tastes of wedding cakes
And the sound of nursey rhymes
The ghosts of Roderick,
Of Alex Chilten, of Victor Frankenstein
The girl you always loved
The one you have no memory of
It's strange how hate remains
She prayed for rain on the invasion

We are driving on the ceiling
There are aliens on motorcycles
Hiding in the radio,
While we devour the world
I said oh oh, oh no no
The future said, the news is dead
When Elvis went to Hollywood
That's when everything went wrong.

The god of Maine proclaims
The last evacuation of a dream
The gospel screams the sock of movie stars
And girly magazines
Spacemen too, from somewhere far away
You have to say it's strange we prayed in vain,
The rockets came and now we're fading.

We are hiding on the ceiling
There are aliens on motorcycles
Riding from the radio, while they destroy the world.
I said oh oh, oh no no
The paper said, the King is dead
When Elvis went to Hollywood,
That's when everything went wrong.

counting crows - on a tuesday in amsterdam long ago

A picture of Amsterdam
Bare trees under glass
Framed
In the afternoon light
Of a winter long past
When I was a raiser
To Dublin I'd roam
She was a bareback rider
Some miles from home
Come back to me
She's a carnival driver
Hung in the sky
Cutting through time
Like a memory
Strung on a wire
The color of anything

Fades in the air
But she is the film
Of a book of the story
Of the smell of her hair
Come back to me
When every thing's over
And every thing's clear
When everyone's older
And no one is here
I try to remember
A girl on a wire
Tumbling and diving
Above Stephen's Green
Like a kite on the air
Come back to me

counting crows - le ballet d or

Wasted time
Running scared
When all of love needs
Is to be believed in
All those springs
Come and gone
Passed like trains
And box cars, leaving
But I would be lying
If I didn't tell you
The truth
They will leave you
They will leave you

So come now
Let's go dance
To the silent song
Come now
Leave your damage
Behind and gone
Some are lost to you

Wasted time running scared
All I need is to believe in
Something like a summer
And I know you need somebody
Just like I do
And all of these foxes
Go down
In there barrel to hide
They will leave you
They will leave you behind

So come now
Let's go dance
To the silent song
Come now
Leave damage
Behind and gone

So come now
Let's go down
To the dance floor
Come now
Lose your mind
In Le Ballet Dor

Some are lost
Some are leaving
Some are lost
Some are leaving
But I'm not gone at all
I'm not going
Anywhere at all
Some are lost to you
Wasted time
Running scared now
Autumns fire
Is ashes on the breeze
And it spends away
Like dust on pearls
As winter comes
To usher in the evening
All of these drummers
Go stand on
The hillside alone
They will leave you
They will leave you
At home

So come home now
Let's go dance
To the silent song
Come now
Leave your damage
Behind and gone
So come now
Let's go down
To eh dance floor
Come now
Loose your mind
And look badly gone
So come now
Come now
Let's get out
While the getting's good
Just come now
There's no one
Left in the neighborhood

counting crows - august everything after

They're wakin' up Mama 'cause everybody else has got to go
She makes a little action with her head. Rolls over
And she says she's gonna sleep for a couple of minutes more
I've said "I'm sorry" to Mama for the cold heart
I've said "I'm sorry", by now, at least once to just
about everyone
She says, "I've forgotten what I'm supposed to do
And it slips my mind what I'm supposed to say?
I'm getting older and older and older
And always a little farther out of the way
You look into her eyes and it's more than you hear
In August and Everything After, you get a little closer

I stumbled into Washington Square just as the sun broke free
I walked across the lawn to the cathedral
And lay down in the shadow of St. Augustine
I'm just one of three late model children waiting for the king
But there ain't no sign of Elvis in San Fransisco
It's just me, and I'm playing this rock and roll thing
She wants to be just like me
I want every damn thing I can see.
One day you're Daddy's little angel,
Next day you're everything he wanted you to be
They dress you up in white satin
And they give you your very own pair of wings
In August and Everything After, I'm after everything.

counting crows - round here

Step out the front door like a ghost
Into the fog where no one notices
The contrast of white on white.

And in between the moon and you
The angels get a better view
Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.

I walk in the air between the rain,
Through myself and back again.
Where? I don't know

Maria says she's dying.
Through the door, I hear her crying
Why? I don't know

Round here we always stand up straight
Round here something radiates

Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand
She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis
She walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land
Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus
She parks her car outside of my house
Takes her clothes off,
Says she's close to understanding Jesus
She knows she's more than just a little misunderstood
She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous

Round here we're carving out our names
Round here we all look the same
Round here we talk just like lions
But we sacrifice like lambs
Round here she's slipping through my hands

Sleeping children got to run like the wind
Out of the lightning dream
Mama's little baby better get herself in
Out of the lightning

She says, "It's only in my head."
She says, "Shhh...I know it's only in my head."

But the girl on the car in the parking lot
Says: "Man, you should try to take a shot
Can't you see my walls are crumbling?"

Then she looks up at the building
And says she's thinking of jumping.
She says she's tired of life;
She must be tired of something.

Round here she's always on my mind
Round here I got lots of time
Round here we're never sent to bed early
Nobody makes us wait
Round here we stay up very very late

I can't see nothing, nothing
Round here
Catch me if I'm falling
Catch me if I'm falling
Catch me cause I'm falling down on you

I said I'm under the gun
Round here
Oh man, I said I'm under the gun
Round here
I can't see nothing, nothing
Round here

counting crows - suffocate

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 ofwings..."
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...

counting crows