Mr. Jones

The Counting Crows

I was down at the New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl


Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with this black-haired flamenco dancer


She dances while his father plays guitar


She's suddenly beautiful


We all want something beautiful


I wish I was beautiful


So come dance this silence down through the morning


Cut Maria! Show me some of them Spanish dances


Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones


Believe in me


Help me believe in anything


I want to be someone who believes





Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales


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





I will paint my picture


Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray


All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful


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


Stare at the beautiful women


"She's looking at you.


Uh, 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 want to be a lion


Everybody wants to pass as cats


We all want to be big big stars, but we got different reasons for that


Believe in me because I don't believe in anything


and I want to be someone to believe





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





Mr. Jones and me staring at the video


When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me


We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why and we don't know how


But when everybody loves me, I'm going to be just about as happy as can be


Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars..