Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
Author And Composer: Adam Fredric Duritz, Ben G Mize, Charles Thomas Gillingham, Daniel John Vickrey & David Lynn Bry
I was down at the New Amsterdam
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Staring at this yellow-haired girl
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Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation
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With a black-haired flamenco dancer
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You know she dances
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While his father plays guitar
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She's suddenly beautiful
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And we all want
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Something beautiful
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Man, I wish I was beautiful
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So come dance the silence down
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Through the morning
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Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la, yeah
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Uh huh, yeah
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Cut up, Maria
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Show me some of
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Them Spanish dances
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Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
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Believe in me
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Help me believe in anything
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'Cause I wanna be someone
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Who believes
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Yeah
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Mr. Jones and me
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Tell each other fairy tales
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And we stare at the beautiful women
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She's looking at you
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Ah, no, no, she's looking at me
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Smilin' in the bright lights
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Coming through in stereo
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When everybody loves you
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You can never be lonely
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Well, I'm gon' paint my picture
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Paint myself in blue and
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Red and black and gray
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All of the beautiful colors are
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Very, very meaningful
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Yeah, well, you know
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Gray is my favorite color
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I felt so symbolic yesterday
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If I knew Picasso
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I would buy myself
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A gray guitar and play
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Mr. Jones and me
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Looked into the future
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And we stare at the beautiful women
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She's looking at you
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Ah, no, no, she's looking at me
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Standing in the spotlight
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I bought myself a gray guitar
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When everybody loves me
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I will never be lonely
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I will never be lonely
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Said I'm never gonna be lonely
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I wanna be a lion
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Yeah, everybody wanna pass as cats
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We all wanna be big, big stars
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Yeah, but we got
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Different reasons for that
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Believe in me
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'Cause I don't believe in anything
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And I wanna be someone to believe
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To believe, to believe
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Mr. Jones and me
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Stumbling through the barrio
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Yeah, we stare at
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The beautiful women
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She's perfect for you
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Man, there's got to be somebody
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For me
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I wanna be Bob Dylan
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Mr. Jones wishes he was someone
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Just a little more funky
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When everybody loves you, ah son
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That's just about as funky
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As you can be
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Mr. Jones and me
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Staring at the video
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When I look at the television
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I want to see me
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Staring right back at me
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We all wanna be big stars
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But we don't know why
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And we don't know how
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But when everybody loves me
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I'm wanna be just about
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As happy as I can be
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Mr. Jones and me
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We're gonna be big stars
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