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Sha la la la la la la, hmm, 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,
So she's suddenly beautiful,
And we all want something beautiful,
Man I wish I was beautiful.
So come dance this silence down through the mornin'
Sha la la la la la la la yeah, uh huh yeah,
Curl up, Maria! Show me some of that Spanish dancin'
And pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones.
Believe in me, help me believe in anything,
'Cause I, I wanna 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'm gonna 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 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 will never be lonely, son, I'm never gonna be lonely.
I wanna be a lion,
E-Everybody wants to pass as cats,
We all wanna be big big stars,
Yeah but we've got different reasons for that,
Believe in me 'cause I don't believe in anything,
And I, I wanna 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 wanna be Bob Dylan,
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky,
When everybody loves you, oh, son,
That's just' bout as funky as you can be.
Mr. Jones and me staring at the video,
When I look at the television,
I wanna see me staring right back at me,
We all wanna be big stars,
But we don't know why and we don't know how,
But when everybody loves me,
I wanna be just' bout as happy as I could be,
Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars.
| vit | Posted: Jan 21, 2009 - 09:21 lmic wrote: Also Mr. Jones mentions Dylan.... 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, son, that's just about as funky as you can be Wow seeing them in print just brings home how idiotic these lyrics are. |
| holborne (New York) | Posted: Jan 21, 2009 - 09:19 From Dylan's Mr. Jones to the Counting Crows.' Talk about going from the sublime to the ridiculous... |
| equinoxus (Sweden) | Posted: Nov 19, 2008 - 04:40 Woho... one of the best albums out there. Even if Mr. Jones is a little to poppy and overplayed, the whole of the album is quality. CCs best! |
| bachbeet | Posted: Oct 18, 2008 - 16:12 I liked this first album and bought it. But, I grew tired of them very quickly. |
| Chazar (Orlando, FL) | Posted: Aug 20, 2008 - 21:03 musikalia wrote:  What the...?I find the Counting Crows to be so mediocre and boring. I was referring to this album.....was a pretty strong first album. However, I too cannot listen to them anymore as they sound so monotonous. |
| musikalia (Somewhere (over the rainbow)) | Posted: Aug 16, 2008 - 11:31 Chazar wrote: Nine of eleven songs off this album are heard here at RP What the...?I find the Counting Crows to be so mediocre and boring. |
| westslope (BC coast) | Posted: Aug 16, 2008 - 11:30 Yes, but this is the only CC song that speaks to me. I like it but I'm not sure about the rest..... |
| Chazar (Orlando, FL) | Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 20:17 Nine of eleven songs off this album are heard here at RP....pretty strong.  |
| gutboy (hanging out in) | Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 20:16 are you with me, Dr. Wu? |
| mortimer (far from Paradise) | Posted: Jul 15, 2008 - 20:15 Yeah. It should be "Mr. Jones and I tell each other fairy tales." Radical347 wrote: "Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales"? Sorry, that won't cut it for me. I don't like how he goes "sha la la la la la"... and this song just goes around and around and has no point to it. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but in this case it is. |
| lophrequa (the very edge of the land) | Posted: Jun 14, 2008 - 07:45 Papernapkin wrote: Too whiney, cry-y for me.
ya think? and the morning was going so well... |
| nevar23 (Georgia) | Posted: May 13, 2008 - 21:11 Ugh. |
| Papernapkin (Mountain View, CA) | Posted: Apr 12, 2008 - 08:54 Too whiney, cry-y for me. |
| prickelpit96 (Hannover, Germany) | Posted: Nov 07, 2007 - 04:03 redtex wrote: I kinda figured this may follow Bob.
You won't get a kiss for it....too obvious at all.  |
| pallas | Posted: Sep 05, 2007 - 07:26 and again... Now Playing:
:) But this songs is superb. |
| Hannio (Austin, TX) | Posted: Sep 05, 2007 - 07:24 The suckiest, barfiest song in the RP playlist. |
| redtex (The Third Coast) | Posted: Sep 05, 2007 - 07:22 I kinda figured this may follow Bob. |
| aristoteles (Spain) | Posted: Jul 04, 2007 - 08:58 Overplayed,... |
| Darla_j (Tejas!) | Posted: May 02, 2007 - 15:32 Poacher wrote: No comments. . . I'm suprised.
I got your reward right here..Stonking song. Yeeeee Ha. . .   Gets the air drum award for me
:D  |
| a-m | Posted: Apr 01, 2007 - 00:37 keepin up with the jones'
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| lmic (Uniondale, NY) | Posted: Feb 28, 2007 - 19:30 thousandrobots wrote: 7:25 pm - Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
7:19 pm - Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man* 7:16 pm - Pixies - Here Comes Your Man 7:12 pm - Mississippi John Hurt - Richland Woman Blues *addressed to "mr jones" Also Mr. Jones mentions Dylan.... 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, son, that's just about as funky as you can be |
| thousandrobots (nyc) | Posted: Feb 28, 2007 - 19:27 7:25 pm - Counting Crows - Mr. Jones 7:19 pm - Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man* 7:16 pm - Pixies - Here Comes Your Man 7:12 pm - Mississippi John Hurt - Richland Woman Blues *addressed to "mr jones" |
| Radical347 (Seattle) | Posted: Jul 23, 2004 - 11:25 "Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales"? Sorry, that won't cut it for me. I don't like how he goes "sha la la la la la"... and this song just goes around and around and has no point to it. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but in this case it is. |
| rhw (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Dec 15, 2001 - 11:19 The original studio track. 10/10 |
| Poacher (London) | Posted: Dec 06, 2001 - 16:18 No comments. . . I'm suprised. Stonking song. Yeeeee Ha. . . Gets the air drum award for me
:D |