I _____was___________ down at the New Amsterdam

Staring at this yellow-haired girl

Mr. Jones strikes up a ________conversation________________
With this black-haired flamenco dancer
_____You_________know, she ____dance__________ while his father plays
_______guitar______
She's suddenly __beautiful___________
We all want _________something________ beautiful
Man, I wish I was beautiful
So come dance this silence down
Through the ______morning______________..
Cut up Maria!
__Show__________ me some of them Spanish dances
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
_______Believe____________ in me
Help me believe in ___anything ______________
Because I want to be someone who believes
Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy ___talles______
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 ______everbody__________loves you
You can never be lonely
Well, I will paint my ____picture___________
Paint myself in __blue_______ and _____red_____ and ___black_________ and
gray
All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful
You know, gray is my favorite color
I felt so symbolic _________yesterday______________
If I knew Picasso
I would ____but______ myself a gray guitar and _____play_________
Mr. Jones and me look into the ___future_________
We stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you"
"Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at me"
Standing in the spotlight
I______body________ myself a gray ___guitar_________
When everybody ____loves________ me
I will ____never____________ be lonely
I will ___never_______ be lonely
Never going to be lonely...
I want to be a lion
__Yeah! everybody___________ wants to pass as ____cats______
We all want to be big big _____stars__________
But we got different ____reasons____________-- for that
Believe in me ______Cause____________ I don't believe in anything
And I want to be ___someone_______________ to believe...
Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio
Yes, we stare at the beautiful ______women________
"She's perfect for you"
"Man, there's got to be ___somebody ___________ for me"
I want to be Bob Dylan
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a ________little more______ funky
When everybody loves you
Son, that's just about as funky as you can be
Mr. 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'm going to be just about as _____happy__________ as I can be
Mr. Jones and me, we're going to be ____big ________
_____starts____________

Counting Crows - Mr. Jones

the song is about 2 friends who tell each other stories, anects and
more about women their favorite things are even told about the dreams
they have and their aspirations