Colorblind - Counting Crows

On a beach twenty yards from the roadside Back again 6 AM far from sleep Must be 290 blue on the water It's gray to me 3 CV is all I see Green can only hold you in the garden Too much red will go right to your head But if it's all the same to you Give me back my blue Other colors fade anyway I'm colorblind three way tragedy Pantone memory grayscale eyes Maybe i'm paranoid yeah that's my problem You almost have to be when you look like me Stopped in the shade of a road sign When the sun rose like a bomb Tried to read the simple writing But the letters came out wrong It's all white lines to me But things are getting clearer I can almost read the writing in the mirror I'm colorblind three way tragedy Pantone memory grayscale eyes Maybe i'm paranoid yeah that's my problem You almost have to be when you look like me Green can only hold you in the garden Too much red will go right to your head But if it's all the same to you Give me back my blue Other colors fade anyway I'm colorblind freeway tragedy Pantone memory x-ray eyes Where'd all the color go on my radio? You almost have to be a satellite to see.

And I might never leave your side I might try to make shit right But you can't see through all my lies Colorblind to the light And I might never leave your side I might try to make shit right But you can't see through all my lies Colorblind to the light It gets so hard to breathe when you're around 'Cause your face is all I see when you're around It gets so hard to breathe when you're around 'Cause your face is all I see when you're around (I mean, listen) when you're around Knew me through phases in my life, you hеld me down through my worst Made me see thе brighter sky when all I knew was the dirt You took the baggage that I had, like it fit right in your purse But they say, "the people that you love the most in life give you hurt" Made you foolish standing next to me Even still, you're praying for the best for me I don't deserve the kindness you had left for me, look I know I made mistakes despite how you react So I understand the reasons you refuse to take me back, listen I lost a friend worth more than diamonds and gold You let me slip once, I started to think how far I could go I can't apologize forever, that shit starts to get old I'm just sick of sleeping alone, empty words on the phone I see the moon and it reminds me of you A broken soul, a butterfly that's trapped inside a cocoon I had a dream I spent my life inside a garden, it grew The reddest roses realize I should be right there with you And I might never leave your side I might try to make shit right But you can't see through all my lies Colorblind to the light And I might never leave your side I might try to make shit right But you can't see through all my lies Colorblind to the light It gets so hard to breathe when you're around 'Cause your face is all I see when you're around It gets so hard to breathe when you're around 'Cause your face is all I see when you're around When you're around Leave your side Try to make shit right See through all my lies To the light Leave your side Try to make shit right See through all my lies To the light

All of the sudden she disappears, Just yesterday she was here, Somebody tell me if I am sleeping, Someone should be with me here, 'Cause I don't wanna be alone. I wanna be the knife that cuts into my hand, And I wanna be scattered from here in this catapult, What a big baby, won't somebody save me please, You won't find nobody home. All of these quiet battered voices, Wait for the hunger to come, We got little revolvers and 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 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, Can't find nobody home. 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 cuts into my hand, And I wanna be scattered from here in this catapult, What a big baby, won't somebody save me please, I can't find nobody home.

Mary steers clear of the men from space Back alley kid with an American face She wants the wine, he brings a case To carry them on through I said you know what I know about the bedroom boys Undercover Russians in a pink Rolls Royce They bang the drum, she sets the beat They carry Miss America out into the street She sings, "snowman, scarecrow, john doe, buffalo" I wish you wouldn't go I got the arms to reach you, I am the scarecrow Do do, do do do, do do, do do do Oh, I guess you ought to know I got the hands to teach you I am the scarecrow, do do, do do do Snowman sideshow, do do, do do do I fell out of love in the snowbound days Riding the subway in a Valium haze I need the whites, she gets the blues It carries us on through All these American boys at the Park N Shop Selling their memories for a dollar a pop Ivan the ancient spaceman race fan Corners the market on American taste And says, "spaceman, scarecrow, peep show, freak show" I wish you wouldn't go I got the arms to reach you, I am the scarecrow Do do, do do do, do do, do do do Oh, I guess you ought to know I got the hands to teach you I am the scarecrow, do do, do do do Punk rock video, do do, do do do All the sudden the light inside you dies Maybe you're going on alone Maybe you're going all alone She dreams of sunlight, sings of smaller things White sugar bowls and wedding rings You're going on from me alone You're going on, you're on your own She was married alive in a Moscow surgery Hoping to die in a cold war nursery All of the kids back home believe in much more than we do It's a memory play where the memory fades Into pictures you took, into records we played Spy versus spy, scarecrow and I Out across the darkness where the bomber jets fly Singing, "spaceman, smoke show, scarecrow, Geronimo" I wish you wouldn't go I got the arms to reach you, I am the scarecrow Do do, do do do, do do, do do do Oh, I guess you ought to know I got the hands to teach you I am the scarecrow, do do, do do do Snowman peepshow, do do, do do do I wish you wouldn't go I got the arms to reach you, I am the scarecrow Do do, do do do, oh hell no, do do, do do do Oh, I guess you ought to know I got the hands to teach you I am the scarecrow, do do, do do do Listening on the midnight radio, do do, do do do

Two, three, four. I get so nervous, I'm shaking, Gets so I got no pride at all, Gets so bad, but I just keep coming back for more, I guess I just get off on that stuff. I'm thinking about taking some time, I'm thinking about leaving soon. I got some things I can't tell anyone, I got some things I just can't say, Well they're the kind of things no one knows about, I just need somebody to talk, to me. I'm thinking about leaving tomorrow, I'm thinking about leaving on my own, I think I been wasting my time, I'm thinking about getting out, Thinking about getting out. In all this time, The bottom line's you don't know, How much I feel, You say you see but I don't agree, You don't know, Don't know how I feel. I'm just trying to get myself some gravity, You're just trying to get me to stay, Sometimes I sit here looking down upon Los Angeles, Sometimes I'm floating away. I'm thinking about breaking myself, I'm thinking about getting back home, I think I been waiting for way too long, I'm thinking about getting out, Thinking about getting out, Thinking about getting out.