Karaoké Mr. Jones Counting Crows

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la

Ooh

Uh uh

I was down at the New Amsterdam

Staring at this yellow-haired girl

Mister Jones strikes up a conversation with a black-haired flamenco dancer

You know she dances while his father plays guitar

She's suddenly beautiful

And we all want something beautiful

Man I wish I was beautiful

So come dance this silence down through the morning

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-yeah

Uh uh

Yeah

Cut up Maria show me some of that

Spanish dances and pass me a bottle, Mister Jones

Believe in me

Help me believe in anything

'Cos I want to be someone who believes

Yeah

Mister Jones and me tell each other fairy tales

And we stare at the beautiful women

She's looking at you

Oh 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

Well I'm gonna 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 grey is my favorite color

I felt so symbolic yesterday

If I knew Picasso

I would buy myself a gray guitar and play

Mister 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 will never be lonely

I will never be lonely said I'm never gonna be lonely

I want to be a lion

Hey

Everybody wants to pass as cats

We all want to be big, big stars yeah but we got different reasons for that

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

And I want to be someone to believe to believe, to believe yeah

Mister Jones and me stumbling through the barrio

Yeah we stare at the beautiful women

She's perfect for you

Man you got to be somebody for me

I want to be Bob Dylan

Mister 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

Mister Jones and me staring at the video

When I look at the television

I want to see me

Staring right back at me

We all want to be big stars

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

But when everybody loves me

I wanna be just about as happy as I can be

Mister Jones and me

We're gonna be big stars