COUNTING CROWS - Palisades Park lyrics
rate meSomebody’s screaming on Jim Jeffrie's dreams
Exploding to a black fist and falls to the floor
He stares up at the sky and he may wish he knew why
But you can't go back there, no more
The future sounds so crazy, we all heard that song before
Tomorrow's a name that changed from yesterday to blame
When that train just don't stop here anymore
I got starry eye on a coaster ride
Andy said: Man I need a break from the world outside
And these days my life just carens through a pinball machine
I could do so much better but I can't get off the tilt
There's a photograph on a TV, black and white and
Andy says something to you
Jack Johnson straddling on Nevada like
She says I forget myself sometimes too
But out past the doorways where we are sleeping
Well the white queen's creeping and the time cat's beeping
And now I'm not breaking, the train's just shaking
I never made it here before
And there's a wide mouth spinning the girls around
‘Till they can't take it any more
I used to dream in the dark in Palisades park
Up all over the cliffs and down among the spark
It's a long life full of long nights
But it's not what I was waiting for
Everybody's seen the horses driving down the shore
It's a miracle they don't make them anymore
So make up ladies, wake up baby
You walked into the bar like some Saturday star
Just get straight on spiked heels and needles and nerves
And you're a downtown pride, fully amplified clyde
Gintied of Asian but well preserved
Remember Annie outside your bedroom window
Saying: Come on, let's drive across to the Palisades
Keep going ‘till we hit Reno, Nevada
I don't see all that much these days
Still there are pages in black of the action stacks
Where the white queen's creeping and the time cat's beeping
And the train's not breaking, the track's just shaking
I’ve never made it here before
And there's a sky rocket turning the world around
But still I can't take it anymore
And if you carry that spark from Palisades Park
Down over the cliffs and out all in the dark
It's a long life full of long nights
But it's not what I was looking for
Everyone dreams of horses flying round the shore
It's a bad dream, we're not having anymore
Man, have you seen Andy?
Hey man, hey man, have you seen him around?
Hey man, have you seen my, my, my, my, my Andy?
Hey man, have you seen him, have you seen him
Hey have you seen him, have you seen him?
Hey, have you seen Andy around?
Dressed up in a pirate vest,
All leathers and feathers and pearls
Andy said: Look at me man I'm cooking these hands are but figure up this whole world
He said: Come outside, climb out your bedroom window
Shimmy down the fire escape and say goodbye
Come outside, Andy says: I'm dressed up just like Edy
Changing all the time, my leopard spots two polka dots and say goodbye
Come outside well, maybe we can move to California
Just meet me at the subway and say goodbye
Come outside, the cops are think we're crazy
If you steal, you'll just get married
To a girl who'll never know you and you’ll say goodbye
Hey man, have you seen my Andy?
I lost her in the cirque
I was high as kite on a lovely and white man
You can lose anyone
Hey, hey man, have you seen Andy
I don't know where she's gone
But real love outlives teenage lost
Oh, and you’ll get wet and it keeps us warm
Love is like angel dust
Lovely sometimes changes us
Sometimes we're not
Have you been aching the trust or just
Have you been waking yourself with lost?
Have you been making us up or just taking us home
It's a long wait and a long life
Cars frozen on flight
All the traffic stops and stare
On the crosswalk in Reno, Nevada
Where nothing but air and a pair of gray paper wings
Andy say: Man, I’ve got nothing to wear
We got nothing to wear, we got nothing to wear
We got nothing to wear, we got nothing to wear