Lyrics to Counting Crows' Across A Wire

Across A Wire - Live In New York
Counting Crows
1998

Round Here

- Please welcome, huh, my favorite band, Counting Crows.
- Hey. I'm gonna start off with just Dave and I.

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

Well, I walk in the air between the rain, through myself and back again
Where, I don't know
But Maria says she's dying, through the door, I hear her crying
Why, I don't know

'Round here, we always stand up straight
'Round here, something radiates

Well, Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand
She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis
And she walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land
Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus

And she parks her car outside of my house and takes all her clothes off
And says she's close to understanding Jesus
And she knows she's more than just a little, you know, misunderstood
She has trouble acting normal, well, I have trouble acting normal

But 'round here, we're carving out our names
'Round here, we all look the same
'Cause 'round here, we talk just like lions, and then we, we sacrifice just like lambs
And 'round here, look, she's, she's slipping through my hands

Oooooh

Well, sleeping children better run like the wind
Out, out, out, out, out of this lightning dream
I said mama's little baby better get herself in
Out of the lightning

She says it's only in my head
She says "shhh", I know, I know it's only in my head
This girl on the car in the parking lot says "man, you should try to take a shot
Can't you see my walls are crumbling?"
Then she looks up at the building, she says "I'm thinkin' of jumpin'"
She says "I'm sick and tired of life", well, everybody's tired of something

'Round here, she's always on my mind
And 'round here, hey man, I got a lot of time
So 'round here, we're never sent to bed early, man, nobody makes us wait
'Round here, we stay up very, very, very, very late

I can't see nothing, nothing around here, oooh
Would you catch me if I was falling, would you kiss me if I was leavin'
Would you hold me, 'cause I'm lonely without you
I said I'm under the gun around here
I said I'm lonely, lonely, I'm lonely without you
And I can't see nothing, nothing around here

- Where's Charley? (????), this is Charley...

Have You Seen Me Lately?

Get away from me
Get away from me, this isn't gonna be easy
But I don't need you, believe me
Yeah, you got a piece of me
But it's just a little piece of me, I don't need anyone
These days, I feel like I'm fading away
Like sometimes, when I hear myself on the radio

Have you seen me lately?
Have you seen me lately?
Have you seen me lately?

I was out on the radio, starting to change
Somewhere out in America, it's raining
Could you tell me one thing you remember about me
Remember about me

I remember me
All the little things that make up a memory
She said she loved to watch me sleep
Like she said, "it's the breathing
It's the breathing in and out and in and..."

Oh, have you seen me lately?
Have you seen me lately?
Have you seen me lately?

I was out on the radio, starting to change
Somewhere out in America, it's raining
Could you tell me one thing you remember about me
Remember about me, yeah

You know, I thought that someone would notice
I thought somebody would say something
If I was missing, well, can't you see me?

Come on, color me in
Come on, color me in
Come on, come on, come on

Gimme your blue rain, gimme your black sky
Gimme your green eyes
Just gimme your white skin
Gimme your white skin
Gimme your white skin

I was out on the radio, starting to change
Somewhere out in America, it's raining
Could you tell me one thing that you remember about me
Just one thing that you remember about me
Just one thing you remember about me
Oooh, one thing you remember about me
Remember about me

Angels Of The Silences

- So this is, huh, that's David and Charley, this is Ben, and huh, this is Dan, this is Matt.

Well, I guess you left me with some feathers in my hand
Did it make it any easier to just leave me where I stand?
I guess there might not be too many who would stand beside you now
Where'd you come from, where am I going, why'd you leave us 'til we're only good for

Waiting for you
All my sins, yeah
Said that I would pay for them if I could
Come back to you
All my innocence
Is just wasted on the dead and dreaming

Every night, these silhouettes appear above my head
Some little angels of the silences that climb into my bed and whisper
Every time I fall asleep, every time I dream
Did you come, would you lie, why'd you leave me 'til I'm only good for

Waiting for you
All my sins, yeah
I said that I would pay for them if I could
Come back to you
All my innocence
Is just wasted on the dead and dreaming

And I dream of Michelangelo when I'm lying in my bed
Little angels hang above my head and read me like an open book
And suck my blood, break my nerve, offer me their arms
Well, I will not be an enemy of anything, I'll only stand here

Waiting for you
All my sins, yeah
I said that I would pay for them if I could
Come back to you
All my innocence
Is just wasted on the dead and dreaming

I'm gone
I'm gone
I'm gone
I'm gone

I'm gone
Oooooh
I'm gone
I'm gone
I'm gone

Catapult

All of the sudden, she disappears
Just yesterday, she was here
Somebody, tell me if I am sleeping
'Cause someone should be with me here
'Cause I don't wanna be alone

I wanna be the knife that just cuts into my hand
And I, I wanna be scattered from here in this catapult
What a big baby, won't somebody save me please
Can't find nobody home

All of these quiet battered voices
Just wait for the hunger to come
We got little revolvers, such stupid choices
And no one to say when we're done
Well, I don't wanna bring you down

I wanna be the light that just burns out your eyes
'Cause I know there's little things about me that would sing in the silence
Of so much rejection in every connection I make
I can't find nobody home

Yeah, I wanna be the light that burns out your eyes
'Cause I know there's little things about me that would sing in the silence
Of so much rejection in every connection I make
I wanna be the last thing that you hear when you're falling asleep

I wanna be the knife that just cuts into my hand
And I wanna be scattered from here in this catapult
What a big baby, won't somebody just take me please
I can't find nobody home

Home

Mr. Jones

- This is a song about my dreams.

So you wanna be a rock and roll star
Well, listen now to what I say
Just get an electric guitar, take some time
And learn how to play
Just learn how to play

I was down in the New Amsterdam
Just staring at this yellow-haired girl
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation
With a black-haired flamenco dancer

You know, she dances while his father plays guitar
She's suddenly beautiful
And we all want something beautiful
And I wish I was beautiful, la la la la

Oh, cut up, Maria
Come on, show me some of them Spanish dances
And pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones

Believe in me, come on
Help me believe in anything
'Cause I wanna be someone who believes

Mr. Jones and me
Tell each other fairy tales
And we stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you, no no no, she's looking at me"
Standing in this bright light
Coming through in stereo
When everybody loves you
You'll just never be lonely

Well, I wanna paint myself a picture
I wanna paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
All the beautiful colors
Are very, very meaningful

Yeah, you know gray, it's my favorite color
I just get so confused every day
But if I knew Picasso
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play

Mr. Jones and me, oh
Look into the future
We stare at all the beautiful women
"Yeah, but she's looking at you, I don't think so, she's lookin' at me"
Standing in the spotlight
Look at me, I, I got myself this gray guitar, man
When everybody loves me
I hope I never get lonely, aaah

Yeah, I wanna be a lion
I know, I know, everybody wants to pass as cats
We, we all wanna be big, big, big, big, big stars
Yeah, but then we'd get second thoughts about that

So believe in me, man
I don't believe in anything
And I don't wanna be someone
To believe, you should not believe in me

'Cause Mr. Jones and me
Went stumbling through the barrio
We stare at all the beautiful women
"Hey man, she's perfect for you, there's got to be someone for me"

I wanna be Bob Dylan
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
Well, man, when everybody loves you
So Tom, that's just about as fucked up as you can be

Well, can't you hear me
'Cause I'm screamin'
But I did not go outside
Yesterday

Oh, don't wake me
'Cause I was dreamin'
And I might just stay inside, yeah
Today

'Cause Mr. Jones and me
We don't see each other much anymore

Rain King

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
'Cause I've been here before
And I deserve a little more

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

I said "mama, mama
Why am I so alone?"
I can't go outside 'cause I'm scared that I might not make it home
I'm alive
I'm sinking in
"If there's anyone at home at your place, darling, please, invite me in"

Don't try to bleed me
Because I've been there before
And I deserve a little more

I belong in the service of the Queen
I belong anywhere but in between
She's been lying, I just keep sinking
And I am the rain King

And I only want the same as anyone
Mr. Henderson just keeps waiting for the sun
Oh, it seems night endlessly begins and ends and ends and begins and ends
After all the dreaming, I just wanna come back home again

Somewhere, there are little (????) fish that says
"You gonna sink" and now that I went underground, and I'm gonna let 'em there
And he does to me if so, yeah
I said there's very little bit of fun in loneliness
And every little thing that endlessly confuses me
Has to knows you well, I said

But when I really wanna think of Heaven
Hmmm, said when I think of Heaven
Hmmm, no, when I think of Heaven
I think of you, do you think of me?

I said when I think of Heaven
Deliver me in a black-winged bird
So come on, come on, I think of dying
Well, come on and lay me down in a field of flame and heather
Just render up my body into the burning heart of God
In the belly of a black-winged bird

Don't try to bleed me
'Cause I've been there before
And I deserve a little more

I belong in the service of the Queen
I belong anywhere but in between
She's been dying, I've been drinking
And I am the rain King

I said that I am the rain King
Oh, I said goodnight Elisabeth
I'm so sorry now
But I am the rain King

So why don't you come in out of the rain?

Mercury

She is trapped inside a month of gray
And they take a little every day
She is a victim of her own responses, shackled to a heart that wants to settle
And then runs away
It's a sin to be fading endlessly
Yeah, but she's alright with me

Oh, she's leaving on a walkaway
She is leaving me in disarray
In the absence of a place to be, she stands there, looking back at me
Hesitates, and then turns away
She'll change so suddenly, she's just like mercury
Yeah, but she's alright with me

Yeah

Save some sorrow in your hearts and minds
For the things that die before their time
For the restlessly abandoned homes, the tired and weary rambler's bones
And stay beside me where I lie
'Cause she's entwined in me, crazy as can be
Yeah, but she's alright with me

Oh, she's alright
She's alright with me
She's alright with me
Yeah, she's alright with me

Ghost Train

I took the cannonball down to the ocean
Across the desert from the sea to shining sea
I rode a ladder that climbed across the nation
Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me

"Well, how do you do?"
She said "hey, how do you do?"

She buys a ticket, 'cause it's cold where she comes from
And she climbs aboard, 'cause she's scared of getting older in the snow
Love is a ghost train, just rumbling through the darkness
Oh, just hold on to me, darling, I got nowhere else to go

"Well, how do you do?"
She said "hey, how do you do?"
Well, isn't everyone gone?

I took the cannonball down to the ocean
Then watched the diesel disappear beneath the tumbling waves
But love is a ghost train howling on the radio
"Remember everything", she said, "'cause sometimes, just a memory remains"

"Well how, how do you do?"
She said "hey, how do you do?"
"Hey, how do you do?"
She said "hey, how do you do?"

Anna Begins

- We're playing some of these electric songs because they change so much, and because I think we really know how to play them now, so this is... this is "Anna Begins".

My friend assures me
She says "it's all or nothing"
But I'm not worried
I am not overly concerned

My friend implores me
"Just one time only
Come on, make an exception"
And I am not worried

Wrap her up in a package of lies
You send her off to a coconut island
And I am not worried
And I am not overly concerned

With the status of my emotions
"Oh", she says, "hey, you're changing"
But we're always changing

It does not bother me to say this isn't love
'Cause if you don't wanna talk about it, then it isn't love
And I guess I'm gonna have to just live with that
But I'm sure there's something in a shade of gray or something in between
I can always just change my name, if that's what you mean

But my friend assures me
She says "look, it's all or nothing"
But I am not really worried
And I am not overly concerned

You try to tell yourself the things
You try to tell yourself
Just to make yourself forget
I am not worried

"'Cause if it's love", she said
"Then we're gonna have to think about the consequences"
'Cause she can't stop shaking
I, I can't stop touching her

And this time, when kindness falls like rain
It washes her away
And Anna begins to change her mind
"And these seconds when I'm shaking
Leave me shuddering for days", she says
I'm not ready for this sort of thing

But I'm not gonna break
I'm not gonna worry about it anymore
See, I'm not gonna bend and I'm, I'm not gonna break
And I'm, I'm not gonna worry about it anymore

'Cause I know, I know
It seems like I should say
"Oh well, as long as this is love"
It's not all that easy

And so, maybe I should just snap her up in a butterfly net
Or pin her down on a photograph album
Well, I am not worried
I just do the same things over and over and over again

But then, I start to think about the consequences
'Cause I don't get no sleep, man, I never sleep

And this time, when kindness falls like rain
Washes me away
And Anna begins to change my mind
And every time she, she sneezes, I think it's love
And oooh, Lord
I'm not ready for this sort of thing

She's talking in her sleep (fall down)
It's keeping me awake
And Anna begins to toss and turn and toss and (rain comes falling down)
When every word is just nonsense, but I understand (rain falls down)
And oooh, Lord (rain comes falling down)
I'm not ready for this sort of thing

Her kindness bangs a gong (rain falls down)
It's moving me along
And Anna begins to fade away (rain comes pouring down)
It's chasing me away (rain falls down)
She disappears and oooh, Lord
I'm not ready for this sort of thing

- Thank you. This is huh, this is Dan, and this is Matt, that's Ben, that's Charley, and I'm Adam, and this is David. And huh... I got (????) for tonight... see you later... thank you.

Recovering The Satellites

Gonna get back to basics
Guess I'll start it up again
I am fallin' from the ceiling
I'm falling from the sky now and then

Maybe you were shot down in pieces, just look at me
'Cause maybe I slipped in between, but we were gonna be
The wildest, the wildest, the wildest people they ever hoped to see
Yeah, that's you and me

So why'd you come home
To this sleepless town
We'll make a lifetime commitment to recovering the satellites
And all anybody really wants to know is when are you gonna come down

Your mother recognizes
All your desperate displays
She watches as her babies
Just drift violently away, away, away, away, away

'Til they see themselves in telescopes
Hey, listen, do you see yourself in me?
Oh, we're such crazy babies, little monkey
God, we're so fucked up, you and me

So why'd you come home, oh
To this faithless town
Where we'll make a lifetime commitment to recovering the satellites
And all anybody really wants to know is when are you gonna come down, down, down, down, down
When you gonna come down

Oh, oh, oh, oh, she sees shooting stars and comet tails
She's got Heaven in her eyes
She says "I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't need to be an angel
But I'm nothing if I'm not this high"

But we only stay in orbit
For just a moment of time
You're everybody's satellite
But I wish that you were mine
I wish that you were mine, well, I wish that you were mine

So why'd you come home
Oooh, to this angel town
Oooh, it's a lifetime's decision, recovering the satellites
All everybody really knows for sure's that you gonna come down

That you gonna come down
La la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la la la

La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la, last one

La la, oooh...

Angels Of The Silences

Well, I guess you left me with some feathers in my hand
But did it make it any easier to leave me where I stand?
I guess there might not be too many who'd stand beside you now
Where'd you come from, where am I going, why'd you leave us 'til we're only good for

Waiting for you
All my sins
I said that I would pay for them if I could
Come back to you
All my innocence
Is just wasted on the dead and dreaming

Every night, these silhouettes appear above my head
'Til little angels of the silences climb into my bed and whisper
Every time I fall asleep, every time I dream, yeah
Did you come, would you lie, why'd you leave us 'til we're only good for

Waiting for you
All my sins, yeah
Said that I would pay for them if I could
Come back to you
All my innocence
Is wasted on the dead and dreaming

Well, I dream of Michelangelo when I'm lying in my bed
Little angels hang above my head and read me like an open book
And suck my blood, break my nerve, offer me their arms
Well, I will not be the enemy of anything, I'll only stand here

Waiting for you
All my sins
Said that I would pay for them if I could
Just come back to you
All my innocence
Is wasted on the dead and dreaming

I'm gone
I'm gone
I'm leavin' today, I'm gone
I'm gone
I'm gone
Take me away, I'm gone

I'm gone (I'm gone)
I'm gone (I'm gone)
I'm gone, I'd leave today
I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone
I'm gone
I'm gone

Rain King

When I think of Heaven
You deliver me in a black-winged bird
Well, 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
'Cause I've been here before
And I deserve a little more

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

I said mama, mama
Why am I so alone?
I can't go outside, 'cause I'm scared that I might not make it home
Well, I'm alive
Yeah, but look at me, I'm just sinking in
If there's anyone at home at your place, darling, hey, come on, come on, come on

Don't try to bleed me
'Cause, well, I've been there before
And I deserve a little more

I belong in the service of the Queen
I belong anywhere but in between
She's been lying, I've been sinking
And I am the rain King

Hey, I only want the same as anyone
Mr. Henderson's just waiting for the sun
Well, all it seems night endlessly begins and ends and ends and begins and begins and ends and ends and begins
Well, after all the dreaming, I just wanna come back home again

So shy, shy, look what I found
Your eyes have taken me out of bounds
Shy, shy, look what I found
I'm so shy, shy, but look what I found
Your eyes taken me out of bounds
Shy, shy, but look what I found

She said "when I think of Heaven"
She said, she said "when I think of Heaven"
She said, she said "when I think of Heaven"
She said, she said "I think of you
How come you don't think of me too?"

And I said "you know, it's 'cause
When I think of Heaven
Deliver me in a black-winged bird
I think of dying
Well, come on, lay me down in a field of flame and heather
Render up my, my, my, my, my body into the burning heart of God
In the belly of a black-winged bird"

But don't try to bleed me
'Cause, look, I've been here before
And I deserve a little more

I belong in the service of the Queen
I belong, yeah, anywhere but in between
She's been dying and I've been drinking
And I am the rain King

I said that I am the rain King
Hey, I said goodnight Elisabeth
So sorry now
But I am the rain King

She said "well, why don't you just come in out of the rain?"

Sullivan Street

- Hey. What's up? So huh... this is huh, this is the last show of our American tour. Humm... and after this, we're gonna take the trip over to Europe for a month, and then we're gonna take some time off and write some songs and... we'll see you again when we got a new record.

Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street
Cross the water, and home through the town
Past the shadows that fall down wherever we meet
Pretty soon now, I won't come around

'Cause I'm almost drowning in her sea
She's nearly crawlin' on her knees
So you take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street

Yeah, where all the bodies hang on the air
And maybe if she remembers me, she hides it whenever we meet
Yeah well, either way now, I don't really care
'Cause I'm long long gone from there

I'm almost drowning in her seas
She's nearly fallin' on her knees
Yeah, she's down on her knees
She's down on her knees

So you take the way home that leads back to Sullivan Street
Where I am just another rider burned to the ground
Come, come, come tumbling down

I'm almost drowning in her sea
She's nearly crawling on her knees
And that's almost everything
I said it's almost everything

Just said it's almost everything
I said it's almost everything
Oh yeah, it's almost, it's almost
It's almost, now now now now now now now now now

I said everything
I said it's everything
It's everything
It's everything I need

Children In Bloom

Children in bloom, cooking in the sun
Waiting for a room of our own
Just leave my sister alone, 'cause she don't deserve this
She's a flower and I am a flower and we are all alone

Gotta get out on my own
Gotta get up from this waiting, I'm waiting at home
I gotta get out of this sunlight, it's just melting my bones
I gotta get up from the slumber, just get myself home

Well, all these painless dreams, I am just waiting for the sun
To open, to open up my heart to anyone
Just bring me some rain 'cause I'm dying
And I can't get this damn thing closed again

I gotta get out on my own
I gotta get up from this waiting, I'm waiting at home
I gotta get out of this sunlight, just melting my bones
I gotta get up from this slumber, I gotta get myself home

Where's the funhouse this year, it's right here
The fairground's deserted and all the skies don't seem as near
But Nicole's my oldest friend
Yeah, but the altar is empty, she shall never be a little girl again

I gotta get out on my own
I gotta get up from this waiting, I'm waiting at home
Gotta get out of this sunlight, just melting my bones
And get up from this slumber and I gotta get myself home

Home
Oooh
Na na na, na na na, na na na na na na
I can't find my way home

Can't find my way home
I can't find my way home
Can't find, I cannot find, I can't, I can't, I can't
I cannot find my way home, la la la

Raining In Baltimore

The circus is falling down on its knees
Big top is crumbling down
It's raining in Baltimore, fifty miles East
Where you should be, no one's around

I need a phone call
I need a, a raincoat
I need a, a big love
I need a phone call

These train conversations, passing me by
And I don't have nothing to say
Get what you pay for
But I just had no intention of living this way

I need a phone call
I'm in need of a plane ride
I need a, a sunburn
I need a raincoat

And I get no answers
And I don't get no change
It's raining in Baltimore, baby
But everything else is the same

There's things I remember and there's things I forget
I miss you, I guess that I should
Three thousand five hundred miles away
But what would you change if you could?

I need a phone call
Maybe I should buy a, a new car
I can always hear a, a freight train
Well baby, if I listen real hard

And I wish, I wish it was a small world
'Cause I'm lonely for the big towns
I'd like to hear a little guitar
Think it's time to put the top down

I need a phone call
I need a raincoat
I really really need a raincoat
I really really really really need a raincoat
Really really really really really need a raincoat

I really really really really really need a raincoat
I really really really really need a raincoat
I really really need a raincoat
I need a raincoat

Round Here

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog
Where no one notices the contrast of white on white
In between the moon and you, the angels get a better view
Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right

Well, I walk in the air between the rain through myself and back again
Where, I don't know
Maria says she's dying, yeah, through the door, I hear her crying
Why, I don't know

'Round here, we always stand up straight
'Round here, something radiates

Maria came from Nashville, just a suitcase in her hand
She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks just like Elvis, it's not me
And she walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land
Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus

And then. she parks her car outside of my house and takes all her clothes off
She says she's close to understanding Jesus
Yeah, but she knows she's more than just a little, you know, misunderstood
She has trouble acting normal, well, I have trouble acting normal

But 'round here, so we are carving and we are carving and we are carving out our names
Around here, yeah, I know, I know, I know that we all look the same
'Round here, we talk just like lions, yeah, but we sacrifice just like lambs
'Round here, yeah, but she's, she's slipping through my hands

Sleeping children better run like the wind
Out, out, out, out of this lightning dream
Well, mama's little baby better get herself in
Out of the lightning

She says it's only in my head
Yeah, but she said "shut up", but I know, I know, this is only in my head
Said "so did you think that you were dreaming", I said "no"
She said "did you think that you were dreaming", I said "no"
She said "did you think that you were dreaming", I said "sometimes, I don't know"

Because, because I was out on the radio, just starting to change
Somewhere out in America, it's just starting to rain
Could you tell me one thing you remember about me
Yeah, 'cause

'Cause I was out on the radio, just starting to change
Somewhere out in America, it's starting to rain
Could you just tell me one thing you will remember about me
Can you tell me one thing, can you tell me one thing
Can you tell me one thing that you will remember about me

Shhh...
Shhh, shhh...

'Cause there's a girl on a car out in the parking lot
And she says "man, you know, come on, come on, come on, just take a shot"
She says "can't you see me", she says "can't you see me"
She said "can't you see my walls tumblin' down"
She said "can't you see my walls crumblin' down
And can't you see my sun stopped spinning 'round"

"And can't you see that sky turn black and brown
And can't you see that moon go flashing 'round
And can't you see me, and can't you see me?
And can't you see me?"

No, there's a girl on a car in the parking lot
Says "man, you should try to take a shot"
Can't you see my walls a crumblin'?
She looks up at the building, says "hey, I'm thinkin' of jumpin'"
Says "I'm sick and tired of my life", well everybody's sick and tired of somethin'

But 'round here, she is always on my mind
'Round here, hey man, look at me, 'cause I got a lotta, a lot of time
She says "'round here, we are never sent to bed early, hey man, nobody makes us wait
'Round here, we stay up very, very, very, very late"

And I said "but I was out on the radio, just starting to change
Somewhere out in America, it's starting to rain
Could you tell me one thing you will remember about me?"

Said I was out on the radio, just starting to change
Somewhere out in America, it's starting to rain
Could you tell me one thing you'll remember about me?
Because

Because I was out on the radio, just starting to change
Somewhere out in America, it's starting to rain
Could you tell me one thing you'll remember about me?

I'm Not Sleeping

- Hey, huh... whoo... I'm fuckin' tired... so d'you guys, d'you guys know this is all being televised tonight? Ya-huh? Ah man, we wanna thank Dog's Eye View, we wanna thank Peter (????) for being here and playin' with us tonight... yeah... you really don't (????) in itself, it's really cool, totally, man, this is our last show, this, so... no...

Well, she comes to me at night, when I'm sleeping
She comes to me when I am alone
Comes to me, she holds my head when I'm cryin'
And she comes to me and she shuts my eyes, she brings me home

But I'm not sleeping anymore
Anymore
No, I'm not sleeping anymore
Anymore

Yeah, she tells me when you look at me, and she tells me when you're lying
And she tells me when you talk about me, and she lays me on the floor
She tells me when you're whispering, she lies beside me naked
And she tells me when you laugh at me, and then, she locks all the doors

But I'm not sleeping anymore
Anymore
No, I'm not sleeping anymore
Anymore

So 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 AM, all alone again
But I've been through all this shit before
I say I spend my nights in self defense, just cry about my innocence
But baby, I ain't all that innocent, no, I ain't all that innocent anymore

Well, I see her on the TV, and I see her on the TV, and I see her on the TV
And I see her in these animals that dance beside my bed
I'll follow you down, baby, down into this valley
Yeah, I'll follow you down, baby, but I won't come up again

But I'm not sleeping anymore
Anymore
No, I'm not sleeping anymore
Anymore

No, so I'm not sleeping, I'm not sleeping
I'm not sleeping, no, no, no, no, no
I'm not sleeping, I'm not sleeping
Anymore, anymore, no no, no no, no

I say rain, rain, go away
Come again some other day
'Cause I got all this shit
And I'm goin' back to find my way

I'm my sister's mother's favorite son
I'm lost among all the chosen ones
But I got news for everyone
'Cause I've gone out that door

A Murder Of One

Come on, let's get on up!
That's right!
So did I!
And I'm blind

Blue morning, a blue morning
Wrapped in strands of fist and bone
Curiosity, kitten
Doesn't have to mean you're on your own

'Cause you can look outside the window
He doesn't have to know
We can just talk a while, baby
Take it nice and slow, let's go, let's go

All your life
Is such a shame, shame, shame, get out!
All your love
Is just a dream, dream, dream

Well, are you happy when you're sleeping?
Does he keep you safe and warm?
Or does he tell you when you're sorry?
And does he tell you when you're wrong?

Well, I've been watching you for hours
And it's been years since we were born
Man, we were really perfect when we started
Hey, I've been wondering where you've gone, what went wrong, how long

All your life
Is such a shame, shame, shame, get up!
All your love
Is just a dream, dream, dream

Well, I dreamt that I saw you walking
Up a hillside in the snow
Casting shadows way up on that winter sky
As you stood there, counting crows

'Cause it's one for sorrow, it's two for joy
It's three for girls and four for boys
It's five for silver, six for gold
Seven for a secret never to be told

There's a bird that nests inside you
Sleeping underneath your skin
And then, when you open up your wings to speak
I wish you'd let me in

All your life
Is such a shame, shame, shame, get the hell up!!!
All your love
Is just a dream, dream, dream

Open up your eyes
You can see the flames, flames, flames of your wasted life
You should be ashamed, you should be ashamed, you should be ashamed

Don't wanna waste your life
'Cause I don't wanna waste my life
You don't wanna waste your life
I don't wanna waste my life

You don't wanna waste your life
No, I don't wanna waste my life
You don't wanna waste your life
I don't wanna waste my life

And I have been to Paris and I have been to Rome
And I have joined the London (????), all alone
And I have been to Paris and I have been to Rome
I thought of New York City and I am all alone

All alone
All alone
Ah yeah
Come on, now, let's go

I am all alone

- See ya... goodnight.

Walkaways

- Thank you, thank you, I really wanna thank Dog's Eye View one more time for playin' with us... and huh, it's been a fuckin' blast bein' on the road with Peter, so... hum, I wanna read a couple things... there are some booths down in the basement by the coat check, if you get a chance... maybe pick up a panphlet on your way out. One is by the Momentum AIDS Project, which works in New York City providing care and services to the people suffering from HIV or AIDS... and the other one is a sanctuary for families which provides a shelter and social and legal services for people suffering from domestic abuse or domestic violence. And the third is the Hudson River Keeper Fund, which is here to obviously keep that disgusting river clean. So... if you get a chance, just, you don't have to do anything or put any money or anything in there, just if you get a chance, pick up a panphlet and you know, maybe there's something you can do to help. Thanks.

"I gotta rush away", she said
"I been to Boston before
And anyway, this change've 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
And not today

- Thank you. Th-this is Dan, and huh... and this is Matt... this is Charley... I'm Adam... this is Ben... and this is David. So huh... we're gonna go and make another record, so I don't know when we'll see you again, but some time next year, thank you very much for spending the evening with us, good night. It's a nice way to end the tour. Bye y'all.

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