Counting Crows - Recovering the Satellites

Catapult
      All of the sudden she disappears
      just yesterday she was here
      somebody tell me if I am sleeping
      someone should be with me here
      (cause I don't wanna be alone)

      I wanna be the knife that cuts into my hand
      and I wanna be scattered from here in this catapult
      What a big baby         won't somebody save me please
      You won't find nobody home

      all of these quiet battered voices
      wait for the hunger to come
      we got little revolvers and stupid choices
      and no one to say when we're done
      (Well I don't wanna bring you down)

      I wanna be the light that burns out your eyes
      `cause I know there's little things about me
      that would sing in the silence of so much rejection
      in every connection I make
      I can't find nobody home
      I wanna be the last thing you hear when you're falling asleep....
Angels of the Silences
Well I guess you left me with some feathers in my hand
      Did it make it any easier to leave me where I stand?
      I guess there might not be too many who would stand beside you now
      Where'd you come from?       Where am I going?
      Why'd you leave me 'till I'm only good for...

      Waiting for you
      All my sins...
      I said that I would pay for them if I could come back to you
      All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming

      Every night these silhouettes appear above my head
      Little angels of the silences that climb into my bed and whisper
      Every time I fall asleep       Every time I dream
      "Did you come?       Would you lie?
      Why'd you leave us 'till we're only good for...

      Waiting for you"
      All my sins...
      I said that I would pay for them if I could come back to you
      All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming

      I dream of Michelangelo when I'm lying in my bed
      Little angels hang above my head and read me like an open book
      Suck my blood       break my nerve       offer me their arms
      Well, I will not be an enemy of anything
      I'll only stand here

      Waiting for you
      All my sins...
      I said that I would pay for them if I could come back to you
      All my innocence is wasted on the dead and dreaming
Daylight Fading
     Waiting for the moon to come and light me up inside
      And I am waiting for the telephone to tell me I'm alive
      Well I heard you let somebody get their fingers into you
      It's getting cold in California
      I guess I'll be leaving soon

      Daylight fading
      Come and waste another year
      All the the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear
      Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn
      When we see the early signs that daylight's fading
      We leave just before it's gone

      She said "everybody loves you,"
      she says, "everybody cares"
      But all the things I keep inside myself
      they vanish in the air
      If you tell me that you'll wait for me
      I'll say I won't be here
      I want to say goodbye to you
      Goodbye to all my friends
      Goodbye to everyone I know

      Daylight fading
      Come and waste another year
      All the the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear
      Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn
      When we see the early signs that daylight's fading
      We leave just before it's gone
I'm Not Sleeping
        She comes to me at night when I'm sleeping
        She comes to me when I'm alone
        She comes to me       She holds my head when I'm crying
        She comes to me       She shuts my eyes
        She brings me home
        But I'm not sleeping anymore
        She tells me when you look at me       She tells me when you're lying
        She tells me when you talk about me She lays me on the floor
        She tells me when you're whispering She lies beside me naked
        She tells me when you laugh at me
        and she locks all the doors
        But I'm not sleeping anymore
        1-2-3-4-5-6-7a.m.
        All alone again
        But I've been through all this shit before
        Spend my nights in self defense
        Cry about my innocence
        But I ain't all that innocent anymore
        I see her on the TV       I see her in the movies
        I see her in these animals that dance inside my head
        I'll follow you down baby       Down into this valley
        I'll follow you down baby       But I won't come up again
        But I'm not sleeping anymore
Goodnight Elisabeth
      i was wasted in the afternoon
      waiting on a train
      i woke up in pieces and elisabeth had disappeared again
      i wish you were inside of me
      i hope that you're ok
      i hope you're resting quietly
      i just wanted to say

      goodnight elisabeth

      we couldn't all be cowboys
      so some of us are clowns
      and some of us are dancers on the midway
      we roam from town to town
      i hope that everybody can find a little flame
      me, i say my prayers,
      then i just light myself on fire
      and i walk out on the wire once again
      and i say

      goodnight elisabeth

      i will wait for you in Baton Rouge
      i'll miss you down in New Orleans
      i'll wait for you while she slips in something comfortable
      and i'll miss you when i'm slipping in between
      if you wrap yourself in daffodils
      i will wrap myself in pain
      and if you're the queen of california
      baby i am the king of the rain
      and i say

      goodnight elisabeth
Children In Bloom
      Children in bloom cooking in the sun
      waiting for a room of our own
      leave my sister alone
      she don't deserve this
      she is a flower and i am a flower and
      we are all alone

      I gotta get out on my own
      I gotta get up from this waiting at home
      I gotta get out of this sunlight
      It's melting my bones
      I gotta get up from this slumber and get myself home

      All these wasted dreams
      waiting for the sun to open up my heart to anyone
      bring me some rain
      because i'm dying and i can't get this damn thing closed again

      I gotta get out on my own
      I gotta get up from this waiting at home
      I gotta get out of this sunlight
      It's melting my bones
      I gotta get up from this slumber and get myself home

      Where's the funhouse this year?
      the fairground's deserted and the skies don't seem as near
      Nicole's my oldest friend
      but the altar is empty and she'll never be a little girl again

      I gotta get out on my own
      I gotta get up from this waiting at home
      I gotta get out of this sunlight
      It's melting my bones
      I gotta get up from this slumber and get myself home
      I can't find my way home
Have You Seen Me Lately?
     Get away from me
      this isn't gonna be easy
      but I don't need you
      believe me
      you got a piece of me
      but it's just a little piece of me
      and I don't need anyone
      and these days I feel like I'm fading away
      like sometimes when I hear myself on the radio

      Have you seen me lately?

      I was out on the radio starting to change
      somewhere out in America
      it's starting to rain
      could you tell me the things you remember about me
      and have you seen me lately?

      I remember me
      and all the little things
      that make up a memory
      like she said she loved to watch me sleep
      like she said,
      "it's the breathing
      it's the breathing in and out and in and..."

      Have you seen me lately?
Miller's Angels
      Miller's angels in black and white
      Welcome everyone in
      Children dreaming of wrong and right
      Wrapped in grace and in sin

      They come out of the blue sky
      They come out of the blue
      They come out of the blue sky 
      But you never know where they're gonna go
      Hey romeo

      Miller's fingers are traveling down the length of her thigh
      But Miller's mind is still wandering
      Staring up at the sky

      They come out of the blue sky
      They come out of the blue
      They come out of the blue sky
      But you never know where they're gonna go
      Hey romeo

      Don't come around here

      Miller's angels are hovering in between the earth and the sun
      In the shadow of god's unwavering love 
      I am a fortunate son

      They come out of the blue sky
      They come out of the blue
      They come out of the blue sky
      But you never know where they're gonna go
      Hey romeo
Another Horsedreamer's Blues
      Margery's dreaming of the middle of the day
      Tiyuri to win
      Perfect Dozen to place
      money is the matter that's been on her mind
      time ticks by her one race at a time

      She's tryin' to be a good girl
      And give 'em what they want
      But Margery's dreaming of horses

      Lookin' at a green sky
      Sun like a red eye
      Bright blue horses are the fortune she lives by
      She's tired and lonely
      Scared and depressed
      Her visions of one day go racing the next

      She's trying to be a good girl
      And give 'em what they want
      But Margery's dreaming of horses

      Margie doesn't say anything all the way home
      So afraid she'll awake to find she's all alone

      Margery's wingspan's all feathers and coke cans, and
      TV dinners and letters she won't send, and
      Every race night is shot through with sunlight
      Trying to hit the big one one last time tonight for...
      Drunken fathers and stupid mothers and
      Boys who can't tell one girl from another
      So she takes her pills
      Careful and round
      One of these days she's gonna throw the whole bottle down

      But she's trying to be a good girl
      And give 'em what they want
      But Margery's dreaming of...

      Trying to be a good girl
      And give 'em what they want 
      But Margery's dreaming of horses
Recovering the Satellites
      Gonna get back to basics
      Guess I'll start it up again
      I'm fallin' from the ceiling
      You're falling from the sky now and then

      Maybe you were shot down in pieces
      Maybe I slipped in between
      But we were gonna be the wildest people they ever hoped to see
      Just you and me

      So why'd you come home to this sleepless town
      It's a lifetime commitment
      Recovering the satellites
      All anybody really wants to know is...
      when you gonna come down

      Your mother recognizes all you're desperate displays
      and she watches as her babies drift violently away
      'til they see themselves in telescopes
      Do you see yourself in me?
      We're such crazy babies, little monkey
      We're so fucked up, you and me

      So why'd you come home to this faithless town
      Where we make a lifetime commitment
      to recovering the satellites
      and all anybody really wants to know is...
      when are you gonna come down

      She sees shooting stars and comet tails
      She's got heaven in her eyes
      She says I don't need to be an angel
      But I'm nothing if I'm not this high

      But we only stay in orbit
      For a moment of time
      And then you're everybody's satellite
      I wish that you were mine
Monkey
      All dressed up
      No place to go
      Hey monkey, when you gonna show your face around me?
      I know all the wrongs and rights
      And I just want a little light to fall on me

      Hey monkey, where you been?
      This lonely spiral I've been in
      Hey monkey, when can we begin?
      Hey monkey, where you been?

      We'll I'm all messed up
      That's nothing new
      Hey monkey, when you open up your blue eyes,
      I don't know if I'm wide awake or dreaming
      But all I ever need is everything

      Hey monkey, where you been?
      This lonely spiral I've been in
      Hey monkey, when can we begin?
      Hey monkey, where you been?

      Just get the world off your shoulders
      and close your pretty blue eyes
      Hey monkey, what's life without an occasional surprise?

      Got nowhere but home to go
      Got Ben Folds on my radio right now 
      I'm in trouble for the things I need
      Hey monkey don't you want to be needed too?

      Hey monkey, where you been?
      This lonely spiral I've been in
      Hey monkey, when can we begin?
      Hey monkey, where you been?
Mercury
      She is trapped inside a month of grey
      And they take a little every day
      She is a victim of her own responses
      Shackled to a heart that wants to settle
      And then runs away
      It's a sin to be fading endlessly
      Yeah, but she's alright with me

      She is leaving on a walkaway
      She is leaving me in disarray
      In the absence of a place to be
      She stands there looking back at me
      Hesitates, and then turns away
      She'll change so suddenly
      She's just like mercury
      Yeah, but she's alright with me

      Keep some sorrow in your hearts and minds
      For the things that die before their time
      For the restlessly abandoned homes
      The tired and weary rambler's bones
      And stay beside me where I lie
      She's entwined in me
      Crazy as can be
      Yeah, but she's alright with me
A Long December
      A long December and there's reason to believe
      Maybe this year will be better than the last
      I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leavin'
      Now the days go by so fast

         And it's one more day up in the canyons
         And it's one more night in Hollywood
         If you think that I could be forgiven...I wish you would

      The smell of hospitals in winter
      And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
      All at once you look across a crowded room
      To see the way that light attaches to a girl

         And it's one more day up in the canyons
         And it's one more night in Hollywood
         If you think you might come to California...I think you should

      Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m.
      And talked a little while about the year
      I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,
      Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her

      And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
      Maybe this year will be better than the last
      I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself
      To hold on to these moments as they pass

         And it's one more day up in the canyon
         And it's one more night in Hollywood
         It's been so long since I've seen the ocean...I guess I should
Walkaways
      "I gotta rush away," she said,
      "I been to Boston before.
      and anyways
      this change I been feeling
      doesn't make the rain fall"

      No big differences these days
      just the same old walkaways
      and someday
      I'm gonna stay
      but not today