[ti:Mr. Jones]
[ar:Counting Crows]

Counting Crows
Mr Jones
Mr Jones
[00:14]I was down at the New
[00:16]Amsterdam, staring at this
[00:19]yellow-haired girl
[00:20]Mr. Jones strikes up a
[00:22]conversation, with this black-
[00:24]haired, flamenco dancer
[00:27]She dances while his father
[00:30]plays guitar
[00:32]She磗 suddenly beautiful,
[00:34]We all want something
[00:36]beautiful,
[00:38]Man I wish I was beautiful
[00:40]So come dance this silence
[00:42]down through the morning,
[00:46]Sha la la la la la la la yeah,
[00:51]ooh, yeah
[00:55]Cut up, Maria! Show me some
[00:59]of them Spanish dances
[01:02]Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
[01:08]Believe in me
[01:12]Help me believe in anything
[01:14]Cause I want to be someone who
[01:17]believes
[01:20]Yeah, Mr. Jones and me tell each
[01:26]other fairy tales
[01:28]And we stare at the beatiful women
[01:31]"She磗 looking at you. Ah,
[01:33]no, no, she磗 looking at me."
[01:35]Smiling in the bright lights
[01:39]Coming through in stereo
[01:41]When everybody loves you
[01:45]you can never be lonely
[01:48]I will paint my picture
[01:52]Paint myself in blue and red
[01:55]and black and gray
[01:56]All of the beautiful colors are
[01:58]very very meaningful
[02:02]Gray is my favorite color
[02:05]I felt so symbolic yesterday
[02:09]If I knew Picasso
[02:12]I would buy myself a gray
[02:14]guitar and play
[02:16]Mr. Jones and me look into the
[02:21]future
[02:23]Stare at the beautiful women
[02:25]"She磗 looking at you.
[02:27]Uh, I don磘 think so. She磗
[02:28]looking at me."
[02:30]Standing in the spotlight
[02:33]I bought myself a gray guitar
[02:36]When everybody loves me, I will
[02:40]never be lonely..I will never be lonely
[02:48]Said I'm never gonna be lonely
[02:56]
[02:57]I want to be a lion
[03:00]Everybody wants to pass as cats
[03:04]We all want to be big big
[03:06]stars, but we got different
[03:09]reasons for that
[03:11]Believe in me because I don磘
[03:14]believe in anything
[03:17]and I want to be someone to
[03:20]believe, to believe, to believe,
[03:23]Yeah
[03:24]Mr. Jones and me stumbling
[03:28]through the barrio
[03:30]Yeah we stare at the beautiful
[03:32]women
[03:33]"She磗 perfect for you, Man,
[03:35]there磗 got to be somebody for me."
[03:38]I want to be Bob Dylan
[03:40]Mr. Jones wishes he was
[03:42]someone just a little more funky
[03:44]When everybody loves you,
[03:47]son, that磗 just about as funky
[03:50]as you can be
[03:51]Mr. Jones and me staring at
[03:55]the video
[03:57]When I look at the television, I
[04:00]I want to see me staring right
[04:03]back at me
[04:05]We all want to be big stars,
[04:07]but we don磘 know why and we don磘 know how
[04:11]But when everybody loves me,
[04:14]I磎 going to be just about as
[04:16]happy as I can be
[04:18]Mr. Jones and me, we磖e gonna
[04:23]be big stars ....
Words by Adam Duritz
Music by Adam Duritz and David Bryson
1993
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