ROUND HERE

COUNTING CROWS

--Radically Poetic--

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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog

Where no one notices the contrast of white on white

And in between the moon and you

angels get a better view of

the crumbling difference between wrong and right

Well, I walk in the ai

between the rain Through myself and back again

Where? I don't know..

Maria says she's dying

Through the door I hear her crying why?

I don't know

Round here

we always stand up straight

Round here

something radiates

Maria came from Nashville

with a suitcase in her hand

She said she'd like to meet a boy

who looks like Elvis

And she walks along the edge of where

the ocean meets the land Just like

she's walking on a wire in the circus

She parks her car outside of my house and

Takes her clothes off

says she's close to understanding Jesus

And she knows

she's more than just a little

misunderstood

She has trouble acting normal when

she's nervous

Round here

we're carving out our names

Round here

we all look the same

Round here we talk

just like lions

but we sacrifice like lambs

Round here

she's slipping through my hands

ooooouuwwhh..

Sleeping children better run like the wind

Out of the lightning dream

Mama's little baby better get herself in

Out of the lightning

She says..

"It's only in my head"

She says...

I know it's only in my head"

But the girl on the car in the parking lot

Says, "Man, you should try to take a shot

Can't you see my walls are crumbling?"

Then she looks up at the building

And says she's thinking of jumping

She says she's tired of life

She must be tired of something

Round here

she's always on my mind..

Round here

hey man, got lots of time

Round here

we're never sent to bed early

and nobody makes us wait

Round here we stay up

very, very, very, very late I

I can't see nothing

nothing

round here

You catch me if I'm falling,

you catch me if I'm falling

Will you catch me? 'Cause I'm

falling down on you

I said I'm under the gun

around here....

I'm innocent, I'm under the gun

round here.....

And I can't see nothing

nothing....round here

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--Radically Poetic--