Somewhere Under Wonderland

7 ContributorsDislocation Lyrics“Dislocation” is the third track on Counting Crows' 2014 album, Somewhere Under Wonderland and its lyrics are, to some degree, written about Adam Duritz’s dissociative disorder.I was an alien in utero

Somehow missed New Mexico

Fell to Earth in Baltimore

I know

Now there are layer cakes in empty rooms

Birthday cards and red balloons

And me

I know I know

I know I know

I invited Johnny Legs and Jackie O

Empty parties filled with people I don't know

I am written in the radio

I dream on my TV

Dislocation Dislocation

I am fading out in stereo

I don’t remember me

Dislocation Dislocation

Telling lies and taking shots

Getting laid in parking lots

Getting high and getting caught

I know

All my broken paper planes

Parachutes and windowpanes

I’m a shooting star gone Novocain

I know

So I write to all the girlie magazines

Splash my passion on the pages in-between

I am written in the radio

I dream on my TV

Dislocation Dislocation

I am fading out in stereo

I don’t remember me

Dislocation Dislocation

Rising from the afterglow

A dodo bird with polio

And me

I know I know I know I know

I’m playing with a rock’n’roll band on the subway

It keeps me far away from the gamma rays

We live between the BOOM BOOM CRASH

And the fadeaway

I know

Wake up the congregation!

We will see the light tonight!

The spark! The flash!

The bang! The bite!

I know I know

I know I know

I know

I am written in the radio

I dream on my TV

Dislocation Dislocation

I could fade away in stereo

You won’t remember me

Dislocation Dislocation

If they drop the bomb on London

Swallow LA with the sea

Dislocation Dislocation

Say a prayer for Oklahoma

Say another one for me

Dislocation Dislocation

9 ContributorsGod of Ocean Tides LyricsGod of Ocean Tides is the fourth Track on Counting Crows 2014 album Somewhere Under WonderlandClose the door on a short night

Lift the lid on the daylight

It's 6:09, West Tennessee time

And I buy all my days

At the same place where the girl sells her nights

To a god of ocean tides

All night long

Writing poems to California

Melodies of failure

And the people I have thrown away

Meanwhile somewhere west of Carolina

In a congregation of strangers

We are digging holes to China

Then we pray to our reflections

In the water when it rises

 

Headlights pin the highway down

Jesus spins the world around

I spend all my tomorrows coming down

Goodbye all my days

I know I said I never loved you

But I might just try again tonight

 

Truck stops and river gods

Gas stations of the cross

Following a ghost         Following a ghost

I pray the water wash away the memories and the cost

Carry me south to the sea

Along with your memories of me

We are born in the water

I will return to thee

Coloured lights and birthday cakes

Candle wax on paper plates

Breathe the water

Hush-a-bye, hush-a-bye

You can see through water

All the way up to the sky

Gods of water         Gods of rain

Cover up the sun again        

We are crossing at the Mississippi line

I tried all my days

To love you just the way you hoped I might

But I’m leaving here tonight

I can’t remember yesterday

I tried

If I said I could

I lied

4 ContributorsScarecrow LyricsMary 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

 

You know what I know about the bedroom boys

Undercover Russians in a pink Rolls-Royce

They bang the drum

She sets the beat

They carry Miss America out into the street

She sings “Snowman! Scarecrow! John Doe! Buffalo!”

 

I wish you wouldn’t go

I got the arms to reach you

I am the scarecrow

I guess you ought to know

I got the hands to teach you

I am the scarecrow

Snowman sideshow

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 ‘n’ Shop

Selling their memories for a dollar a pop

Ivan the ancient spaceman race fan

Corners the market on American tastes

And says “Spaceman! Scarecrow! Peepshow! Freakshow!”

 

I wish you wouldn’t go

But I got the arms to reach you

I am a scarecrow

I guess you ought to know

That I got the hands to teach you

I am the scarecrow

Punk rock video

All the sudden light inside you dies

Maybe you’re going on alone

Maybe you’re going all alone

She dreams of sunlight

Sings of smaller things

White sugar bowls and wedding rings

You’re going 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 believe in much more than we do

 

It’s a memory play where the memory fades

Into pictures you took

Into records we played

Spy vs Spy

Scarecrow and I

Out across the darkness where the bomberjets fly

Singing “Spaceman! Smokeshow! Scarecrow! Geronimo!”

 

I wish you wouldn’t go

I got the arms to reach you

I am a scarecrow

I guess you ought to know

I got the hands to teach you

I am the scarecrow

Snowman Freakshow

I wish you wouldn’t go

But I got the arms to reach you

I am the scarecrow

I guess you ought to know

That I got the hands to teach you

I am the scarecrow

Listen on the midnight radio

13 ContributorsJohn Appleseed’s Lament LyricsVerified Song Bio (written by the artist):

This song was originally entitled “A Prayer For Johnny Appleseed”. It’s probably my favorite lyric on the album and one of my all-time faves among my songs.I stepped out the front door into winter and the world outside

I stepped out the door to New York City

My hair was barely dry

I could not remember where I was going

So I went back inside

Nothing’s happening in the elevator

Nothing happening on the stairs

Nothing ever happens when I am sleeping

So I cannot stay there

How do you find the parties when you’re in your room?

How do you find the action?

Man, the action is everywhere

If you decide to climb outside your bedroom window

Paint a picture on a cloud

If you decide that you can’t hide inside

Your mind provides a slide to get you out

It feels just like you're falling when you're going down

But everybody loves you when you hit the ground

Well, I say a prayer, I say a prayer

I say a prayer to Pocahontas

I pray to John Appleseed

Oh, I cigarette the winter air

And then I Fred Astaire my way down 7th Street

Some chick yells, "Jesus loves me more than I know

But less than I need"

I parade down The Bowery to The Battery

And then I step off into the air

Point my sunglasses east toward Jerusalem

And then follow all the Pharaohs there

They’re building pyramids in Leicester Square

Driving in circles round the Circus til the circle’s in the air

My love says “Come on Adam

Tell me what the hell is wrong with you"

She says "Come on Adam

What the hell am I supposed to do?"

She says "I could love you, I could leave you

But I can't live w/what you put me through”

I call the wind Maria because I do not know her face

I call the endless sky Amelia

Because she stays with me from place to place

I call the sun my love Emmanuelle

Because she cradled me in her embrace

Nothing happening in the kitchen

Nothing happening on the floor

Nothing happening in my bed

But she don’t sleep there no more

How do you find the bottom when you’re in the air?

How do you find the circus?

Man, the circus is everywhere

18 ContributorsPossibility Days LyricsA song about a lost love and a man reminiscing the times he spent with her and the night she had to leave.It was a cold 3 a.m. at JFK

I guess you stayed because you wanted to stay

And we went from zero to everything all in a day

And then Kennedy took you away

I thought of a short robe that was keeping you warm

And the moments that make up your life 'til you wake up

You sit on a swing in the dark with a girl

And she tells you she wanted to kiss you

And you know The worst part of a good day

Is hearing yourself say goodbye to one more possibility day

It goes on and on

I go west but your weather has changed

You’re just scared

I mistake it for strange

When you want me to leave

Then you start to believe I should stay

But I gotta get out of LA

It seems like the short days are over

'Cause you just don't sleep in the daylight so I don't sit up nights

I lie on my back on the top of a hill

And your body is breaking the sky

Cause you're shaking

And the worst part of a good day is knowing it's slipping away

That's one more possibility day that is gone

We were waiting for winter this year

But you came and it never appeared

Me and you, we know too many reasons

For people and seasons that pass like they weren't even here

Now “Living in smiles is better”, you say

But we carry the burdens of all of our days

So I'm scared that you'll leave and you're scared that I'll stay

It's an impossibility day

And we only saw half the ballet

I said goodnight, goodbye

It seems like a good thing so you know it’s a good lie

You can run out of choices

And still hear a voice in your head when you're lying in bed

And it says that the best part of a bad day is knowing it's okay

The color of everything changes

The sky rearranges its shade and your smile doesn't fade

Into a phone call and one bad decision we made

And the worst part of a good day is the one thing you don't say

And you don't know how but you wish there was some way

So you pull down the shades and you shut off the lights

Because somehow we mixed up "Goodbye" and "Goodnight"

And the one thing you won't say is

"Everyone knows possibility days are impossible."

It just feels wrong

So wrong

Still you're gone

Long gone