COUNTING CROWS - Palisades Park lyrics

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Somebody’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