《Mr. Jones》歌词

[00:00:00] Mr. Jones - Counting Crows

[00:00:00] Written by：Adam Duritz/Charlie Gillingham/David Bryson/Steve Bowman/Matthew Malley

[00:00:05] Shalalala la la la

[00:00:10] Uh huh

[00:00:14] I was down at the New Amsterdam

[00:00:18] Staring at this yellow-haired girl

[00:00:20] Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with a black-haired flamenco dancer

[00:00:26] You know she dances while his father plays guitar

[00:00:31] She's suddenly beautiful

[00:00:33] We all want something beautiful

[00:00:37] Man I wish I was beautiful

[00:00:40] So come dance this silence down through the morning

[00:00:45] Shalalala la la la la yeah

[00:00:51] Uh huh yeah

[00:00:54] Cut up Maria Show me some of them Spanish dances

[00:01:01] Pass me a bottle Mr. Jones

[00:01:08] Believe in me

[00:01:11] Help me believe in anything

[00:01:14] Cause I want to be someone who believes

[00:01:19] Yeah

[00:01:22] Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales

[00:01:27] And we stare at the beautiful women

[00:01:31] She's looking at you

[00:01:33] Ah no no she's looking at me

[00:01:35] Smiling in the bright lights

[00:01:38] Coming through in stereo

[00:01:41] When everybody loves you you can never be lonely

[00:01:48] Well I'mma paint my picture

[00:01:52] Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray

[00:01:55] All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful

[00:02:00] Yeah well you know gray is my favorite color

[00:02:04] I felt so symbolic yesterday

[00:02:09] If I knew a Picasso

[00:02:11] I would buy myself a gray guitar and play

[00:02:16] Mr. Jones and me look into the future

[00:02:22] Yeah we stare at the beautiful women

[00:02:25] She's looking at you

[00:02:27] I don't think so

[00:02:27] She's looking at me

[00:02:29] Standing in the spotlight

[00:02:33] I bought myself a gray guitar

[00:02:35] When everybody loves me I will never be lonely

[00:02:45] I'll never be lonely

[00:02:48] Cause I'm never gonna be lonely

[00:02:57] I want to be a lion

[00:02:59] Yeah everybody wants to pass as cats

[00:03:03] We all want to be big big stars

[00:03:07] Yeah but we got different reasons for that

[00:03:10] Believe in me cause I don't believe in anything

[00:03:16] And I I want to be someone to believe to believe to believe yeah

[00:03:24] Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio

[00:03:29] Yeah we stare at the beautiful women

[00:03:33] She's perfect for you Man there's got to be somebody for me

[00:03:37] I want to be Bob Dylan

[00:03:40] Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky

[00:03:43] When everybody loves you ah son that's just about as funky as you can be

[00:03:51] Mr. Jones and me staring at the video

[00:03:57] When I look at the television

[00:04:00] I want to see me staring right back at me

[00:04:04] We all want to be big stars

[00:04:07] But we don't know why and we don't know how

[00:04:10] But when everybody loves me

[00:04:14] I want to be just about as happy as can be

[00:04:18] Mr. Jones and me we're gonna be big stars