Mr. Jones by Counting Crows

(Sha la la la la la la..... hmm, uh huh...)
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
She dances while his father plays
Guitar
She's (1)________________ beautiful
We all want something beautiful
Man I wish I was beautiful
So come dance this silence down through the mornin'
(Sha la la la la la la la yeah.. uh huh, yeah...)
Cut up, Maria!
Show me (2)________ of (3)________ Spanish dancin'
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Believe in me
Help me believe in anything
'Cause I wanna be someone
Who believes, yeah...
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 (4)__________ be lonely
Well, I'm gonna paint my picture
Paint myself in (5)________ and red and black and gray
All of the (6)__________________ colors are very (7)________ meaningful
Yeah, well, you (8)________ gray is my favorite color
I felt so symbolic yesterday
If I (9)________ Picasso
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play
Mr. (10)__________ and me look (11)________ the future
Yeah, we (12)__________ at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you. I don't (13)__________ so. She's looking at me."
Standing in the spotlight
I bought myself a (14)________ guitar
When everybody loves me
I'll (15)__________ be lonely
I'll never be lonely
Son, I'm (16)__________ gonna be LONELY
I wanna be a lion
E-Everybody (17)__________ 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 (18)__________ be someone
To believe, to believe, to believe, yeah
Mr. Jones and me
Stumbling through the barrio
Yeah we stare at the (19)__________________ 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 (20)____________ more funky
When (21)__________________ loves you
Oh, son, that's just' bout as funky as you can be
Mr. Jones and me
Staring at the video
When I look at the television
I (22)__________ see me (23)______________ right back at me
We all wanna be big stars
But we don't know why
And we don't (24)________ how
But (25)________ everybody loves me
I'll be just' bout as happy as I could be
Mr. Jones and me
We're gonna be big stars

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