Scarecrow - Counting Crows

Mary steers clear of the men from space

Back alley kid with an American face

She wants the wine, he brings a case

To carry them on through

I said you know what I know about the bedroom boys

Undercover Russians in a pink Rolls Royce

They bang the drum, she sets the beat

They carry Miss America out into the street

She sings, "snowman, scarecrow, john doe, buffalo"

I wish you wouldn't go

I got the arms to reach you, I am the scarecrow

Do do, do do do, do do, do do do

Oh, I guess you ought to know

I got the hands to teach you

I am the scarecrow, do do, do do do

Snowman sideshow, do do, do do do

I fell out of love in the snowbound days

Riding the subway in a Valium haze

I need the whites, she gets the blues

It carries us on through

All these American boys at the Park N Shop

Selling their memories for a dollar a pop

Ivan the ancient spaceman race fan

Corners the market on American taste

And says, "spaceman, scarecrow, peep show, freak show"

I wish you wouldn't go

I got the arms to reach you, I am the scarecrow

Do do, do do do, do do, do do do

Oh, I guess you ought to know

I got the hands to teach you

I am the scarecrow, do do, do do do

Punk rock video, do do, do do do

All the sudden the light inside you dies

Maybe you're going on alone

Maybe you're going all alone

She dreams of sunlight, sings of smaller things

White sugar bowls and wedding rings

You're going on from me alone

You're going on, you're on your own

She was married alive in a Moscow surgery

Hoping to die in a cold war nursery

All of the kids back home believe in much more than we do

It's a memory play where the memory fades

Into pictures you took, into records we played

Spy versus spy, scarecrow and I

Out across the darkness where the bomber jets fly

Singing, "spaceman, smoke show, scarecrow, Geronimo"

I wish you wouldn't go

I got the arms to reach you, I am the scarecrow

Do do, do do do, do do, do do do

Oh, I guess you ought to know

I got the hands to teach you

I am the scarecrow, do do, do do do

Snowman peepshow, do do, do do do

I wish you wouldn't go

I got the arms to reach you, I am the scarecrow

Do do, do do do, oh hell no, do do, do do do

Oh, I guess you ought to know

I got the hands to teach you

I am the scarecrow, do do, do do do

Listening on the midnight radio, do do, do do do