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Mr. Jones by Counting Crows

(Sha la la la la la la..... hmm, uh huh...)
I was down at the New Amsterdam
Staring at (1)________ yellow-haired girl
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation
With a black-haired
Flamenco dancer
She dances while his father plays
Guitar
She's suddenly beautiful
We all want something beautiful
Man I wish I was beautiful
So (2)________ dance (3)________ (4)______________ (5)________ through the mornin'
(Sha la la la la la la la yeah.. uh huh, yeah...)
Cut up, Maria!
Show me some of (6)________ Spanish dancin'
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Believe in me
Help me (7)______________ in anything
'Cause I wanna be someone
Who believes, yeah...
Mr. Jones and me
Tell each other fairy tales and we
Stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you. Ah, no, no, she's (8)______________ at me."
Smiling in the (9)____________ lights
Coming (10)______________ in stereo
When everybody loves you
You can never be lonely
Well, I'm gonna paint my picture
Paint (11)____________ in blue and red and black and gray
All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful
Yeah, well, you know gray is my (12)________________ color
I felt so symbolic yesterday
If I knew Picasso
I would buy myself a gray (13)____________ and play
Mr. Jones and me (14)________ into the future
Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you. I don't think so. She's looking at me."
Standing in the spotlight
I bought myself a (15)________ guitar
When everybody loves me
I'll never be lonely
I'll (16)__________ be lonely
Son, I'm (17)__________ gonna be LONELY
I (18)__________ be a lion
E-Everybody wants to pass as cats
We all wanna be big big stars, yeah, but
We've got different (19)______________ for that
Believe in me
'Cause I don't believe in anything
And I, I wanna be someone
To believe, to believe, to believe, yeah
Mr. Jones and me
Stumbling through the barrio
Yeah we stare at the (20)__________________ women
"She's (21)______________ for you
Man, there's got to be somebody for me."
I wanna be Bob Dylan
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone (22)________ a little (23)________ funky
When everybody loves you
Oh, son, that's just' bout as (24)__________ as you can be
Mr. Jones and me
Staring at the video
When I look at the television
I (25)__________ see me staring right back at me
We all wanna be big stars
But we don't know why
And we don't (26)________ how
But when everybody loves me
I'll be just' bout as happy as I could be
Mr. Jones and me
We're gonna be big stars

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