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Hanginaround

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've got nothing to do

I've been hangin' around this town on the corner
I've been bummin' around this old town too long
I've been hangin' around this town on the corner
I've been bummin' around this old town for way too long

We spend all day getting sober
Just hiding from the daylight, watching TV
We just learn a lot better in the blue light
But you know I gotta get out
Well I got so tired of waiting by the chains that keep me...

Hangin' around this town on the corner
I've been bummin' around this old town too long
I've been hangin' around this town on the corner
I've been bummin' around this old town for way too long

This girl listens while the band plays
She says, "Where have you been?
I've been lying right here on the floor."
Well I got all this time to be waiting
For what is mine to be hating
What I am after the light has faded

Hangin' around this town on the corner
I've been bummin' around this old town too long
I've been hangin' around this town on the corner
I've been bummin' around this old town for way too long

I've been bummin' around this old town for way, way, way, way, way too long

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Mrs. Potter's Lullaby

See the exclusive Lyric Sheets from Adam's appearance in New Orleans April 27.

Well i woke up in mid afternoon cause that's when it 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 swingin 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

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
And the ghosts of the tilt-awhirl will linger inside your head
And the ferris wheel junkies will spin them forever instead
When I see you a blanket of stars covers me my in bed

Hey Mrs. Potter don't go
Hey Mrs. Potter don't know but
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me

All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep
And the lovestick 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
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 burn for me
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

We drove out to the desert just to lie down beneath this bowl of stars
We stand up at the Palace like it's the last of the great Pioneertown bars
We shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitars
You can see a million miles tonight
But you can't get very far

Hey Mrs. Potter I won't touch
Hey Mrs. Potter it's not much but
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me

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Amy Hit the Atmosphere

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
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 all the days go drifting away
And some of us sink like a stone
Waiting for mothers to come

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Four Days

See the exclusive Lyric Sheets from Adam's appearance in New Orleans April 27.

All I want is something good
It gets harder every time
She is leaving here tonight
Take a breath
Take your time
Spread your wings and rise

Make a mark upon the wall
Paint your face and pass the time
Close your eyes and she ascends
Hold your breath and ease your mind
Forty thousand times
Time fades onto the night

They descend and then they climb
Feathers falling through the night
Have you seen Ohio rise?
It has been four days and nights

All I want is something fine
It gets harder every time
She is sleeping far away
Take a breath
Take your time
Spread your wings and rise
Rise into the black Ohio skies

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All My Friends

Thought I might get a rocket ride
When I was a child
But it was a lie
That I told myself when I needed something good
At 17 had a better dream
Now I'm 33 and it isn't me
But I'd think of something better if I could
All my friends and lovers
leave me behind
And I'm still looking for a girl
One way or another
I'm just hoping to find a way
To put my feet out in the world
Caught some grief from a falling leaf
As she tumbled into the dirty ground
And said I should have put her back there if I could
Well everyone needs a better day
And I'm tryin' to find me a better way
To get through the things I do to the things I should
All my friends and lovers
Will leave me alone
To try to have a little fun
One way or another
I just wish I had known
To go out walking in the sun
To find out if you were the one
do you wanna come a little closer now
can you see her waiting there
can you see her
Because I'm almost there
can you see her
waiting there for someone like me?
Well all you want is a beauty queen
Not a superstar
But everybody's dream machine
All you want is a place to lay your head
You go to sleep dreaming how you would
Be a different kind if you thought you could
But you come awake the way you are instead
All my friends and lovers shine like the sun
I just turn and walk away
One way or another
I'm not coming undone
I'm just waiting for the day

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High Life

All my friends got flowers in their eyes
But I got none this season
All of the last ten years' 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've ever done wrong
Is the reason that I'm driven
Straight to you
Waiting here for you
Wanting to tell you
How I get me ends and my beginnings mixed up, too
Just the way you do
Thought if I tell you
You might want to stay for just another day or two
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
Waiting here for you
Wanting to tell you
How I find myself slowly disappearing, too
Just the way you do
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
There's a night light just falling down on me
I just feel like a change
Beneath the sun in the Summer
A sea of flowers wn't bloom without the rain
But oh this desert life
This high life
Here at the dying of the day
I wasn't made for the scene, baby
But I wasn made in this scene
and 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

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Colorblind
Featured in the movie
'Cruel Intentions'

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 and 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 folding
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


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I Wish I was a Girl

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
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"
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 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
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"
But I can't sleep at night

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Speedway

I get so nervous - I'm shaking
Get's so I got no pride at all
It gets so bad but I just keep coming back for more
Guess I just get off on that stuff

I'm thinkin about taking some time
I'm thinkin about leavin soon

I got some things I can't tell anyone
I got some things I just can't say
They're the kinda things that no one knows about
just need somebody to talk to me

I'm thinkin about leaving tomorrow
I'm thinkin about being on my own
Think I've been wasting my time
I'm thinkin about getting out
thinkin about getting out

In all this time, the bottom line's
you don't know how much I feel
you say you see but I dont agree.
You don't know how I feel.

Just trying to get myself some gravity
your just trying to get me to stay.
Sometimes I sit here looking down upon los angeles
Sometimes I'm floating away

I'm thinking about breaking myself
I'm thinking about getting back home
I'm think I been for waiting way too long
I'm thinking about getting out

Thinkin about getting out
Thinkin about getting out

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St. Robinson in his Cadillac Dream

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 Cadillacs sailing.

And I was born on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay
but 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 modern machine
Walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream

Carries down in her basement all toe shoes and twinned
There's a girl in the mirror who spins when she spins,
From where you think you will end up in the state that you're in
Your reflection approaches and recedes again

And the comet is coming between
Me and the girl who could make it all clean
Out there in the shadows of modern machines
Walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream

I had a dream of a black car that shimmers and drives
Down the length of the evening to the carnival side
In a house where regret is a carousel ride
We are spinning and spinning and spinning and now..

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 know you so well
I may not go to heaven,
I hope that you go to hell!

The comet is coming between
Me and the girl who could make it all clean
Out there in the shadows of modern machines
Walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream

In his dream….
St. Robinson in his dream….
Some people are never ever quite what they seem
Come on baby come on darlin'
Get into the car and drive….


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Kid Things

Whats that that makes you want to be lonely
Whats that that keeps you sitting at home
Always say no no no as if he wanted you be hungry
The same things your missing get you into something else
But I do need to smile for you
when I dont need anything else
but I wanted you to know
Kid things
seemed like nothing at all
make it better
Ain't what you got that makes you want to be lonely
And what you got makes that a better way to be the way they said
you say No no no can't get any lovin', its sunday.
I said oh well Guess you think I wanted it that way.
Better leave than to stay lonely...
nothing but being alone
but I wanted you to know
Kid things
seemed like nothing at all
make it better ? anyone?
Kid things
Spend all night on the phone
Its a kid thing
I dont want my mamma
I dont want...
Gimme more..
Hey what you think
your sure not getting any younger
Well I notice your not really very old
She always say No no no its feels much better on a
If it isnt warm where your sitting kitten come in out of the cold
Cause all I know is when Im with you I dont need anything else.
But I wanted you to know
Kid things
seemed like nothing at all
make it better ? anyone?
Were just kids...
Spend all night on the phone
Its a kid thing..
Kid things
seemed like nothing at all
make it better ? anyone?
Were just kids...
Just a job and a car...

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Baby, I'm a Big Star Now
Featured in the movie 'Rounders' and on b-side of Hanginaround


Gonna get out on the road tonight
i got a hollow in my head

Checking it up,
Baby,one more time for you
Checking it up,
Until the pot hits the sky

It's like i think
i'm sick of cocaine
Got a feeling like
it's running in my brains

Checking it up,
Baby,one more time for you
Checking it up,
Until the pot hits the sky
Even the best best years
leave a lot to be desired
when they pass you by

All these seasons
All this time
(Is getting passed?)
until they leave you
all behind
Lay me down in the circle
where the spotlight shines
All this pleasure gets me high

Some people will cut you
Untill you're bleeding
But not me
i just want to do it to myself

Checking it up,
Baby,one more time for you
Checking it up,
Until the pot hits the sky
Even the best years
are a waste of time
But,Baby,i'm a big star now

All these seasons,
all this time
(Is getting passed?)
Until they leave you
all behind
Lay me down in a circle
where the spotlight shines
All this pleasure gets me high

All these seasons,
all this time
(Is getting passed?)
Until they leave you
all behind
Lay me down in the circle
Where the spotlight shines
(Looking?) back on the people
who draw the line
Put your faith in the answers
that you can find
Hit the (?) (phone?) running down
that highway line
Say a prayer for the ones
you left behind
All this pleasure gets me high

i don't want to give it back......

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