Counting Crows - Round Here (Live at Town Hall)
I couldn't find the lyrics to this amazing version of this song. So I wrote them out myself based on what I heard. Enjoy.
Counting Crows - Round Here (Live at Town Hall)
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
I walk in the air between the rain through myself and back again
Where? I don't know
Maria says shes dying through the door I hear her crying
Why? I don't know
Around here yeah we always stand up straight
'Round here something radiates
Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand
She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis
She walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land
Just like shes walking on a wire in the circus
She parks her car outside of my house
And takes all her clothes off
Says she's close to understanding Jesus
She knows she's more than just a little misunderstood
She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous
Around here we're carving out our names
Around here we all look the same
'Round here we talk just like lions
Yeah, but we sacrifice just like lambs
'Round here she's slipping through my hands
Sleeping children better run like the wind
Out of the lightning dream
Mamas little baby better get herself in
Out of the lightning
She says, It's only in my head
She says, I dunno, I dunno, I dunno, I dunno
I dunno, I dunno, I dunno, It feels like it's only in you're head.
But it doesn't feel like its in my head...
it doesn't feel like its in my head...
it doesn't feel like its in..
doesn't feel...
just doesn't, just doesn't feel,
Just doesn't feel like its in my.
So she said, Did you think that you were dreaming?
And I said no, I didn't think that I was dreaming.
So I said, so, I just want it to come true, and all I need is you.
She said no, don't you think you're, you're just dreaming?
And I said no I don't, I don't think that I am dreaming.
So I said, so I just want it to come true, and all I need is you.
But but, this circus is falling down on its knees
And the big top is just crumbling down
Look, its raining in Baltimore, 50 miles East
Where you should be, no one's around.
I need a phone call
I need a rain coat
I really need a big love
I need a phone call
These trained conversations, their just passin' me by
And I ain't got nothing to say, except you know you get what you pay for
But I just have no intention of living this way,
I need a phone call
I need a rain coat
I really need a sun burn
I need a phone call
See there are these, there's things I remember,
There's things I forget, I miss you, I guess that I should.
But you're, is, three thousand, five hundred miles away
And what, what would you change, what would you change if you could?
Nothing, so fuck, I...
I need a phone call, or
Or maybe I should just buy a new car
'Cuz I can always hear a freight train, baby if I listen real hard
And I wish, I wish, I wish it was a small world, 'cuz I'm lonely for the big towns
Hey Dan, I'd like to hear a little guitar
I think its time to put the top down,
It's time to put the top
I think it's time to put the top
I think it's time to put th...
I think it's time to put the top down,
It's time to put the
I think it's time to put the t...
I think it's time to put the, naya
I think it's time to put the top down
I think I really need a phone call
I think it's time to put the top down
Think I need a phone call
Know I got a raincoat
Somewhere in the sun hall
But there's a girl, on a car, out in the parking lot
And she says, hey man, come on, come on, just take a shot
She says, can't you see me?
Can't you see me?
Can't you see, that my walls, just crumblin' down
Can't you see my walls went tumblin' down
Can't ya see it, the moon's not spinning around
Can't ya see, my sky went blue, black, brown
And can't you see that my Sun's not flashing around it
Can you see me?
Can you see me?
She said, can you see me?
I said, no!
There's a girl on a car in a parking lot
Says man, you should try to take a shot
Can't you see my walls just crumblin'
And then she looks up at the building
Says hey, I am thinkin' of jumpin'
Says she's tired of life
Well everybody's fucken tired of something
'Round here, She's always on my mind
Around here, Hey man, I got a lotta time
'Round here, we're never sent to bed early
Yeah man, nobody makes us wait
Around here, we stay up very very very very late
I need a phone call
I need a rain coat
I need a sun burn
I need a gun
I need a gun
I need a phone call
I need a rain coat
I need a sun burn
God I need it, God I need it, God I need it...
She lives alone on her private Archipelago
With her palm trees and her sea shells
She sits in the waves all day
She says she's scared of dying
Well I am scared of dying
So she, she sends a boat out on the sea
With a little note for me
It says, why are the girls so hungry
So why are all the girls so hungry?
And why are all the boys so lonely?
And why can't anybody see me?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
The lyrics in this version make me feel that the song is about someone who recently died, but hasn't come to grips with his death. And this is his struggle to continue his life, when that is pretty much impossible. I believe that the girl is also dead.
The beginning of the song sets this up nicely, but the unique lyrics in this version provide further insight.
- Phone Call = The need for him to talk to someone
- Rain Coat = To feel the rain again, and to dance in the rain
- Sun Burn = To feel the sun again, and to feel pain
- Gun = To feel pain
- Think it's time to put the top down = Closing the casket
- Not being able to see each-other
Just a theory... ~shrugs~