Mr. Jones
Counting Crows"Mr. Jones" is a song by Counting Crows, released in 1993 in the Pop genre. The song is 4:18 long and contains 62 lines and 433 words.
Lyrics
0:05Shalalala la la la
0:10Uh huh
0:14I was down at the New Amsterdam
0:18Staring at this yellow-haired girl
0:20Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with a black-haired flamenco dancer
0:27You know she dances while his father plays guitar
0:31She's suddenly beautiful
0:33We all want something beautiful
0:38Man I wish I was beautiful
0:40So come dance this silence down through the morning
0:45Shalalala la la la la yeah
0:51Uh huh yeah
0:55Cut up Maria Show me some of them Spanish dances
1:01Pass me a bottle Mr. Jones
1:08Believe in me
1:11Help me believe in anything
1:14Cause I want to be someone who believes
1:19Yeah
1:22Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales
1:27And we stare at the beautiful women
1:31She's looking at you
1:33Ah no no she's looking at me
1:35Smiling in the bright lights
1:39Coming through in stereo
1:41When everybody loves you you can never be lonely
1:48Well I'mma paint my picture
1:52Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
1:56All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful
2:01Yeah well you know gray is my favorite color
2:04I felt so symbolic yesterday
2:09If I knew a Picasso
2:12I would buy myself a gray guitar and play
2:16Mr. Jones and me look into the future
2:22Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
2:25She's looking at you
2:27I don't think so
2:28She's looking at me
2:29Standing in the spotlight
2:33I bought myself a gray guitar
2:36When everybody loves me I will never be lonely
2:45I'll never be lonely
2:48Cause I'm never gonna be lonely
2:57I want to be a lion
3:00Yeah everybody wants to pass as cats
3:03We all want to be big big stars
3:07Yeah but we got different reasons for that
3:10Believe in me cause I don't believe in anything
3:16And I I want to be someone to believe to believe to believe yeah
3:24Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio
3:30Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
3:33She's perfect for you Man there's got to be somebody for me
3:37I want to be Bob Dylan
3:40Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
3:43When everybody loves you ah son that's just about as funky as you can be
3:51Mr. Jones and me staring at the video
3:57When I look at the television
4:00I want to see me staring right back at me
4:04We all want to be big stars
4:07But we don't know why and we don't know how
4:10But when everybody loves me
4:14I want to be just about as happy as can be
4:18Mr. Jones and me we're gonna be big stars
Shalalala la la la Uh huh I was down at the New Amsterdam 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 We all want something beautiful Man I wish I was beautiful So come dance this silence down through the morning Shalalala la la la la yeah Uh huh yeah Cut up Maria Show me some of them Spanish dances Pass me a bottle Mr. Jones Believe in me Help me believe in anything Cause I want to be someone who believes Yeah Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales And we 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 Well I'mma paint my picture Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful Yeah well you know gray is my favorite color I felt so symbolic yesterday If I knew a Picasso I would buy myself a gray guitar and play Mr. Jones and me look into the future Yeah we stare at the beautiful women She's looking at you I don't think so She's looking at me Standing in the spotlight I bought myself a gray guitar When everybody loves me I will never be lonely I'll never be lonely Cause I'm never gonna be lonely I want to be a lion Yeah everybody wants to pass as cats We all want to be big big stars Yeah but we got different reasons for that Believe in me cause I don't believe in anything And I I want to be someone to believe to believe to believe yeah Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio Yeah we stare at the beautiful women She's perfect for you Man there's got to be somebody for me I want to be Bob Dylan Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky When everybody loves you ah son that's just about as funky as you can be 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 want to be just about as happy as can be Mr. Jones and me we're gonna be big stars
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