Please click to support...
Hanginaround
words by: Adam F. Duritz; music by: Adam F. Duritz, Daniel J. Vickrey,
Ben Mize, David Bryson
she sat right down on the sofa
and says where have you been
I’ve been waiting for you
and last night I had something so good
these days get so long and I have nothing to do
I’ve been hanging around this town on a corner
I’ve been bummin' around this old town for way too long
I've been hanging around this town on a corner
I’ve been bummin' around this old town for way too long
we spent all day getting sober
just hiding from the daylight
and watching tv
it 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
I’ve been hanging around this town on a corner
I’ve been bummin' around this old town for way too long
I've been hanging around this town on a 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
been laying right here on the floor
i got tall this time to be waiting for what is mine
to be hated for what i am after the light has faded
I’ve been hanging around this town on a corner
I’ve been bummin' around this old town for way too long
I'v e been hanging around this twon on a corner
I’ve been bummin' around this old town for way too long
I’ve been hanging around this town on a corner
I’ve been bummin' around this old town for way too long
I've been hanging around this town on a corner
I’ve been bummin' around this old town for way, way, way too long
Mrs. Potter's
Lullaby
words and music by: Adam F. Duritz
Well I woke in mid-afternoon cause that's when it all 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 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
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-a-whirl will linger inside your head
And the ferris wheel junkies will spin there forever instead
When I see you a blanket of stars covers me in my bed
Hey Mrs. Potter don't go
Hey Mrs. Potter I 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 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
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 I burn for you
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 in the palace like it's the last of the great pioneer town
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
Oh, 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
Amy Hit the
Atmosphere
words by Adam F. Duritz, music by Adam F. Duritz and Matt Malley
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
Well, 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
I wanna know, I wanna know,
I wanna know, I wanna know
I wanna know, I wanna know,
I wanna know, I wanna know
And all I really know is I wanna know
And all I really know is I don't wanna know
And all I really know is I wanna know
And all I really know is I don't wanna know [last two lines repeat]
Four Days
words and music by Adam F. Duritz
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
Ease your mind
Forty thousand times
Time fade into 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 through the black Ohio sky
They descend and then they climb
Feathers falling through the night
Have you seen Ohio rise
It has been four days and nights
All My Friends
words and music by Adam F. Duritz
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
Will leave me behind
And I'm still looking for a girl
One way or another
I'm just hoping to find a way
A way to put my feet out in the world
Caught some grief from a falling leaf
As she tumbled to the dirty ground
And said I should have put her back there if I could
Well everyone needs a better day
And I'm trying to find me a better way
To get through the things I do and 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, she's almost there
can you see her, waiting there for someone like me
Well all you want is a beauty queen
But not a superstar
But every body's dream machine
All you want is a place to lay your head
You go to sleep dreamin' 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
They shine like the sun
Well I just turn and walk away
One way or another
I'm not comin' undone
I'm just waiting for the day
All my friends
High Life
words by Adam F. Duritz, music by Adam F. Duritz and Daniel J. Vickrey
Such a life
Such a life
Such a life
[?]
All my friends got flowers in their eyes
But I got none this season
All of last year's blooms have gone and died
Time doesn't give a reason
Hey maybe you ask yourself sometimes what you need to be forgiven
Every thing that you've ever done wrong is the reason that I'm driven
Straight to tears
Waiting here for you
Wanting to tell you
How I get me ends and my beginings mixed up too
Just the way you do
I thought if I told you
You might want to stay for just another day or two
[speaking] It's just like answers
that come in small packages
with gold on them
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 what kind of apologies?
No apologies
This apology doesn't describe
The way it feels to feel for you
Waiting here for you
Wanting to tell you
How I find myself slowly disappearing too
Just the way you do
I 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 for a little while
Oh, come on, come on, come on, come on
Cause there's a night life just falling down on me
I just feel like a change
But if the southern summer sea of flowers
Won'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 was made in this scene, 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
[speaking] Isn't that just like disappearing into the sum of yourself
and the person you are disappearing into
it's like one plus one equals nothing at all
one plus two equals nothing at all
one plus me equals nothing at all
one plus you equals one plus you equals you and you and you and you
and
nothing at all
nothing at all [repeated]
Colorblind
words by Adam F. Duritz, music by Adam F. Duritz and Charles Gillingham
I am colorblind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am taffy stuck and tongue tied
Stutter shook and uptight
Pull me out from inside
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 fine
I Wish I Was a
Girl
words by Adam F. Duritz, music by Charles Gillingham, Adam F. Duritz
and Counting Crows
The devil's in the dreamin'
He tells you I'm not sleepin'
In my hotel 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
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
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
Well I can't sleep at night [repeated]
Speedway
words by Adam F. Duritz, music by Daniel J. Vickrey and Adam F.
Duritz
I get so nervous I'm shaking
Get's so I got no pride at all
Gets so bad but I just keep coming back for more
Guess I just get off on that stuff
Thinkin' about taking some time
Thinkin' about leaving soon
I got some things I can't tell anyone
Got some things I just can't say
They're the kind of things no one knows about
I just need somebody to talk to me
I'm thinkin' about leaving tomorrow
I'm thinkin' about being on my own
Think I been wasting my time
I'm thinkin' about getting out
I'm 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 don't agree
Don't know, don't know how I feel
Just trying to get myself some gravity
You're just trying to get me to stay
Sometimes I sit here looking down upon Los Angeles
Sometimes I'm floating away
I'm thinkin' about breaking myself
I'm thinkin' about getting back home
I think I been waiting for way too long
Thinkin' bout getting out
Thinkin' bout getting out
Thinkin' bout getting out
St.
Robinson in His Cadillac Dream
words and music by Adam F. Duritz
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've seen Cadillacs sailing.
Well I was born on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay
But Maryland and Virginia are fading away
And I keep thinking tomorrow is coming today
So I am endlessly waiting
And the comet is coming between
Me and the girl who could make it all clean
Out there in the shadow of the modern machine
Walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream
Well Karri’s down in her basement all toe shoes and twin
With the girl in the mirror who spins when she spins
Where you think you will end up to state that you’re in
Your reflection approaches and then recedes again
But the comet is coming between
Me and the girl who could make it all clean
Out there in the shadow of the 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
There’s a hole in the ceiling down through which I fell
There is a girl in a basement coming out of her shell
There are people who will say that they knew me so well
Hey I may not go to heaven but I hope that you go to hell
The comet is coming between
Me and the girl who could make it all clean
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 quite what they seem
Come on baby, come on darling, come on
Get into my car and drive
Come on, get into my car and drive
She says I always do the same things over and over...