Counting Crows

"I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less than we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal. If you don't find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow."

"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."

"Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand says she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis"

"She parks her car outside my house and takes her clothes off Says she's close to understanding Jesus She knows she's more that 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 better run like the wind Out of the lightning dream Mama's little baby better get herself in Out of the lightning"

"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."

"Omaha Somewhere in middle America Getting right to the heart of matters It's the heart that matters more I think you better turn your ticket in And get your money back at the door"

"Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales 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."

"We all want something beautiful. Man, I wish I was beautiful."

"I want to be a lion Everybody wants to pass as cats We all want to be big big stars, yeah, but we got different reasons for that Believe in me because I don't believe in anything and I want to be someone to believe."

"Mr. Jones and me staring at the video When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why and we don't know how But when everybody loves me, I'm going to be just about as happy as can be Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars...."

"It does not bother me to say this isn't love Because if you don't want to talk about it then it isn't love And I guess I'm going to have to live with that But I'm sure there's something in a shade of grey, Something in between, And I can always change my name If that's what you mean"

"Every time she sneezes I believe it's love."

"When I think of heaven (Deliver me in a black-winged bird) I think of flying down into a sea of pens and feathers and all other instruments of faith and sex and God In the belly of a black-winged bird Don't try to feed me I've been here before and I deserve a little more"

"I belong in the service of the Queen I belong anywhere but in between She's been crying, I've been thinking And I am the Rain King"

"Hey, I only want the same as anyone Henderson is waiting for the sun Oh, it seems night endlessly begins and ends After all the dreaming I come home again"

"Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street Cross the water, home through the town Past the shadows that fall down wherever we meet Pretty soon now, I won't come around"

"I'm almost drowning in her sea She's nearly fallen to her knees"

"Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street Where all the bodies hang on the air If she remembers, she hides it whenever we meet Either way now, I don't really care Cause I'm gone from there"

"These train conversations are passing me by I don't have nothin' to say You get what you pay for, but I just had no Intention of living this way"

"I dreamt I saw you walking, on a hillside in the snow. Casting shadows on the winter sky; as you stood there counting crows."

"I walk along these hillsides in the summer 'neath the sunshine; I am feathered by the moonlight falling down on me."

"All my sins... I said that I would pay for them if I could come back to you All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming I dream of Michelangelo when I'm lying in my bed Little angels hang above my head and read me like an open book"

"Waiting for the moon to come and light me up inside And I am waiting for the telephone to tell me I'm alive"

"Daylight fading Come and waste another year All the the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn When we see the early signs that daylight's fading, we leave just before it's gone"

"I will wait for you in Baton Rouge I'll miss you down in New Orleans I'll wait for you while she slips in something comfortable And I'll miss you when I'm slipping in between If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain And if you're the queen of california Baby I am the king of the rain And I said Goodnight Elisabeth"

"Children in bloom Cooking in the sun Waiting for a room of our own Leave my sister alone Cause she don't deserve this She is a flower And I am a flower And we are all alone"

"Gotta get out on my own Gotta get up from this waiting, waiting at home Gotta get out of this sunlight It's melting my bones I gotta get up from this slumber Just get myself home"

"Where's the funhouse this year The fairground's deserted and all the skies don't seem as near, but Nicole's my oldest friend But the altar is empty and she'll never be a little girl again"

"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"

"So she takes her pills Careful and round One of these days she's gonna throw the whole bottle down"

"A long December and there's reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leavin' Now the days go by so fast"

"The smell of hospitals in winter And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls All at once you look across a crowded room To see the way that light attaches to a girl And it's one more day up in the canyons And it's one more night in Hollywood If you think you might come to California... I think you should"

"Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m. And talked a little while about the year I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower, Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself to hold on to these moments as they pass"

""I gotta rush away," she said, "I been to Boston before. And anyways, This change I been feeling Doesn't make the rain fall." No big differences these days Just the same old walkaways. And someday I'm gonna stay, But not today."

"She sat right down on the sofa; I said,"Where have you been? I've been waiting for you. Cause last night I had something so good These days get so long and I got nothing to do I been hanginaround this town on the corner"

"We spend all day getting sober. Just hiding from daylight Watching TV We just look a lot better in the blue light Well, you know I gotta get out. But I'm stuck so tight Weighed by the chains that keep me... Hanginaround this town on the corner"

"If dreams are like movies then memories are films about ghosts"

"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 in the distance, then your life is a shame And though I'll never forget your face, sometimes I can't remember my name"

"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"

"And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings."

"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 fine."

"For all the things you're losing You might as well resign yourself to try and make a change I'm going down to Hollywood They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find crawling round my brain"

"On certain Sundays in November When the weather bothers me I empty drawers of other summers Where my shadows used to be And 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"

"You put your girl up on a pedestal Then you wait for her to fall I put my summers 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"

"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"

"The gentleman 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 was cold when I awoke and the day was halfway done nearly spring in San Francisco and I still can't feel the sun"

"Take some time before you go Think of Mondays coming down for the people that you knew and the one's that aren't around"