ROUND HERE Written by Adam Duritz (Counting Crows)



Step out the front door like a ghost into fog
Where no one notices the contrast of white on white.

And in between the moon and you
The angels get a better view of the crumbling difference
Between wrong and right.

I walk in the air between the rain,
Through myself and back again.
Where? I don't know.
Maria says she s dying.
Through the door, I hear her crying
Why? I don't know

Round here we always stand up straight
Round here something radiates

Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand
She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis
She walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land
Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus
She parks her car outside of my house, takes her clothes off,
Say's she close to understanding Jesus
She knows she's more than just a little misunderstood
She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous
Round here we're carving out our names
Round here we talk just like lions
But we sacrifice like lambs
Round here she's slipping through my hands

Sleeping children better run like the wind
Out of the lightning dream
Mamas little baby better get herself in
Out of the lightning

She says it's only in my head
She says shhh I know it's only in my head
But the girl on car in the parking lot says
Man you should try to take a shot
Can't you see my walls are crumbling?
Then she looks up at the building
and says she's thinking of jumping
She says she's tired of life she must be tired of something

Round here she's always on my mind
Round here hey man got lots of time
Round here were never sent to bed early
And nobody makes us wait
Round here we stay up very, very, very, very late
I can't see nothing, nothing round here
Catch me if I'm falling.

Music & Lyrics copyright by Adam Duritz (Counting Crows)

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