Counting Crows
Counting Crows is an American rock band, formed by lead singer, Adam Duritz in 1993.
August and Everything After (1993)
- Step out the front door like a ghost
into the fog where no one notices
the contrast of white on white.
And in between the moon and you
the angels get a better view
of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.- Round Here
- Says she's close to understanding Jesus
She knows she's more that just a little misunderstood
She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous
Round here we're carving out our names
Round here we all look the same
Round here we talk just like lions
But we sacrifice like lambs- Round Here
- Then she looks up at the building
and 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 America
Get right to the heart of matters
It's the heart that matters more
I think you better turn your ticket in
And get your money back at the door- Omaha
- We all want something beautiful.
I wish I was beautiful- Mr. Jones
- Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales
Stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you. Ah, no, no, she's looking at me."
Smiling in the bright lights
Coming through in stereo
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely- Mr. Jones
- I want to be a lion
Everybody wants to pass as cats
We all want to be big big stars, but we got different reasons for that
Believe in me because I don't believe in anything
and I want to be someone to believe- Mr. Jones
- Mr. Jones and me staring at the video
When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me
We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why and we don't know how
But when everybody loves me, I'm going to be just about as happy as can be
Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars....- Mr. Jones
- Believe in me, help me believe in anything, I want to be someone who believes"
- Mr.Jones
- It does not bother me to say this isn't love
Because if you don't want to talk about it then it isn't love
And I guess I'm going to have to live with that
But I'm sure there's something in a shade of grey,
Something in between,
And I can always change my name
If that's what you mean- Anna Begins
- 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 feathers
and all other instruments of faith and sex and God
In the belly of a black-winged bird
Don't try to feed me
I've been here before and I deserve a little more- Rain King
- I belong in the service of the Queen
I belong anywhere but in between
She's been crying, I've been thinking
And I am the Rain King- Rain King
- These train conversations are passing me by
I don't have nothin' to say
You get what you pay for, but I just had no
Intention of living this way- Raining in Baltimore
- I dreamt i saw you walking, on a hillside in the snow. castings shadows on the winter sky; as you stood there counting crows.
- A Murder of One
Recovering the Satellites (1996)
- All my sins...
I said that I would pay for them
if I could come back to you
All my innocence is wasted on
the dead and dreaming
I dream of Michelangelo
when I'm lying in my bed
Little angels hang above my head
and read me like an open book- Angels of the Silences
- Waiting for the moon to come
and light me up inside
And I am waiting for the telephone
to tell me I'm alive- Daylight Fading
- Daylight fading
Come and waste another year
All the the anger and the eloquence
are bleeding into fear
Moonlight creeping
around the corners of our lawn
When we see the early signs
that daylight's fading, we leave just before it's gone- Daylight Fading
- I will wait for you in Baton Rouge
I'll miss you down in New Orleans
I'll wait for you while she slips in something comfortable
And I'll miss you when I'm slipping in between
If you wrap yourself in daffodils
I will wrap myself in pain
And if you're the queen of california
Baby I am the king of the rain
And I say
Goodnight Elisabeth- Goodnight Elisabeth
- A long December
and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember
the last thing that you said
as you were leavin'
Now the days go by so fast- A Long December
- The smell of hospitals in winter
And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters,
but no pearls
All at once you look across a crowded room
To see the way that light attaches to a girl
And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think you might come to California...
I think you should- A Long December
- Drove up to Hillside Manor
sometime after two a.m.
And talked a little while about the year
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,
Makes you talk a little lower
about the things you could not show her
And it's been a long December
and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember all the times
I 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 feeling
doesn't make the rain fall"
No big differences these days
just the same old walkaways
and someday
I'm gonna stay
But not today- Walkaways
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 good
These days get so long and I got nothing to do
I been hanginaround this town on the corner- Hanginaround
- We spend all day getting sober. Just hiding from daylight
Watching TV
We 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...
Hanginaround this town on the corner- Hanginaround
- Well I woke up 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- Mrs. Potter's Lullaby
- 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- Mrs. Potter's Lullaby
- 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- Mrs. Potter's Lullaby
- And all the lovesick rejections that accompany the company i keep.
- 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
- For all the things you're losing
You might as well resign yourself to try and make a change
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
Hard Candy (2002)
- On certain Sundays in November
When the weather bothers me
I empty drawers of other summers
Where my shadows used to be
And she is standing by the water
As her smile begins to curl
In this or any other summer
She is something all together different
Never just an ordinary girl- Hard Candy
- You put your girl up on a pedestal
Then you wait for her to fall
I put my summers back in a letter
And I hide it from the world
All the regrets you can't forget
Are somehow pressed upon a picture
In the face of such an ordinary girl
And when you sleep you find your mother in the night- Hard Candy
- American girls, all weather & noise
Playing the changes for all of the boys
Holding a candle right up to my hand
Making me feel so incredible
If I made you cry, please tell me why
Cause I'll try again if you let me try
American girls all feathers & cream
Come into bed so edible- American Girls
- The gentleman caller in the blue suede shoes
He don't know what to do
He just wants to look good for you
So he rushes in to tell you what he did today
but he can't think of what to say
I think you listen anyway.
He wants to have a good time just like everybody
He doesn't want to fall apart
You watch him as he stutters over what to say
It's just a little game you play- Good Time
- Where’d you want to go to
With nothing beside you
But webbing and curfews and rain?
And everything that hurts you
Gets stuffed up inside you
Like butterflies with wings
And other perfect things- Butterfly in Reverse
- 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
- Got no place to go
But there's a girl waiting for me down in Mexico
She's got a bottle of tequila
A bottle of gin
And 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 type
His intentions are clear, he wanna be well-liked
If everything is nothing, then are we anything?
Is it better to be better than to be anything?- Einstein on the Beach
- And all the king's men reappear
For an eggman, falling, falling
The world begins to disappear
The worst things come from inside here
And all the king's men reappear
For an eggman, fallin' off the wall
Will never be together again
No never be together again
No no never never never again, uh huh
What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway- Einstein on the Beach
Adam Duritz
- I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck.
- My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
- There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
- Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
- When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you."
- Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
- All my songs are where I am.
- Art is just an expression, it's something you do because you need to express yourself. You take what's going on on the inside and put it on the outside, that's just who you are. I just write songs because I feel a certain way. When you've got a bunch of them, that's an album. They're all different.
- In LA, and also on tour, I've been isolated for too long. On stage you're the man, but other than that, there's nothing I like about being on tour. Thousands of people that worship you are nothing, compared to one evening with your friends. But it's my job: I'm a grown-up man, and I go to work.