Counting Crows

thumb|Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows at EMC World 2010 Counting Crows are an American rock band 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). Quotes 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. Adam Duritz, about "A Murder of One", from August and Everything After (1993) Song lyrics All tracks written by Adam Duritz unless otherwise indicated. August and Everything After (1993) Step out the front door like a ghostinto the fog where no one noticesthe contrast of white on white.And in between the moon and youthe angels get a better viewof 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 handsays she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis "Round Here" She parks her car outside my house and takes her clothes offSays she's close to understanding JesusShe knows she's more that just a little misunderstoodShe has trouble acting normal when she's nervous "Round Here" Round here we're carving out our namesRound here we all look the sameRound here we talk just like lionsBut we sacrifice like lambsRound here, she's slipping through my hands "Round Here" Sleeping children better run like the windOut of the lightning dreamMama's little baby better get herself inOut of the lightning "Round Here" Then she looks up at the buildingand says she's thinking of jumping.She says she's tired of life;she must be tired of something. "Round Here" Omaha Somewhere in middle AmericaGetting right to the heart of mattersIt's the heart that matters moreI think you better turn your ticket inAnd get your money back at the door "Omaha" Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy talesStare at the beautiful women"She's looking at you." "Ah, no, no, she's looking at me."Smiling in the bright lightsComing through in stereoWhen everybody loves you, you can never be lonely. "Mr. Jones" (Duritz, Bryson) We all want something beautiful.Man, I wish I was beautiful. "Mr. Jones" I want to be a lionEverybody wants to pass as catsWe all want to be big big stars, yeah, but we got different reasons for thatBelieve in me because I don't believe in anythingand I want to be someone to believe. "Mr. Jones" Mr. Jones and me staring at the videoWhen I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at meWe all want to be big stars, but we don't know why and we don't know howBut when everybody loves me, I'm going to be just about as happy as can beMr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars.... "Mr. Jones" It does not bother me to say this isn't loveBecause if you don't want to talk about it then it isn't loveAnd I guess I'm going to have to live with thatBut I'm sure there's something in a shade of grey,Something in between,And I can always change my nameIf that's what you mean "Anna Begins" (Duritz, Bryson, Marty Jones, Toby Hawkins, Lydia Holly) Every time she sneezes I believe it's love. "Anna Begins" When I think of heaven(Deliver me in a black-winged bird)I think of flying down into a sea of pens and feathersand all other instruments of faith and sex and GodIn the belly of a black-winged birdDon't try to feed meI've been here before and I deserve a little more "Rain King" (Duritz, Bryson) I belong in the service of the QueenI belong anywhere but in betweenShe's been crying, I've been thinkingAnd I am the Rain King "Rain King" Hey, I only want the same as anyoneHenderson is waiting for the sunOh, it seems night endlessly begins and endsAfter all the dreaming I come home again "Rain King" Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan StreetCross the water, home through the townPast the shadows that fall down wherever we meetPretty soon now, I won't come around "Sullivan Street" I'm almost drowning in her seaShe's nearly fallen to her knees Sullivan Street Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan StreetWhere all the bodies hang on the airIf she remembers, she hides it whenever we meetEither way now, I don't really careCause I'm gone from there "Sullivan Street" These train conversations are passing me byI don't have nothin' to sayYou get what you pay for, but I just had noIntention of living this way "Raining in Baltimore" I dreamt I saw you walking, on a hillside in the snow.Casting shadows on the winter sky; as you stood there counting crows. "A Murder of One" (Duritz, Bryson, Matt Malley) I walk along these hillsides in the summer 'neath the sunshine;I am feathered by the moonlight falling down on me. "A Murder of One" Recovering the Satellites (1996) All my sins...I said that I would pay for themif I could come back to youAll my innocence is wasted onthe dead and dreamingI dream of Michelangelowhen I'm lying in my bedLittle angels hang above my headand read me like an open book "Angels of the Silences" (Duritz, Charlie Gillingham) Waiting for the moon to comeand light me up insideAnd I am waiting for the telephoneto tell me I'm alive "Daylight Fading" (Duritz, Vickrey, Gillingham) Daylight fadingCome and waste another yearAll the the anger and the eloquenceare bleeding into fearMoonlight creepingaround the corners of our lawnWhen we see the early signsthat daylight's fading, we leave just before it's gone "Daylight Fading" I will wait for you in Baton RougeI'll miss you down in New OrleansI'll wait for you while she slips in something comfortableAnd I'll miss you when I'm slipping in betweenIf you wrap yourself in daffodilsI will wrap myself in painAnd if you're the queen of californiaBaby I am the king of the rainAnd I saidGoodnight Elisabeth "Goodnight Elisabeth" Children in bloomCooking in the sunWaiting for a room of our ownLeave my sister aloneCause she don't deserve thisShe is a flowerAnd I am a flowerAnd we are all alone "Children In Bloom" Gotta get out on my ownGotta get up from this waiting, waiting at homeGotta get out of this sunlightIt's melting my bonesI gotta get up from this slumberJust get myself home "Children In Bloom" Where's the funhouse this yearThe fairground's deserted and all the skies don't seem as near, butNicole's my oldest friendBut the altar is empty and she'll never be a little girl again "Children In Bloom" Miller's angels are hoveringin between the earth and the sunin the shadow of God's unwavering loveI am a fortunate son "Miller's Angels" So she takes her pillsCareful and roundOne of these days she's gonna throw the whole bottle down "Another Horsedreamer's Blues" A long Decemberand there's reason to believeMaybe this year will be better than the lastI can't rememberthe last thing that you saidas you were leavin'Now the days go by so fast "A Long December" The smell of hospitals in winterAnd the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters,but no pearlsAll at once you look across a crowded roomTo see the way that light attaches to a girlAnd it's one more day up in the canyonsAnd it's one more night in HollywoodIf you think you might come to California...I think you should "A Long December" Drove up to Hillside Manorsometime after two a.m.And talked a little while about the yearI guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,Makes you talk a little lowerabout the things you could not show herAnd it's been a long Decemberand there's reason to believeMaybe this year will be better than the lastI can't remember all the timesI tried to tell my myself to hold on to these moments as they pass "A Long December" "I gotta rush away," she said,"I been to Boston before.And anyways,This change I been feelingDoesn't make the rain fall."No big differences these daysJust the same old walkaways.And somedayI'm gonna stay,But not today. "Walkaways" (Duritz, Vickrey) This Desert Life (1999) 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 goodThese days get so long and I got nothing to doI been hanginaround this town on the corner "Hanginaround" (Duritz, Dan Vickrey, Ben Mize, David Bryson) We spend all day getting sober. Just hiding from daylightWatching TVWe just look a lot better in the blue lightWell, you know I gotta get out. But I'm stuck so tightWeighed by the chains that keep me...Hanginaround this town 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 fameI am an acrobat swinging trapezes through circles of flameIf you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shameAnd though I'll never forget your face, sometimes I can't remember my name "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby" All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleepAnd the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keepAll the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deepHey I can bleed as well as anyone, but I need someone to help me sleep "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby" And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings. "Mrs. Potter's 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 you're losingYou might as well resign yourself to try and make a changeI'm going down to HollywoodThey're gonna make a movie from the things that they find crawling round my brain "I Wish I Was a Girl" (Duritz, Gillingham) Hard Candy (2002) On certain Sundays in NovemberWhen the weather bothers meI empty drawers of other summersWhere my shadows used to beAnd she is standing by the waterAs her smile begins to curlIn this or any other summerShe is something all together differentNever just an ordinary girl "Hard Candy" (Duritz, Dan Vickrey, Charles Gillingham) You put your girl up on a pedestalThen you wait for her to fallI put my summers back in a letterAnd I hide it from the worldAll the regrets you can't forgetAre somehow pressed upon a pictureIn the face of such an ordinary girlAnd when you sleep you find your mother in the night "Hard Candy" American girls, all weather & noisePlaying the changes for all of the boysHolding a candle right up to my handMaking me feel so incredibleIf I made you cry, please tell me whyCause I'll try again if you let me tryAmerican girls all feathers & creamCome into bed so edible "American Girls" The gentleman caller in the blue suede shoesHe don't know what to doHe just wants to look good for youSo he rushes in to tell you what he did todaybut he can't think of what to sayI think you listen anyway.He wants to have a good time just like everybodyHe doesn't want to fall apartYou watch him as he stutters over what to sayIt's just a little game you play "Good Time" It was cold when I awokeand the day was halfway donenearly spring in San Franciscoand I still can't feel the sun "If I Could Give All My Love To You (Richard Manuel Is Dead)" Take some time before you goThink of Mondays coming downfor the people that you knewand the one's that aren't around "If I Could Give All My Love To You (Richard Manuel Is Dead)" I got a friend at the New Frontier.And Galen, she said: "This is not America.You need a girl with electrical hair,And the word you wanted was 'Aluminum'. "New Frontier" Fix your hair just rightand put your jeans on tightwear a dress so I can get it off real easycause I been thinkin' I'dlike to see your eyesopen up real wide the minute that you see me "Up All Night (Frankie Miller Goes to Hollywood)" Got no place to goBut there's a girl waiting for me down in MexicoShe's got a bottle of tequilaA bottle of ginAnd if I bring a little music I could fit right in "Holiday in Spain" They left the television screaming that the radio's on "Holiday in Spain" Films About Ghosts (2003) Albert's always sincere, he's a sensitive typeHis intentions are clear, he wanna be well-likedIf everything is nothing, then are we anything?Is it better to be better than to be anything? "Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)" (Duritz, David Bryson) And all the king's men reappearFor an eggman, falling, fallingThe world begins to disappearThe worst things come from inside hereAnd all the king's men reappearFor an eggman, fallin' off the wallWill never be together againNo never be together againNo no never never never again, uh huhWhat you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway "Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)" Shrek 2: Motion Picture Soundtrack (2004) How much longer will it take to cure this?Just to cure it 'cause I can't ignore it if it's love (love)Makes me wanna turn around and face me,But I don't know nothing 'bout love, ohCome on, come on,Turn a little faster.Come on, come on,The world will follow after.Come on, come on,Because everybody's after love. "Accidentally in Love" Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings (2008) Oh, where do we disappear?Into the silence that surrounds usAnd then drowns us in the end.Where all these people who impersonate our friendsSay, “Come again, come again, come again…” "1492" You open windowsAnd you wait for someone warm to come inside.And then you freeze to death alone.This dizzy life of mine keeps hanging me up all the timeThis dizzy life is just a hanging treeFor me. "Hanging Tree" (Duritz, Dan Vickrey) Now I live in the shadows where light is electricAnd time is a number that rests on a wall.And nobody knows me,My friends and my family,Are as far from this city as Washington Square. "Washington Square" And I dream of Michelangelo when I'm lying in my bedI see God upon the ceiling,I see angels overhead.And he seems so close as he reaches out his hand,But we are never quite as close as we are led to understand. "When I Dream of Michelangelo" (Duritz, Gillingham, Immerglück, Vickrey) If you think you need to go,If you wanted to be free,There's just one thing you need to know.And that's that you can't count on me. "You Can't Count On Me" Have you seen the little pieces of the people we have been?Little pieces blowing’ gently on the wind. "Come Around" (Duritz, Vickrey) External links Counting Crows Official Site Category:American bands Category:Alternative rock bands Category:Pop rock bands Category:Folk rock bands