Mr. Jones -
by 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 up, Maria! | |
| Show me some of them Spanish dances | |
| Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones | |
| Believe in me | |
| Help me believe in anything | |
| Cause 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. | |
| 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 star 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.. |