COUNTING CROWS - Scarecrow lyrics

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(Verse)

Mary steers clear of the men from space

Back alley kid with an American face

She wants the wine, he brings a case

To carry them on through

I said you know what I know about the bedroom boys

And the undercover russians in a pink Rolls Royce

They bang the drum, she sets the beat

They carry Miss America outta the street

She sings snowman, scarecrow, John Doe, buffalo

(Chorus)

I wish you wouldn't go, I got the arms to reach you

I am a scarecrow dup dup, doo roo roop, dup dup, doo roo roop do

Oh, I guess you ought to know, I got the hands to teach you

I am the scarecrow dup dup, doo roo roop

Snowman, sideshow, dup dup, doo roo roop

(Verse 2)

I fell out of love in the snowbound days

Riding the subway in a Valium haze

I need the whites, she gets the blues it carries us on through

All these American boys at the park and shop

Selling their memories for a dollar a pop

Ivan the ancient spaceman race fan

Corners the market on American taste

And says spaceman, scarecrow, peepshow, freak show

(Chorus)

I wish you wouldn't go, I got the arms to reach you

I am the scarecrow

Dup dup, doo roo roop, dup dup, doo roo roop

Oh I guess you ought to know, I got the hands to teach you

I am the scarecrow dup dup, doo roo roop

Punk rock video dup dup, doo roo roop

(Verse 3)

All the sudden light inside you dies, maybe you're going on alone

Maybe you go it all alone, she dreams of sunlight

Sings of smaller things

White sugar bowls and wedding rings and you go on from me alone

You're going on, you're on your own

She was married alive in a Moscow surgery

Hoping to die in a Cold War nursery

All of the kids back home believin' much more than we do

It's a memory play where the memory fades

And the pictures you took into records we played

Spy versus spy, scarecrow and I

Out across the darkness where the bomberjets fly, singing

Spaceman, smoke show, scarecrow, geronimo

(Chorus)

I wish you wouldn't go, I got the arms to reach you

I am the scarecrow, dup dup, doo roo roop

Dup dup, doo roo roop

Oh I guess you ought to know, I got the hands to teach you

I am the scarecrow dup dup, doo roo roop

Snowman, freak show, dup dup, doo roo roop

Come on, come on, come on!

Oh, I wish you wouldn't go, I got the arms to reach you

I am the scarecrow, dup dup, doo roo roop

Dup dup, doo roo roop

Oh, scarecrow, dup dup, doo roo roop

Oh, I guess you ought to know, I got the hands to teach you

I am the scarecrow dup dup, doo roo roop

Listen on the midnight radio dup dup, doo roo roop