Round Here - Counting Crows

My daddy got here on the gravy train I guess my mama had a real bad start to the game They went walkin' and she took his name, round here There was dancin' in the afternoons, those days Waitin' tables, chasin' girls with the money he made It was 1957 and love felt the same, love felt the same Frightened little girl, she makes a break Into the arms of something better, round here I hear my mama call in Kingsbury Park Just me and David and a football that glowed in the dark Waitin' patiently to make my mark, round here And I remember my, my first day at school And I remember trouble and thinkin' I was so cool I remember it all, like yesterday, don't you Every time I try to leave this place Something inside says, "You can do better", round here So come with me, let me show you where I've lived I want to put my hands in this earth again Music fell like rain to the streets The Specials and The Jam, to the beat Even though I think I've seen everythin' There is to see of this world I gotta be thankful that this crowded space Is the place of my birth All that I wanted, was to be someone Two little Hitlers in an old church hall Some cheesy covers and those neighbours That banged on the walls Andy says it's time to show them all, round here Please sir, we two have other plans Please sir you would not understand What's going on, is magical, can't you see That some of us do more than dream Every time I try to leave this place Something inside Says, "Keep on keepin', on and on", around here So come with me, let me show you where I've lived I wanna put my hands in this earth again Music fell like rain to the streets The Specials and The Jam, ABC Even though I think I've seen everythin' There is to see of this world I gotta be thankful that this crowded space Is the place of my birth, my birth In this town, yes, I guess I got to be someone To be somebody, in the beautiful city This place I call home (This place I call my home) These streets of London (This place I call my home) It's everythin' I know (Everythin' and everybody) On the streets of London (I wanna thank you, thank you) This place I call my home (I wanna thank you, thank you) Daddy got here on the gravy train Daddy got here on the gravy train Daddy got here on the gravy train

Part-time love is the life round here We're never done Everything feels like touchdown on a rainy day Part-time love is the life round here We're never done Now we're at square one And we wait too long 'Til we're at square one We never done Part-time love is the life round here We're never done Everything feels like touchdown on a rainy day Part-time love is the life round here We're never done Everything feels like touchdown on a rainy day Part-time love is the life round here We're never done Now we're at square one And we wait too long 'Til we're at square one 'Til we're at square one Part-time love is the life round here We're never done Part-time love is the life round here We're never done Everything feels like touchdown on a rainy day Part-time love is the life round here We're never done Part-time love We're never done Everything feels like touchdown on a rainy day Part-time love is life round here We're never done Every-

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