Turn It Off Then Back on Again It Crows

Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows at EMC Globe 2010

Counting Crows are an American rock ring from Berkeley, California, formed in 1991. The band consists of Adam Duritz (lead vocals, piano), David Bryson (guitar), Charlie Gillingham (accordion, keyboards), Dan Vickrey (lead guitar), David Immerglück (guitar, banjo, mandolin), Jim Bogios (drums) and Millard Powers (bass).

Song lyrics [edit]

All tracks written by Adam Duritz unless otherwise indicated.

August and Everything Subsequently (1993) [edit]

• Step out the forepart door like a ghost
  into the fog where no 1 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.
  • Round Here (Duritz, Dave Janusko, Dan Jewett, Chris Roldan, David Bryson)

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

• She parks her car outside my firm and takes her clothes off
  Says she's close to understanding Jesus
  She knows she's more than that but a little misunderstood
  She has trouble interim normal when she's nervous
  • Round Hither

• Round here we're carving out our names
  Round here we all await the same
  Circular here nosotros talk just like lions
  But we sacrifice similar lambs
  Circular here, she's slipping through my easily
  • Round Hither

• Sleeping children better run similar the air current
  Out of the lightning dream
  Mama's little baby meliorate get herself in
  Out of the lightning
  • Round Here

• Then she looks up at the building
  and says she's thinking of jumping.
  She says she'southward tired of life;
  she must exist tired of something.
  • Circular Here

• Omaha
  Somewhere in middle America
  Getting right to the middle of matters
  Information technology's the middle that matters more than
  I think yous better turn your ticket in
  And get your coin back at the door
  • Omaha

• 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 vivid lights
  Coming through in stereo
  When everybody loves yous, you can never be lonely.
  • Mr. Jones (Duritz, Bryson)

• We all want something cute.
  Man, I wish I was cute.
  • Mr. Jones

• I want to exist a king of beasts
  Everybody wants to laissez passer equally 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 annihilation
  and I want to be someone to believe.
  • Mr. Jones

• Mr. Jones and me staring at the video
  When I await at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me
  We all want to be big stars, but nosotros don't know why and we don't know how
  Just when everybody loves me, I'k going to be just about as happy every bit tin be
  Mr. Jones and me, nosotros're gonna be large stars....
  • Mr. Jones

• It does non bother me to say this isn't dearest
  Because if you don't want to talk about information technology then it isn't love
  And I estimate I'm going to have to live with that
  But I'm certain there's something in a shade of grey,
  Something in between,
  And I can always modify my proper noun
  If that'due south what yous mean
  • Anna Begins

• Every time she sneezes I believe information technology's dear
  • Anna Begins (Duritz, Bryson, Marty Jones, Toby Hawkins, Lydia Holly)

• When I call back of heaven
  (Deliver me in a black-winged bird)
  I recall of flight downwardly into a sea of pens and feathers
  and all other instruments of faith and sexual practice and God
  In the abdomen of a black-winged bird
  Don't try to feed me
  I've been hither earlier and I deserve a little more
  • Pelting King (Duritz, Bryson)

• I belong in the service of the Queen
  I belong anywhere only in betwixt
  She's been crying, I've been thinking
  And I am the Rain King
  • Rain King

• Hey, I only desire the aforementioned as anyone
  Henderson is waiting for the sun
  Oh, information technology seems night endlessly begins and ends
  After all the dreaming I come home again
  • Rain Rex

• Accept the way home that leads dorsum to Sullivan Street
  Cross the h2o, home through the town
  Past the shadows that autumn downwardly wherever we meet
  Pretty soon now, I won't come effectually
  • Sullivan Street

• I'm almost drowning in her ocean
  She'due south near fallen to her knees
  • Sullivan Street

• 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 mode now, I don't actually intendance
  Crusade I'k gone from in that location
  • Sullivan Street

• These train conversations are passing me by
  I don't take nothin' to say
  Yous become what y'all pay for, merely I just had no
  Intention of living this way
  • Raining in Baltimore

• I dreamt I saw you walking, on a hillside in the snow. Casting shadows on the wintertime sky; equally you stood at that place counting crows.
  • A Murder of One (Duritz, Bryson, Matt Malley)

Recovering the Satellites (1996) [edit]

• 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 in a higher place my head
  and read me similar an open up volume
  • Angels of the Silences (Duritz, Charlie Gillingham)

• Waiting for the moon to come
  and light me up inside
  And I am waiting for the telephone
  to tell me I'thousand live
  • Daylight Fading (Duritz, Vickrey, Gillingham)

• Daylight fading
  Come and waste another twelvemonth
  All the the anger and the eloquence
  are bleeding into fright
  Moonlight creeping
  effectually the corners of our backyard
  When we see the early signs
  that daylight'due south fading, we leave just before it's gone
  • Daylight Fading

• I volition wait for you in Baton Rouge
  I'll miss yous downwardly in New Orleans
  I'll wait for y'all while she slips in something comfortable
  And I'll miss you when I'm slipping in betwixt
  If you wrap yourself in daffodils
  I will wrap myself in pain
  And if you're the queen of california
  Baby I am the male monarch of the rain
  And I said
  Goodnight Elisabeth
  • Goodnight Elisabeth

• Children in bloom
  Cooking in the lord's day
  Waiting for a room of our own
  Get out my sister alone
  Cause she don't deserve this
  She is a flower
  And I am a blossom
  And we are all lone
  • Children In Bloom

• Gotta get out on my own
  Gotta get up from this waiting, waiting at home
  Gotta go out of this sunlight
  It's melting my bones
  I gotta get up from this slumber
  Just get myself habitation
  • Children In Flower

• Where'south the funhouse this year
  The fairground'due south deserted and all the skies don't seem as near, but
  Nicole'southward my oldest friend
  Merely the chantry is empty and she'll never be a petty girl again
  • Children In Bloom

• Miller'southward angels are hovering
  in between the globe and the sun
  in the shadow of God'south unwavering love
  I am a fortunate son
  • Miller's Angels

• So she takes her pills
  Conscientious and round
  One of these days she's gonna throw the whole bottle downwards
  • Another Horsedreamer's Blues

• A long December
  and there's reason to believe
  Maybe this year volition be meliorate than the final
  I can't remember
  the last thing that you said
  every bit y'all were leavin'
  Now the days get by then fast
  • A Long December

• The aroma of hospitals in winter
  And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters,
  just no pearls
  All at once you look across a crowded room
  To run into the manner that light attaches to a girl
  And it's one more day upwardly in the canyons
  And it'due south one more night in Hollywood
  If y'all think y'all might come to California...
  I call back you should
  • A Long Dec

• Drove upward to Hillside Manor
  sometime afterward 2 a.m.
  And talked a little while about the year
  I gauge the winter makes you express mirth a footling slower,
  Makes you lot talk a little lower
  about the things you could not show her
  And information technology's been a long Dec
  and at that place's reason to believe
  Peradventure this year will be better than the terminal
  I tin can't call back all the times
  I tried to tell my myself to agree on to these moments equally they pass
  • A Long December

• "I gotta rush abroad," she said,
  "I been to Boston before".
  and anyways
  this change I been feeling
  doesn't make the pelting fall"
  No big differences these days
  just the same old walkaways
  and someday
  I'm gonna stay
  But not today
  • Walkaways (Duritz, Vickrey)

This Desert Life (1999) [edit]

• She sat right down on the sofa; I said,"Where take you been?
  I've been waiting for you.
  Cause final night I had something so good
  These days get so long and I got nada to practice
  I been hanginaround this town on the corner
  • Hanginaround (Duritz, Dan Vickrey, Ben Mize, David Bryson)

• We spend all twenty-four hour period getting sober. Just hiding from daylight
  Watching Goggle box
  Nosotros but look a lot amend in the blue light
  Well, yous know I gotta get out. But I'chiliad stuck so tight
  Weighed by the chains that keep me...
  Hanginaround this boondocks on the corner
  • Hanginaround

• If dreams are like movies then memories are films about ghosts
  • Mrs. Potter's Lullaby

• 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 altitude, then your life is a shame
  And though I'll never forget your face, sometimes I tin can't recall my name
  • Mrs. Potter's Lullaby

• All the blue low-cal reflections that color my heed when I sleep
  And the lovesick rejections that accompany the visitor I keep
  All the razor perceptions that cut just a niggling too deep
  Hey I can bleed as well as anyone, but I need someone to aid me slumber
  • Mrs. Potter's Lullaby

• And the cost of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings
  • Mrs. Potter'southward Lullaby

• 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
  • Colorblind (Duritz, Charlie Gillingham)

• For all the things yous're losing
  You might as well resign yourself to attempt and make a change
  I'thousand going downwardly to Hollywood
  They're gonna make a film from the things that they observe crawling round my brain
  • I Wish I Was a Girl (Duritz, Gillingham)

Hard Candy (2002) [edit]

• On certain Sundays in Nov
  When the weather bothers me
  I empty drawers of other summers
  Where my shadows used to be
  And she is standing by the water
  Every bit her smile begins to ringlet
  In this or whatsoever other summertime
  She is something all together different
  Never just an ordinary girl
  • Hard Processed (Duritz, Dan Vickrey, Charles Gillingham)

• You put your girl upward on a pedestal
  Then you wait for her to fall
  I put my summers dorsum in a letter
  And I hide it from the globe
  All the regrets you tin't forget
  Are somehow pressed upon a flick
  In the face of such an ordinary girl
  And when you slumber yous find your mother in the night
  • Hard Candy

• American girls, all weather & noise
  Playing the changes for all of the boys
  Holding a candle right upward to my hand
  Making me experience and 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
  • American Girls

• The gentleman caller in the blue suede shoes
  He don't know what to do
  He merely wants to look salubrious
  So he rushes in to tell you lot what he did today
  but he can't retrieve of what to say
  I think you listen anyway.
  He wants to have a good fourth dimension merely similar everybody
  He doesn't desire to autumn apart
  You lot watch him as he stutters over what to say
  It's just a picayune game you play
  • Good Time

• It was cold when I awoke
  and the day was halfway done
  nearly spring in San Francisco
  and I still tin can't feel the dominicus
  • If I Could Give All My Beloved To Y'all (Richard Manuel Is Expressionless)

• Have some time before you go
  Think of Mondays coming downwards
  for the people that you knew
  and the i's that aren't around
  • If I Could Give All My Love To You (Richard Manuel Is Expressionless)

• I got a friend at the New Frontier.
  And Galen, she said: "This is not America.
  You need a daughter with electrical pilus,
  And the word you wanted was 'Aluminum'.
  • New Frontier

• Fix your hair simply correct
  and put your jeans on tight
  wear a dress so I tin get it off real piece of cake
  crusade I been thinkin' I'd
  like to meet your eyes
  open up upward real wide the infinitesimal that yous meet me
  • Up All Night (Frankie Miller Goes to Hollywood)

• Got no place to go
  But there'south a girl waiting for me downwardly in United mexican states
  She's got a bottle of tequila
  A bottle of gin
  And if I bring a little music I could fit correct in
  • Holiday in Spain

• They left the television screaming that the radio'south on
  • Holiday in Spain

Films About Ghosts (2003) [edit]

• Albert'due south always sincere, he's a sensitive type
  His intentions are clear, he wanna be well-liked
  If everything is nothing, then are we annihilation?
  Is information technology meliorate to exist better than to be annihilation?
  • Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman) (Duritz, David Bryson)

• And all the king's men reappear
  For an eggman, falling, falling
  The world begins to disappear
  The worst things come up from inside here
  And all the king'southward men reappear
  For an eggman, fallin' off the wall
  Will never be together once again
  No never be together again
  No no never never never once more, uh huh
  What you fear in the night in the day comes to phone call anyhow
  • Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)

External links [edit]

• Counting Crows Official Site

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