COUNTING CROWS

COUNTING CROWS - Return Of The Grievous Angel lyrics

rate me

( Original by Gram Parsons)

Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich

and welcome me back to town

Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlor

and I'll show you how it all went down

Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels

and a good saloon in every single town

Oh, and I remember something you once told me

and I'll be damned if it did not come true

Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down

and they all lead me straight back home to you

`Cause I headed west to grow up with the country

Across those prairies with the waves of grain

And I saw my devil,

and I saw my deep blue sea

And I thought about a calico bonnet from

Cheyenne to Tennessee

We flew straight across that river bridge,

last night at half past two

The switchman wave his lantern goodbye

and so long as we went rolling through

Billboards and truckstops pass by the grievous angel

And now I know just what I have to do

And the man on the radio won't leave me alone

He wants to take my money for something

that I've never been shown

And I saw my devil,

and I saw my deep blue sea

And I thought about a calico bonnet from

Cheyenne to Tennessee

The news I could bring I met up with the king

On his head an amphetamine crown

He talked about unbuckling that old Bible belt

And lighted out for some desert town

Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels

And a good saloon in every single town

Oh, but I remembered something you once told me

and I'll be damned if it did not come true

Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down

and they all lead me straight back home to you

Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down

And they all lead me straight back home to you

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Anonymous
Tuesday 20th of March 2012 06:46
Oh boy. I have one story I'll never forget and it only enpphaed last year!I was at an audition and warmed up for the first rounds in my hotel room. I was right across the street from the audition site, so it was really nice and relaxed. Things felt great!! As I was getting ready to head over for my hour round (literally, like 15 mintues away from when the audition would start), I crouched over to put my horn in the case. I was unscrewing the bell when I suddenly lost my balance and fell backwards, half way onto my horn. Now, this could have been fine , as I'm only a scrawny little girl, but I was using my parents hotel points and was in an expensive suite that had a kitchen with tile floor. Of course, the one place I fell was onto the tile! My bell was scrunched up, wrinkles in it, etc I had a panic moment, made sure there wasn't too much other damage and that the horn actually still played, and then headed to the audition. Despite all the drama, I played pretty well!! (much better than I thought was possible after all that enpphaed!)I got the bell smoothed out pretty soon afterwards. It was a pit-in-the-bottom-of-your-stomach sick, sick sick feeling!!