So I found my CD and put it in...

[timepiececlock]

God, now I'm listening to Miller's Angels by The Counting Crows... ::sniffle::. It's so sad. Both the song, and the fact that my well-worn CD keeps trying to skip.

I was really hard on my early CDs.

So... Counting Crows have amazing lyrical talent. But you all knew that, right?


I was wasted in the afternoon
waiting on a train
I woke up in pieces and Elisabeth had disappeared again
I wish you were inside of me
I hope that you're ok
I hope you're resting quietly
I just wanted to say
Goodnight Elisabeth
Goodnight Elisabeth
We couldn't all be cowboys
So some of us are clowns
Some of us are dancers on the midway
we roam from town to town
I hope that everybody can find a little flame
Me, I say my prayers, then I just light myself on fire
and walk out on the wire once again
And I say
Goodnight Elisabeth
Goodnight Elisabeth
I will wait for you in Baton Rouge
I'll miss you down in New Orleans
I'll wait for you while she slips in something comfortable
I'll miss you when I'm slipping in between
If you wrap yourself in daffodils
I will wrap myself in pain
If you're the queen of California,
baby I am the king of the rain
And I said
Goodnight Elisabeth
Goodnight Elisabeth
Goodnight Elisabeth,
The moon is a satellite
and won't you fall down on me now,
won't you fall down on me
won't you fall down on me now
won't you fall down on me
cause I'm all alone, you ain't coming home
we just settle down down into bone
I said I'm all alone. you ain't coming home
we just settle down down down into bone

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Waiting for the moon to come and light me up inside
And I am waiting for the telephone to tell me I'm alive
Well I heard you let somebody get their fingers into you
It's getting cold in California
I guess I'll be leaving soon
Daylight fading
Come and waste another year
All the the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear
Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn
When we see the early signs that daylight's fading
We leave just before it's gone
She said "everybody loves you,"
she says, "everybody cares"
But all the things I keep inside myself
they vanish in the air
If you tell me that you'll wait for me
I'll say I won't be here
I want to say good-bye to you
Good-bye to all my friends
Good-bye to everyone I know
Daylight fading
Come and waste another year
All the the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear
Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn
When we see the early signs that daylight's fading
We leave just before it's gone



ahh... Another Horsedreamer's Blues is so blues-y...

Looking at a green sky
Sun like a red eye
Bright blue horses are the fortune she lives by
She's tired and lonely
scared and depressed
Her visions of one day go racing the next
She's trying to be a good girl
And give 'em what they want
but Margery's dreaming of horses


And of course... who doesn't love A Long December? There's some tasty lyrics.

Where do The Counting Crows hail from? They talk about California a lot in their lyrics, and stylistically it would sort of make sense if they came from here. I'm curious.


EDIT: www.mtv.com says-
This San Francisco, California, USA-based adult rock band grew out of the acoustic duo Sordid Humor, formed in 1989 by Adam Duritz (b. 1 August 1965, USA; vocals) and David Bryson (b. 5 November 1961, USA; guitar).

Hah. So, San Francisco. That makes a pleasng kind of sense. I love Bay Area rock bands.

Comments

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

there's another song on the same subject/character? Or is it another version of the same song?

[saava.livejournal.com]

It's another song completely.

Lyric examples:

it's best to kill the ones that matter
render blind the ones who see
but oh, margery
takes the blade and walks away from me
oh margery
love like blood is pooring out of me

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

oh. huh. Ok. I'll check it out.

[saava.livejournal.com]

GAH! GAAAAH!

poUring.

POURING.