CLÁSSICOS PARA A VIDA ETERNA

MR JONES (1993) COUNTING CROWS

Sérgio Luiz Gallina

I was down at the New Amsterdam

Staring at this yellow-haired girl

Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation

With a black-haired flamenco dancer

You know, she dances while his father plays guitar

She's suddenly beautiful

We all want something beautiful

Man, I wish I was beautiful

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So come dance this silence down through the morning

Cut up, Maria!

Show me some of them Spanish dances

Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones

Believe in me

Help me believe in anything

'Cause I wanna be someone who believes

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Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales

And we stare at the beautiful women

"She's looking at you", "Ah, no, no, she's looking at me"

Smiling in the bright lights

Coming through in stereo

When everybody loves you

You can never be lonely

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Well, Imma paint my picture

Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray

All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful

Yeah, well, you know, gray is my favorite color

I felt so symbolic yesterday

If I knew Picasso

I would buy myself a gray guitar and play

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Mr. Jones and me look into the future

Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women

"She's looking at you", "I don't think so. She's looking at me"

Standing in the spotlight

I bought myself a gray guitar

When everybody loves me, I'll never be lonely

I'll never be lonely

'Cause I'm never gonna be lonely

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I wanna be a lion

Eh, everybody wants to pass as cats

We all wanna be big big stars, yeah, but

We've got different reasons for that

Believe in me 'cause I don't believe in anything

And I, I wanna be someone

To believe, to believe, to believe

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Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio

Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women

"She's perfect for you" "Man, there's got to be somebody for me"

I wanna be Bob Dylan

Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky

When everybody loves you, oh, son

That's just about as funky as you can be

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Mr. Jones and me staring at the video

When I look at the television, I wanna see me

Staring right back at me

We all wanna be big stars

But we don't know why and we don't know how

But when everybody loves me

I'll be just about as happy as I could be

Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars