Palisades Park - Counting Crows

Somebody screamed and all of Jim Jeffries' dreams

Explode into a black fist, he 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

Future sounds so crazy, we’ve all heard that song before

Tomorrow’s the name we change from yesterday to blame

When the train just don’t stop here anymore

I got starry-eyed on the coaster ride

Andy says, «Man, I need a break from the world outside»

And these days my life just careens through a pinball machine

I could do so much better but I can’t get off the tilt

And there’s a photograph on the TV, black and white and

Andy says something to you

Jack Johnson straddling Reno, Nevada like

She says, «I forget myself sometimes too»

But out past the doorways where we are sleeping

Well, the white queen’s creep and the tom cats peep

Now I’m not breaking, the train’s just shaking

I never made it here before

And there’s a wild mouse spinning the girls around

Till they can’t take it anymore

I used to dream in the dark of Palisades Park

Up over the cliffs and down among the sparks

It’s a long life full of long nights

But it’s not what I was waiting for

Everybody’s seen the horses diving down the shore

It’s a miracle they don’t make them anymore

So «make up ladies», oh wake up baby

You walked into the bar like some Saturday star

Stud-straight on spiked heels and needles and nerves

And you’re a downtown pride, fully amplified Clyde

Gin-tight and aging, but well preserved

Remember Andy 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 Andy all that much these days

Still there are pages in back of the action stacks

Where the white queen’s creep and the tom cats peep and

The train’s not braking, the track’s just shaking

I never made it here before

And there’s a sky rocket turning the world around

Til I can’t take it anymore

You can carry that spark from Palisades Park

Down over the cliffs and out into the dark

It’s a long life full of long nights

But it’s not what I was looking for

Everybody 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

Have you seen him, have you seen him?

Hey, have you seen Andy around?

Dressed up in our pirate best, all leathers and feathers and pearls

Andy said, «Look at me, man!

I’m cooking

These hands could finger 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 Edie

Changing all the time, my leopard spots to polka dots, and say good-bye»

Come outside, well maybe we could move to California

Just meet me at the subway and say good-bye

Come outside, the cops all think we’re crazy

If you stay, you’ll just get married

To a girl who’ll never know you and then say goodbye

Hey man, have you seen Andy?

I lost her in the sun

I was high as a kite on lovely and white

Man, you could lose anyone

Hey, hey man, have you seen Andy?

I don’t know where she’s gone

But real love outlives teenage lust

Oh, we could get wet and it keeps us warm

Love is like angel dust

Lovely sometimes changes us

Sometimes not

Have you been aching to trust or just???

Have you been waking yourself with lust???

Have you been making us up or just taking us home?

It’s a long wait

At a long light

Cars frozen in flight

All the traffic stops to stare

At a crosswalk in Reno, Nevada

Wearing nothing but air and a pair of grey paper wings

Andy thinks, «Man, I have got nothing to wear»

We got nothing new and

We got nothing to wear

We got nothing to wear

We got nothing to wear