Palisades Park - Counting Crows

Somebody screaming on Jim Jeffries' dreams

Explode into a black fist and fall to the floor

He stares up at the sky and he may wish he knew why

But you can't go back there no more

The future sounds so crazy, we all heard that song before

Tomorrow's a name that changed from yesterday to blame

When a train just don't stop here anymore

I got starry eyed on a coaster ride

Andy said, "Man, I need a break from the world outside"

And these days my life just careens through a pinball machine

I could do so much better but I can't get off the tilt

There's a photograph on a TV, black and white

Andy says something to you

Jack Johnson straddling Reno, Nevada like

She says I forget myself sometimes, too

But out past the doorways where we are sleeping

Well, the white queen's creeping, the time cat's beeping

Now I'm not breaking, the train's just shaking

I never made it here before

And there's a wide mouth spinning the girls around

Till they can't take it any more

I used to dream in the dark, in Palisades Park

Up over the cliffs and down among the spark

It's a long life full of long nights

But it's not what I was waiting for

Everybody's seen the horses driving down the shore

It's a miracle they don't make them anymore

So make up ladies, oh wake up baby

You walked into the bar like some Saturday star

Studs straight on spiked heels and needles and nerves

And you're a downtown pride, fully amplified Clyde

Gin-tied and Asian, but well preserved

Remember Annie outside your bedroom window

Saying, "Come on, let's drive across to the Palisades"

Keep going till we hit Reno, Nevada

I don't see it all that much these days

Still there are pages in back of the action stacks

Where the white queen's creeping, the time cat's beeping

The train's not breaking, the track's just shaking

I never made it here before

And there's a sky rocket turning the world around

But still I can't take it any more

And you carry that spark from Palisades Park

Down over the cliffs and out into the dark

It's a long life full of long nights

But it's not what I was looking for

Everyone dreams of horses flying round the shore

It's a bad dream we're not having anymore

Man, have you seen Andy?

Hey man, hey man, have you seen him around?

Hey man, have you seen my my my my my Andy?

Hey man, have you seen him, have you seen him

Have you seen him, have you seen him?

Hey, have you seen Andy around?

Dressed up in a pirate vest, all leathers and feathers and pearls

Andy said, "Look at me, man, I'm cooking

These hands are gonna figure out this whole world"

He said, "Come outside, climb out your bedroom window

Shimmy down the fire escape and say goodbye

Come outside," Andy says, "I'm dressed up just like Edie

Changing all the time, my leopard spots to polka dots, just say goodbye

Come outside, where maybe we can move to California

Just meet me at the subway and say goodbye

Come outside, the cops all think we're crazy

If you steal, you'll just get married

To a girl who'll never know you and then say goodbye"

Hey man, have you seen Andy?

I lost her in the cirque

I was high as a kite on a lovely and white

Man, you can lose anyone

Hey, hey man, have you seen Andy?

I don't know where she's gone

Real love outlives teenage lust

Oh, we could get wet and it keeps us warm

Love is like angel dust

Lovely sometimes changes us

Sometimes we're not

Have you been aching with trust or just

Have you been waking yourself with lust?

Have you been making us up or just taking us home?

It's a long wait and a long life

Cars frozen in flight

All the traffic stops to stare

At a crosswalk in Reno, Nevada

Where nothing but air and a pair of gray paper wings

Andy thinks, "Man, I have got nothing to wear"

We got nothing to wear

We got nothing to wear

We got nothing to wear

We got nothing to wear