Counting Crows - Mr Jones,

Intro: 
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        Sha la la la 

Verse 1:
 
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 I was down at the New Amsterdam 
    
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 staring at this yellow-haired girl. Mr. 
 
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 Jones strikes up a conversation, with this 
 
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 black-haired, flamenco dancer. She dances while 
            
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 her father plays, guitar. She's suddenly 
 
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 beautiful.      We all want something beautiful. I 
                          
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 wish I was beautiful.     So come dance this silence 
 
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 down through the morning. sha la la la la la 
       
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 la la yeah uh huh... Cut up, Maria! 
 
      
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 Show me some of them Spanish dances. 
 
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 Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones. Believe in 
 
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 me. Help     me believe in anything 'cause 
 
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 I, want to be someone who believes, yeah... 

Chorus:
 
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 Mr. Jones and me, tell each other fairy 
           
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 tales, yeah well we stare      at the beautiful women 
      
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 "She's looking at you. Ah,      no, no, she's looking 
    
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 at me." Smiling in the bright lights. Coming 
                
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 through in stereo. When everybody loves you, 
 
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 you can never be lonely. 

Verse 2:
 
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 Im gonna paint my      picture. Paint myself in 
 
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 blue and red and black and gray. All of the 
      
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 beautiful colors are very very meaningful. You 
 
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 know gray is my favorite color. I felt so 
 
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 symbolic,      yesterday. If I knew Picasso, I would buy 
           
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 myself a gray guitar and play, 

Refrain:
 
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 Mr. Jones and 
    
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 me look into the future. We stare at the 
      
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 beautiful      women "She's looking at you. Uh, I 
                
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 don't think so.      She's looking at me." Standing 
        
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 in the spotlight. I bought myself a gray 
         
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 guitar. When everybody loves me, I will never 
      
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 be lonely,      I will never be lonely, I'm never gonna 
        
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 be lonely.      I want to     be a lion. 
 
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 Everybody wants to pass as cats. We 
                
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 all want to be big, big stars, but we've got 
                
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 different reasons for that. Believe in me 
      
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 because I don't believe in anything 
 
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 and I, want to be someone to believe, to believe, 
 
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 to believe. Mr.Jones and me, stumbling 
                
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 through the barrio. Yeah we stare at the 
      
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 beautiful      women "She's perfect for you, Man, 
                     
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 there's got to be somebody for me."I want to be 
        
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 Bob Dylan. Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a 
           
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 little more funky. When everybody loves you,son, 
 
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 that's just about as funky as you can be. 

Refrain & End:
 
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Mr.Jones and me staring at the video. When 
 
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I look at the television I want to see me, 
           
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staring right back at me. We all want to be 
 
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big, stars but we don't know why and we 
           
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don't know how. But when everybody loves me, I'm 
           
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going to be, just about as happy as I can be. 

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