Counting Crows - Hard Candy (2002) by Counting Crows (보컬) on maniadb.com

On certain Sundays in November
When the weather bothers me
I empty drawers of other summer's
Where my shadows used to be
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
And in the evenings on Long Island
When the colors start to fade
She wears a silly yellow hat
That someone gave her when she stayed
I didn't think that she returned it
We left New York in a whirl
Time expands and then contracts
When you are spinning
In the grips of someone
Who is not an ordinary girl
When you sleep
You find your mother in the night
But she stays just out of sight
So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming
And when you wake the morning covers you with light
And it makes you feel alright
But it's just the same hard candy
You're remembering again
You send your lover off to China
Then you wait for her to call
You put your girl up on a pedestal
Then you wait for her to fall
I put my summer's 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
When you sleep
You find your mother in the night
But she fades just out of sight
So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming
And when you wake the morning showers you with light
And it makes you feel alright
But it's just the same hard candy
You're remembering again
Again 4X
It's just the same hard candy
You're remembering again
Again 4X
And it's just the same hard candy
You're remembering again
Go ask her to come around
And see me late after dark
Don't ask me to come around
Then wait to see if there's a spark.

She comes out on Fridays every time,
Stands out in a line,
I could've been anyone she'd seen,
She waits another week to fall apart,
She couldn't make another day,
I wish it was anyone but me,
I could have been anyone you see,
She had something breakable just under her skin.

American girls, all weather and noise,
Playing the changes for all of the boys,
Holding a candle, up to my hand,
Making me feel so incredible.

She comes out of closets every night,
But then she locks herself away,
Where she could keep everything from me,
I could have been anyone you see,
She's nothing but porcelain underneath her skin.

American girls, all weather and noise,
Playing the changes for all of the boys,
Holding a candle right up to my hand,
Making me feel so incredible.

Little shivers shaking me every day,
But I could get the same thing anywhere,
So if she goes away, well,
It's all right and I'm okay,
Hey, she said, come back again tonight,
And I said I might, I might, I might,
She said well that's all right,
If it's alright, if it's alright with you,
Then it's alright, it's alright with me.

I waited for an hour last Friday night,
She never came around,
She took almost everything from me,
I'm going through my closet,
Trying on her clothes, almost every day,
I could've been anyone you see,
I wish it was anyone but me,
There's nothing but pills and ashes under my skin.

American girls, all weather and 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 and cream,
Coming into bed so edible.

American girls oh, American girls,
American girls, oh, oh, oh, oh,
American girls oh, American girls,
American girls, oh, oh, oh, oh,
You make me cry,
You make me cry,
You make me cry,
Yeah, you made me cry,
You make me cry,
Hey, miss American girl, oh,
Oh, oh, yeah.

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,
It's no easier for you some days,
You wish that you could tell him it'll be okay,
But you feel a little shy these days,
'Cause everybody goes away.

Oh, you just wanna have a good time,
Just like everybody else,
You don't want to fall apart this time.

I can look into your eyes and see the mess we're in,
Well darling, if it's shit came out,
Then I suppose that it's shit went in,
Even though I couldn't say,
I've been the places that you've been,
You know he made my heart real strong,
Even if he made my head real thin.

I wanna have a good time,
Just like everybody,
And I don't want to fall apart.

Oh I wanna have a good time,
Just like everybody else,
And I don't want to fall apart this time,
So would you please invite me in.

Oh, I really love the red haired girls,
I'm just another boy from Texas,
C'mon and take a spin,
Oh, I got a brand new set of wings.

Oh, I really love the red haired girls,
I'm just another boy from Texas,
C'mon and take a spin,
Hey, I gotta brand new set of wings.

Man I sure do love them red haired girls,
I'm just like all the boys from Texas,
C'mon take a spin,
Hey little girl I got a brand new set of wings.

Got a message in my head
that the papers had all gone
Richard Manuel is dead
And the daylight's coming on
I've been wandering through the dark
now I'm standing on the lawn

If I could give all my love to you
I could justify myself
but I'm just not coming through
You're a pill to ease the pain
of all the stupid things I do
I'm an anchor on the line
of a clock that tells the time
that is running out on you
Well it was cold when i woke
and the day was halfway done
Nearly spring in San Francisco
but I cannot feel the sun
you were sleeping next to me
but I knew that you'd be gone

If I could give all my love to you
I could justify myself
but I'm just not coming through
You're a pill to ease the pain
of all the stupid things I do
I'm an anchor on the line
of a clock that tells the time
that is running out on you
Take some time before you go
think of monday's coming down
and the people that you knew
The ones that aren't around
you've been fading day to day
I've been moving town to town

If I could give all my love to you
I could justify myself
but I'm just not coming through
You're a pill to ease the pain
of all the stupid things i do
I'm an anchor on the line
of a clock that tells the time
that is running out on you
2X

I said goodnight LA,
'Cause I'm awake in my room,
I've been up for 38 hours,
And it don't look like sleep's coming soon,
'Cause I could break like a bird,
Or I could swallow the sea,
It seems like the daylight is coming,
And no one is watching but me,
But I don't mind the dark,
Discovering the day,
'Cause the night is a,
Beautiful bright blue and gray.

What brings me down now, is love,
'Cause I can never get enough,
And what brings me down now, is love,
'Cause I can never get enough of love.

And it's a dangerous time,
For a heart on a wire,
Shuttle from station to station,
Noisily not knowing why,
So I put my head on the ground,
And the sky is a wheel,
Spinning these days into things that I've lost,
But you can keep all the years,
But I don't mind the days,
Gone rolling away,
'Cause all this sunlight feels warm on my face today.

But what brings me down now, is love,
'Cause I can never get enough,
What brings me down now, is love,
'Cause I can never get enough, never get enough,
Never get enough no, no,
Never get enough of love,
Said I can never get enough of love.

What brings me, brings me down now, is love,
'Cause I can never get enough of love,
I can never get enough of love,
I can never get enough of love,
I can never ever get enough,
I can never get enough of love.

Maryann you're better than the world
They took a lot of time getting it right on this girl
I said Maryann you're better than the world
They did a lot of things right on this girl
I had a lot of girlfriends
I should have known them
Click your heels and count back from three
Do you want to go back
You should have known that
The butterfly in reverse here is me
Maryann you're better than the world
They took a lot of time getting it right on this girl
I said Maryann you're better than the world
They did a lot of things right on this girl
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
or other perfect things
We go swimming in the sunshine
Dangling from clotheslines
Seperate and fall into me
And did you ever see me
Me absolutely
Me but all you but still me
Maryann you're better than the world
They took a lot of time getting it right on this girl
I said Maryann you're better than the world
They did a lot of things right on this girl did alot of things right on this [2X]
did alot of things right on this girl

I guess I think I feel alright
You come circling through the light
The skyline, baby, is bright tonight
What more perfect rendezvous?
The sundown paints the shadows
Through the daylight, Amy, on what we do

It looks like darkness to me
Drifting down into Miami

Can I say,
"I wish that this weather would never leave?"
It just gets hard to believe
That God sent this angel to watch over me
Cause my angel
She don't receive my calls
Says I'm too dumb to...
Too dumb to fight
Too dumb to save
Well, maybe, I don't need no angel at all

It looks like darkness to me
Drifting down into Miami
She could pull the sunlight through me
Coming down into Miami

Make a circle in the sand
Make a halo with your hand
I'll make a place for you to land

The bus is running
It's time to leave
This summer's gone
And so are we
So come on baby,
Let's go shut it down in New Orleans

Come on children mind the gap.

Miracle people with marvellous hair,
And the knack to do anything better than anyone,
I got a home with electrical air,
And I live in a world smaller than anyone's,
I got a line on the new frontier,
I got a line on the new America,
All of the people are vanishing here,
I could be huge if I could just get.

From the outside of everything to the inside of you,
From the outside of everything to the inside of you.

Purest aluminium people are walking,
The streets of London so hysterical,
Nobody here gets a word that I say,
And the problems I'm told,
Are more than medical,
I got a friend from the new frontier,
And Galen, she says, this is not America,
You need a girl with electrical hair,
And the word that you wanted was aluminium.

From the outside of everything to the inside of you,
From the outside of everything to the inside.

I was in bed with the girl at the end of the world,
She said, I'm going home, you should come home too,
But I'm at the end of a new frontier,
Here at the edge of the flat earth ending,
I'm getting off to get lost in the air,
At the end of the world where the light is bending.

From the outside of everything to the inside of you,
From the outside of everything to the inside of you,
From the outside of everything to the inside of you,
From the outside of everything to the inside.
To the inside of you,
To the inside of you,
To the inside of you,
To the inside of you.

If anything, it should have been a better thing,
From underneath you staring at the ceiling,
There's another world of chocolate bars and baseball cards,
That hides inside of all this tension that I'm feeling.

But it's all inside of you,
Yeah it's all inside of you.

Surprise, surprise, I miss your hair,
You miss my eyes and all this solitude is my confidence eroding,
So we slide inside of someone's mouth and someone's eyes,
Until there's a sound of something intimate exploding.

But it's all inside of you,
Yeah it's all inside of you,
Oh it's all inside of you,
Yeah it's all inside of you.

I wish that I was anaesthetized and sterilized and then,
We wouldn't have this evidence congealing,
Surprise, surprise, another pair of lips and eyes,
And that is the consequence of actually feeling.

It was all inside of you,
It was all inside of you,
It was all inside of you,
It was all inside of you.

Fading everything to black and blue,
You look a lot like you'd,
Shatter in the blink of an eye,
But you keep sailing right on through,
Every time you say you're learning,
You just look a lot like me,
Pale under the blistering sky,
White and red, black and blue.

You've been waiting a long time,
You've been waiting a long time,
To fall down on your knees,
Cut your hands,
Cut yourself until you bleed,
But fall asleep next to me.

Wait for everyone to go away,
And in a dimly lit,
Room where you got nothing to hide,
Say your goodbyes,
Tell yourself we'll read,
A note that says, I'm sorry everyone,
I'm tired of feeling nothing, goodbye,
Wash your face, dry your eyes, oh.

'Cause you've been waiting a long time,
You've been waiting a long, long time,
To fall down on your knees,
Cut your hands,
Cut yourself until you bleed,
But fall asleep next to me.

And have a dream I'm falling down,
On my face, I scrape my knees,
I scrape my hands until they bleed,
Cause you're fast asleep next to me.
Next to me, next to me, next to me.

It's 1:30 in the morning,
But that's alright by me,
Weren't you just waiting by the phone?
Well I should give a little warning,
But I need the things I need,
I'm not proud to need a hand,
But I just don't understand.

So why should you come when I call?
I never say nothing at all,
Why do I go, when I go?
It's leaving me here all alone,
You ought to get out on your own.

Ain't necessarily a bad thing,
To believe the things I say,
'Cause you can make yourself feel good,
You know it's really not a good thing,
To give everything to me,
I'm just waiting for the show,
'Cause I got nowhere to go.

So why should you come when I call?
I never say nothing at all,
Why do I go, when I go?
It's leaving me here all alone,
You ought to get out on your own.

'Cause nothing makes me feel so good,
Or gets me high so I sleep at night,
And lets me know that everything's alright,
I feel nice.

I'm so sorry in the morning,
You can believe what you believe,
I'm used to waking up alone,
And if you think about it,
Anyone you think about is better love than me,
But if you're not fallen quite asleep,
I might call tonight,
If that's alright.

Why should you come when I call?
I never say nothing at all,
Why do I go, when I go?
It's leaving me here all alone,
You ought to get out on your own.

Oh, why should you come when I call?
Oh, why do I go, when I go?
Oh, why should you,
Why should you, come when I call?
Why should you come,
Why should you come when I call?

Is everybody happy now?
Is everybody clear?
We could drive out to the dunes tonight,
'cause summer's almost here.
And I've been up all night,
I might sleep all day.
Get your dreams just right
Let them slip away,
I might sleep all day.
When the roads are clear,
We'll head on out of here,
If you're coming back,
I'll see you in the morning
I'm just staring at
the ceiling staring back at me,
Just waiting for the daylight to come crawling in on me...
And I've been up all night,
I might sleep all day.
Get your dreams just right
And let them slip away,
I might sleep all day.
Ohhh...It's too late to get high now.
[2X]
fix your hair just right
Put your jeans on tight,
Wear a dress, so I can get it off real easy.
'Cause I've been thinking I'd
like to see your eyes
open up real wide the minute that you see me.
If you don't come through,
I wouldn't wait for you.
I understand that everyone goes disappearing,
into the greatest grey
that covers over everyday,
and hovers in the distance and the distance and the distance...
I've been up all night,
I might sleep all day.
Get your dreams just right
let them slip away,
I might sleep all day.
Ohh...It's too late to get high now.
[2X]
Baby I'm not alone
only wanna get high

Got no place to go,
But there's a girl waiting for me down in Mexico,
She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin,
And if I bring a little music I could fit right in.

We got airplane rides,
We got California drowning out the window side,
We've got big black cars,
And we got stories,
How we slept with all the movie stars.

I may take a holiday in Spain,
Leave my wings behind me,
Drink my worries down the drain,
And fly away to somewhere new.

Hop on my choo-choo,
I'll be your engine driver in a bunny suit,
If you dress me up in pink and white,
We may be just a little fuzzy 'bout it later tonight.

She's my angel,
She's a little better than the one that used to be with me,
'Cause she liked to scream at me,
Man, it's a miracle that she's not living up in a tree.

I may take a holiday in Spain,
Leave my wings behind me,
Drive this little girl insane,
And fly away to someone new.

Everybody's gone,
They left the television screaming that the radio's on,
Someone stole my shoes but there's a couple of bananas,
And a bottle of booze.

Oh well, happy new year's baby,
We could probably fix it if we clean it up all day,
Or we could simply pack our bags,
And catch a plane to Barcelona 'cause this city's a drag.

I may take a holiday in Spain,
Leave my wings behind me,
Flush my worries down the drain,
And fly away to somewhere new.

Take a holiday in Spain,
Leave my wings behind me,
Drive this little girl insane,
Fly away to someone new,
Fly away to someone new,
Fly away to someone new.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Shoobopbopbopbop, shoobopbopbop
They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum
And then they charged all the poeple twentyfive bucks just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Shoobopbopbopbop, shoobopbopbop
Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT now
Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, please
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
I say, they paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
Shoobopbopbopbop
Late last night I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi carried off my old man
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
Shoobopbopbopbop
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
Shoobopbopbopbop
Oh, now, they paved paradise and they put up a parking lot
Shoobopbopbopbop
Hey, steam rolled paradise and put up a parking lot
Shoobopbopbopbop